ELECTION 2022 – Election Day results fortified by further vote counts
by Mark McDermott The race for school board and City Council in Manhattan Beach is nearly completed. In the week after Election Day, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office tallied a few thousand late-arriving mail-in ballots, and the initial results both held and increased in both the Manhattan Beach City Council and school board race. David Lesser and Amy Howorth will win election to City Council, while Jen Fenton, Tina Shivpuri, and Wysh Weinstein will be elected to the Manhattan Beach Unified School District Board of Education. Through Tuesday, MBUSD school board trustee Jen Fenton led all candidates citywide with 7,497 votes, almost 3,000 more votes than the “Trifecta” slate of candidates who ran in an attempt to oust Fenton and seize a board majority. Fenton was the race’s only incumbent, but along with Shivpuri and Weinstein formed an unofficial slate of a sort, not formally running together but nonetheless unified against the Trifecta and its critique of MBUSD. Further tallies will be reported daily through November 19. But no outcome in Manhattan Beach remains in doubt. Fenton, in cautiously acknowledging her victory, said the victory showed the community’s…
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