Shaffer and Kranz Cleaned Everyone's Clocks

12/4/12  Update: Official, Final Count
12/3/12, 5 pm Updated results w/1,000 votes left to count
Lisa Shaffer and Tony Kranz got some of the highest numbers of votes in the history of Encinitas Elections. And this is without all of the votes counted.

After the polls closed Nov. 6, there were 450,000 ballots to count manually. These were mail-in ballots dropped off at polling places and the San Diego County Registrar of Voters designated offices. With only 7,500 1,000 no more of these mail / provisional ballots left to be counted, Lisa Shaffer and Tony Kranz undoubtedly won the election by a huge margin. Regarding the manual counting that has gone went on for more than 20 days:

"I don't really see a shortcut for all of this. We have to be very meticulous. We have to be very careful. There's a lot at stake. Every vote has to count. And every vote has to count only one time. So, there's really [is] not a very good way that we have around all of this,” said Deborah Seiler of the San Diego Registrar of Voters.

The Registrar said it’s the most ballots they’ve ever had to count. The legal deadline to finish counting all of the votes is by Dec. 4 – a full 28 days after the election. Source

Oddity noted this last week, the count for Lisa Shaffer dropped 2 votes and Tony Kranz lost one vote between Thursday and Friday.  Inexplicable . . .

Below are the last 20 years election counts from the Registrar (earlier years not online).  Lisa Shaffer broke the all time record as the top vote getter with 15,596 15,606. Tony Kranz in second place position garnered 12,251 12,262 to beat all other candidates in 20 years except Maggie Houlihan in '04/'08 or Bond '04.

Encinitas Election Vote Tally 1992-2012

2012

15, 606 - Lisa Shaffer

12,262 - Tony Kranz

9,521 - Mark Muir

2010

11,056 - Kristin Gaspar

10,167 - Teresa Barth

2008

12,488 - Maggie Houlihan

10,373 - Jerome Stocks

9,744 - Jim Bond 

2006

10,875 - Dan Dalager

8,436 - Teresa Barth

2004

13,129 - Maggie Houlihan

12,701 - Jim Bond

11,770 - Jerome Stocks

2002

8,799 - Dan Dalager

8,110 - Christy Guerin

2000

9,946 - Jim Bond

9,414 - Maggie Houlihan

8,881 - Jerome Stocks

1998

9,338 - Dennis Holz

8,202 - Christy Guerin

1996

10,359 - Jim Bond

8,591 - Chuck DuVivier

8,490 - Sheila Cameron

1994

8,840 - John Davis

7,500 Lou Aspell

1992

8,062 - Gail Hano

7,523 - Chuck DuVivier

7,052 - Jim Bond

This 2012 election was an election year to remember, where more people chose to vote than ever before. After the official count is over, the numbers for this year will be adjusted. We will also be looking at the various Registrar reports on what percentage of voters turned out this year, age, party, gender and other demographics will be parsed and studied for clues about what matters to the people of Encinitas. 

Lisa Shaffer and Tony Kranz can be sure they have a mandate from the voters to listen to their needs.