The contested race for a seat on the San Francisco Superior Court bench pits occasionally controversial Judge Thomas Mellon against termed-out Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval and prosecutor-turned-PD-turned-solo Mary Mallen. Voters will have to weigh the candidates — here’s our coverage.
Matt Morales, a spokesman for the county registrar’s office, said it has counted “over 90 percent” of the votes, but won’t be 100 percent done until it officially certifies the vote on July 1.
The latest counts in San Francisco also appear to be flipping the finishing order of judicial runoff contenders Gerardo Sandoval and Thomas Mellon Jr. As of last Wednesday, Mellon, the incumbent judge, was running second out of the three candidates, with 42.7 percent to Sandoval’s 43.7 percent. But by Monday afternoon he had squeezed past the county supervisor: Mellon was at 43.3 percent, and Sandoval was in second place with 43.15 percent — a difference of 179 votes.
Giannina Miranda, executive assistant at San Francisco’s Department of Elections, estimated the county won’t be done counting for another week or two. She said there were 20,000 envelopes from vote-by-mail left and that each could theoretically contain multiple ballots.
