Just 156 votes separate the two candidates in L.A.'s 9th District council race
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Set us as preferred A week after polls closed, Jose Ugarte and Estuardo Mazariegos are still locked in a tight race to see who will succeed Curren Price for the Los Angeles City Council’s 9th District seat.Ugarte was leading Mazariegos by just 156 votes, 19,200 to 19,044, according to the latest tally released by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Tuesday night.Tuesday was the last day for mail-in ballots to be counted, said Mike Sanchez, spokesperson for the office.
Sanchez said he couldn’t estimate how many votes remained to be counted.Because of the Veterans Day holiday Wednesday, the next vote tally will not be released until Friday, he said.District 9 encompasses South L.A.
neighborhoods, the Convention Center and USC.The current councilmember, Price, must leave office because of term limits and is currently facing charges of embezzlement and conflict of interest and he has denied wrongdoing.
Price has endorsed Ugarte, whose platform includes protecting city residents from federal immigration enforcement and the Trump administration.Mazariegos is backed by the L.A.
chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.He has worked as a community organizer for decades and said he’s running to improve quality of life in the city, including by making housing more affordable and spending money on basic services other than policing.Mazariegos’ campaign made claims this week against the Ugarte campaign and shared images of unsealed and sealed ballots, alleging the ballots were collected during “an Ugarte canvassing operation.”“Taking people’s ballots, filling them out, and not following legal voter assistance guidelines in a district that has faced so much disenfranchisement is disgusting,” Mazariegos said in a statement.
Among their claims, the campaign shared a photo of a USC student volunteering for U...