{"id":53750,"date":"2024-11-26T09:12:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/cupertino-city-council-race-recount-begins\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T09:12:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:12:53","slug":"cupertino-city-council-race-recount-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/cupertino-city-council-race-recount-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Cupertino City Council race recount begins"},"content":{"rendered":"
A tight West Valley city council race is headed to a recount with fewer than 10 days until the vote must be certified. The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters began a manual recount of the Cupertino City Council race Monday because of the slim margin separating candidates R \u201cRay\u201d Wang and Rod Sinks. Wang is winning with 7,633 votes, but Sinks is only 60 votes behind. The registrar automatically triggers a recount, before vote certification, when the margin of victory is either less than 0.25% of ballots cast or fewer than 25 votes \u201cto help ensure the accuracy of…<\/p>\n