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Chan, Chen pad leads; Preston in a tight spot

The San Francisco Department of Elections moments ago released the results of an additional 39,845 ballots. That brings the grand total of processed ballots to 364,959 — 69.9 percent of the electorate. There are, perhaps, 41,000 ballots remaining. Turnout is down statewide and San Francisco is no exception. Some 86 percent of registered voters showed up in 2020. This year, the ceiling is hovering at around 77.8 percent. The average San Francisco turnout in a presidential year, going back to 1916 — when San Franciscans helped send Woodrow Wilson back to the White House because, you know, he kept us out of war — is 77 percent. On to the contested Board of Supervisors racesIn District 1, incumbent Connie Chan has pulled out of a dead heat as of Thursday’s counting to hold a sizable lead over Marjan Philhour. Chan now leads by 976 votes.This […]

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Chief Scott put on spot at press conference on anti-Black incidents

Christiana Porter, the alleged jaywalker slammed to a wall by San Francisco police officer Josh McFall in late July, said she continues to live in fear due to the incident. “There is no way I should have been brutalized the way I was for merely walking across the street — in the crosswalk,” said Porter, a 34 year-old Black mother of five at a Thursday morning press conference held at the Third Baptist Church.Porter today said she feared that her four daughters might be targeted while walking to school or that her non-verbal son might be unable to communicate if faced with a similar situation. “It shouldn’t have to take someone being shot, someone dying, for an outcry.”The press conference drew government officials and community members to denounce a series of anti-Black incidents in San Francisco. Other community members shared stories […]

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