Liveblogging District 6
We vowed we wouldn't do it, but since we're obsessively hitting refresh on our browser every five minutes anyways, we might as well! We may take off in a bit to hit some of these election parties we've been hearing about, but here's where we are for now. Updates on top, like a mini-blog.
12:10 a.m.: Okay, we're calling it quits for today. The stats are: Daly at 49.66% with 5,471 votes and Black at 39.14% with 4,312. So to win, Daly's gotta get 5510 votes (total number of votes cast = 11,018, divide by two, plus 1). That means Daly needs to get 39 second place votes (5510-5471). RCV will toss out Robert Jordan's 75 first-place votes first and run through the second place choices of his supporters, and then Dias (142), and then Jimenez (189), etc. As soon as Daly gets 39 votes or more, he's declared the winner. [There's other mathematical possibilities but we're not going through them here. Stats folks, please feel free to pontificate in the comments about exhausted ballots and the like!]
They'll finish counting the rest of the absentees and provisionals, and then start the arduous RCV count. Probably we'll get the first numbers by Thursday or Friday. You should expect your next Everybody Hates Chris column to bear the title "Everybody Hates The Wait."
Thanks, you guys, for playing along with us! And we gotta say -- we have totally enjoyed reading everyone's comments throughout this election season. We hope you'll all stay with us at SFist post-Daly (and maybe suggest a good title for the upcoming columns about... the mayoral race!)
11:40 p.m.: Eve over there at the ChronBlog reports that Manuel Jimenez has conceded. He misspelled "congratulations." Also, the ChronBlog goes with a blog post about how "Everybody LOVES Chris." (with credit here, which we appreciate.) Oh, we see, now that it looks like Chris is ahead, the Chron's going to be all like, "we love you now, Chris!" We see through your cunning ploy, Ms. Batey! (We miss you, Eve! We wish we were liveblogging this election with you on this side!)
11:29 p.m.: The Guardian made it out to the Black event, which is described as "swanky." The Daly event, not so much with the swanky, we can report. (here's the Guardian's report from Club Daly -- we think we might have seen Amanda writing that post!) They're getting massages at MoMo's! We totally should have gone to that party. Black is upbeat about winning it in RCV.
11:25 p.m.: Anger and gnashing of teeth by Black supporters. It's not over until it's over, guys -- Daly's not at 50% yet. Bevan Dufty pulled out from second place in a runoff to win!
Also, some number mumbo-jumboing, for those of you who like that (Public Service Announcement's 11:10 p.m. post).
11:22 p.m.: Whoops! Sorry we turned the whole site italic there. We fixed the tag.
10:40 p.m.: Chris at 49.66%, Rob at 39.14%. 10:30 p.m. count, 98.97% of the vote in. It would be so Daly if he was like two votes away from 50% and then Black wins it in RCV.
Picture of dual-endorsing corner store by SFist MattyMatt.
10:30 p.m.: Okay, we'll fess up. We went to the Chris Daly party. We really were planning to go to the Rob Black party too but Momo's was too far away and we have to work tomorrow. We only stayed at Chris's for a little bit, though. There's those metal parking control gates for crowd control on the outside, and smokers lounging around. Inside, it's a total Daly Dance Party, with your favorite hits of the 70s and 80s ("looooove SHACK! LOVE SHACK BABY!"). It's a diverse crowd twisting the night away -- labor organizers, housing advocates, bloggers, fun-loving hipsters, and a nervous Sarah Daly looking for her husband. There was also a small crowd at the one computer terminal, anxiously hitting refresh over and over again. We left right when people started shouting, "TEN PERCENT LEAD! TEN PERCENT LEAD!" Because we had to blog and we love you, that's why.
10:25 p.m.: We're back again! No Chris Daly sightings this time, alas. And we never see Rob Black. The Chron reports 46/41 for Daly/Black, while the Dept. of Elections has Daly up by 10, 49/39. (5,471 votes versus 4,312, 88% in). Did you guys already say that in the comments? Sorry, we had a beer or three at the parties.
In third, Matt Drake, with 3.43% and fourth -- early-conceding Viliam Dugovic! (then: Davy Jones, Manuel Jimenez, George Dias, and Robert Jordan).
9:10 p.m.: We're back! On the way to the party, we ran into Chris Daly on 16th Street (again), with dog-maul prosecutor Jim Hammer. Chris said the Board of Supes meeting today went fine, except for some shenanigans involving his Trinity proposals. He seemed in good spirits. We didn't ask about the Dept. of Elections run-in, though.
On the way back from party 1, we ran into someone going to a Jane Kim party. Early absentee reports are in, showing Daly down 5 points. Are these the same results that the Chron Blog is reporting?
Okay, off to another party. We'll be back!
7:45 p.m.: Off to get a burrito and head out to the parties! Back soon.
7:15 p.m.: Nothing. We've got nothing. Here's a link to election results and the District 6 RCV page, which have nothing yet, since the polls are still open. If you haven't voted yet, do it now! We'll still be here.
6:45 p.m: We're trying really hard to find some Rob Black news, but have come up with nothing (beyond this picture of him voting). However, we can report that rapper Black Rob is serving a 7 year sentence for grand larceny in New York state, financial consultant Rob Black has a seminar on "wealth preservation" in Sunnyvale on Thursday, and porn star Rob Black is facing charges of federal obscenity.
6:30 pm: Charlie Goodyear (the reporter that Daly called "a hack") writes that Chris Daly got cited for talking to people in a polling place today too. Daly says he was just saying "thank you" to the poll workers!
Earlier: The Chron's Local News blog reports that Chris Daly got reprimanded for standing too close to the polling place. Our sources at Daly HQ said they heard it was an overeager volunteer -- but Daly might have gotten a little overheated in the volunteer's defense. Chris, overheated? No!
Picture of Rob Black voting from his website.