Redondo Beach election: Measure A losing, runoff scheduled for May 14
Votes being counted on Tuesday night at City Council Chambers. Photo There are still 1,590 outstanding ballots – cast provisionally and by walk-in absentee voters – that the City of Redondo Beach will not be counting until Monday, but in the interim several results seem likely enough to call. According to Tuesday’s semi-official numbers, Measure A lost the vote by a slim margin, with 51.6 percent of the counted votes opposing the initiative aimed at permanently retiring the AES power plant. Of the counted votes, 48.3 percent voted in favor of Measure A. At this point, A is losing by just 383 votes; votes in favor of Measure A numbered 5,478, and those opposed totaled 5,861. Councilman Bill Brand, a co-author of Measure A, is not hopeful that Monday’s numbers will change the outcome of the initiative vote. “I don’t think the provisional ballots are going to reverse the outcome – of Measure A being narrowly defeated… But the fact is this remains one of the worst places on the entire California coast for a new power plant,” Brand said. “The initiative is over with but that doesn’t stop a new council from passing a resolution opposing a new power plant.” Absentee votes being counted…
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