After the Oakland mayor's race was decided by a razor-thin margin, the Oakland branch of the NAACP says there should be a recount.
OAKLAND – The race to elect a new mayor in the City of Oakland was decided by a razor-thin margin.
"You can talk about us! You can say whatever you want to say about us! But we're going to fight to the end!" Cynthia Adams, president-elect of the Oakland NAACP at a news conference Tuesday. But the bigger issue is the city's ranked-choice voting system. One of the unsuccessful mayoral candidates, Seneca Scott, said it's not about who won, but about how the process worked.
The NAACP also said about 11,000 ballots were reported as"exhausted," meaning they didn't include all five choices. They believe that's an indication of how poorly the community understands the process.
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