Election results from the hi-desert
Voters across the California deserts went to the polls Tuesday, possibly at lower numbers than expected due to the questionable Associated Press decision to declare Hillary Clinton the "presumptive" nominee for the Democratic Party the night before the election. With polling done just prior to the election placing Clinton and her opponent, Bernie Sanders, within two percentage points of each other, the AP's announcement may account for the larger gap between the two in this primary election. If so, it also impacted all other state, federal, and local races on the ballot yesterday.
Statewide, as of the time of publication, Hillary Clinton took the Democratic Primary with just over 1.9 million votes - 55.8 percent of the total, with Bernie Sanders coming in with more than 1.5 million votes, at 43.2 percent.
This tally likely does not count all mail-in or provisional ballots cast.
In San Bernardino County, our home turf, the vote for Clinton was higher, with 57.16 percent of Democratic voters supporting Clinton, opposed to Sanders' 41.53 percent.
In the race to replace retiring Senator Barbara Boxer, Kamala D. Harris led the large pack of somewhat delusional aspirants on the ballot in San Bernardino County, with roughly one-third of the vote, while she led by more than 40 percent statewide. Her nearest opponent, Congresswoman Loretta L. Sanchez, picked up 18.71 percent of the vote in the county, and nearly that percentage statewide.
The race for District 8 representative in Congress went to incumbent Paul Cook, while the contest for State Assembly District 42 went to incumbent Chad Mayes. James Ramos handily trounced his opponent Donna Munoz, picking up nearly two-thirds of the vote.
Measure E for the Morongo Valley Community Services District, lost with more than 61 percent of voters in Morongo Valley voting it down. Up in Yermo's CSD, it appears Vice President Geoffrey Berner's recall was effective, and he will be replaced with Clarissa Loehr, while the recall of President Robert Smith was also successful, with Michael Cint replacing him. The Yermo CSD recall, based on allegations of gross mismanagement on Smith's part for his policies put in place while acting as fire chief and board president, and Berner's support for those policies, that reportedly led to a wrongful death lawsuit being brought against the CSD, as well as a wrongful termination suit, also led to the resignation of another board member, Sean Cloughen.
Full San Bernardino County election results may be seen here:
Full California results may be seen here: