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Canepa takes early lead in San Mateo County race for chief elections officer and assessor
San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa has taken an early lead in the race for the county’s chief elections officer and assessor-county clerk-recorder after the first round of results were released shortly after polls closed Tuesday night.  As of 8:10 p.m., Canepa had 54% of the vote. Jim Irizarry, the current assistant chief elections officer […] The post Canepa takes early lead in San Mateo County race for chief elections officer and assessor appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Canepa takes early lead in San Mateo County race for chief elections officer and assessor, San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa has taken an early lead in the race for the county’s chief elections officer and assessor-county clerk-recorder after the first round of results were released shortly after polls closed Tuesday night. As of 8:10 p.m., Canepa had 54% of the vote. Jim Irizarry, the current assistant chief elections officer […] The post Canepa takes early lead in San Mateo County race for chief elections officer and assessor appeared first on Local News Matters .
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