Vote Count Continues

As of noon on Nov. 7, thousands of Mission Viejo votes have yet to be counted. However, the outcome of the city council race has been determined. Incumbents Trish Kelley and Dave Leckness and challenger Rhonda Reardon are the winners.

As of this writing, the OC Registrar of Voters estimates the number of uncounted ballots countywide is approximately 140,844. This total includes absentee ballots turned in at polling places on Election Day, absentee ballots received by mail at the Registrar of Voters on Election Day and provisional ballots cast at polling places on Election Day.

Poll workers in Mission Viejo reported that the turnout was huge – much higher than the midterm election of 2006. One of the workers added that the number of vote-by-mail ballots brought to the polling place on Election Day was “incredible.”

The current count is as follows.

* PATRICIA "TRISH" KELLEY 13,317 18.8%
* DAVID "DAVE" LECKNESS  9,586 13.5%
RHONDA REARDON         9,444 13.3%
RICK SANDZIMIER           6,925  9.8%
BRIAN SKALSKY             6,125  8.6%
NEIL LONSINGER            6,101  8.6%
BILL BARKER                5,023  7.1%
FRED CARR                 3,942  5.6%
MARK DOBRILOVIC          3,302  4.7%
LANCE R. MACLEAN         3,179  4.5%
KEN GOLEMO               2,032  2.9%
SAM MAMOLA               1,895  2.7%
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