Supervisorial race votes to be recounted
Orange County elections officials Tuesday will begin recounting ballots from last week’s Board of Supervisors election that was decided by seven votes.
Garden Grove councilwoman Janet Nguyen, who lost the race for the 1st District seat, officially asked for the recount this week. A full recount, the only way the election could be overturned, would take three to four days and cost Nguyen $1,200 a day, Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley said. Nguyen can stop the recount at any time.
Trung Nguyen, a Garden Grove schools trustee, won the Feb. 6 special election to replace Lou Correa, who had been elected to the state Senate in November. The unrelated Nguyens, both Republicans with little political experience, defeated a field of eight candidates, including two who had the backing of the county GOP and Democratic establishments.
The upset rocked Orange County’s political establishment and signaled a further maturation of local Vietnamese American political clout.
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