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FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2020
Yolo County has nearly 25,000 ballots still to be counted BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The Yolo County elections office announced Thursday it has an estimated 24,869 ballots still to be counted from Tuesday’s election. That total includes 18,336 vote-by-mail ballots, 2,892 provisional ballots and 3,018
conditional ballots. An additional 623 unprocessed ballots include those that are damaged or need further review. How many of those nearly 25,000 ballots are from Davis residents or individuals residing within the boundaries of the Davis Joint Unified School District — and thus might impact
either Measure G or the local Board of Supervisors race — is not known. Currently Measure G — a schools parcel tax — is just short of the two-thirds vote required for passage having garnered the support of 65.06 percent of voters as of Thursday. Meanwhile, the race to represent
the fourth district on the Yolo County Board of Supervisors is headed for a November runoff if no candidate receives 50 percent of the vote plus one additional vote. As of Thursday, incumbent Supervisor Jim Provenza had 49.49 percent of the vote while challenger Linda Deos had 36.72 percent. David Abramson
was in third place with 13.79 percent of the vote. The canvassing process — during which uncounted ballots are tabulated — has become lengthier in recent years as more voters drop vote-by-mail ballots off at polling places on election day.
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Provenza, Deos await final returns
American epidemic
BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer
Married to an African American and having raised two young children in the U.S., Younge said he wrote about
Linda Deos was in her car Wednesday afternoon, driving around Davis collecting up the lawn signs that promoted her recent campaign for Yolo County supervisor. But the Davis attorney expects to be putting them back out again before too long: She said Wednesday she believes it’s likely she’ll be squaring off against incumbent Supervisor Jim Provenza again in November. “We’re going to a runoff, more likely than not,” said Deos. “I’m not taking it for granted, but I’m feeling confident.” Returns released by the Yolo County elections office early Wednesday morning had Provenza leading the three-way race for county supervisor with 49.49 percent of the vote, trailed by Deos with 36.72 percent and David Abramson with 13.79 percent. If no candidate receives 50 percent of the total vote plus one vote more,
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Author Gary Younge, right, speaks with Mikael Villalobos, UCD’s associate chief diversity officer, at the Mondavi Center’s forum on gun violence.
UCD forum spotlights gun violence BY CALEB HAMPTON
on a single random day in 2013.
Enterprise staff writer British author and journalist Gary Younge spoke Monday at the UC Davis Campus Community Book Project forum at the Mondavi Center. Younge’s book, “Another Day in the Death of America,” which was chosen for the 2019-20 book project, chronicles the lives of 10 children and teenagers who lost their lives to gun violence
Younge, 51, is an award-winning journalist who reported for The Guardian for close to three decades before being appointed last year to a teaching position at Manchester University in the United Kingdom. He lived in Chicago for several years, covering American politics for The Guardian dur-
ing the Obama administration. In “Another Day in the Death of America,” Younge looks beyond the mass shootings that break into the national news media to unearth stories of everyday gun violence. The book puts names, faces and stories to the horrifying tally of gun deaths in America. This tally, Younge said, indicates gun violence in the U.S. is not just a problem but a public health crisis. In 2013, an average of seven children were killed by guns on any given day.
The figure has since risen to about nine children per day. “American teens are 17 times more likely to die from gun violence than their peers in other high-income countries,” Younge writes.
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City plans road-design test for 14th St. Tally ongoing, but Measure G lags BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The city of Davis will be testing a new road design on 14th Street between B and Oak streets from March 16 to 20 and will be seeking community input on the design via a community survey. The test, which will determine how well possible
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safety enhancements and a two-way cycle track would work in that location, will require temporary changes along that stretch of 14th Street. Temporary changes will include: ■ No parking on the north side of 14th Street between B and Oak streets ■ Moving the Unitrans
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bus stop on 14th and B streets slightly east toward F Street ■ Eliminating the leftturn pockets on 14th Street, though drivers will still be able to make left turns The city is asking that students and parents of students attending North
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BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer When the initial vote tally was announced several hours before dawn on March 4, Measure G — the Davis school district’s proposed parcel tax to raise local teacher salaries up to the average level being paid by other school districts in the region — was just shy of the required two-thirds majority required for passage. Across the school district, there were 8,274 ballots voting yes on Measure G
(65.06 percent) and 4,443 ballots voting no (34.94 percent). Those vote tallies — announced by the Yolo County Elections Office at 2:24 a.m. — were “unofficial results,” and they were accompanied by the usual disclaimer that “many vote-by-mail, provisional and conditional ballots remain to be counted.” (Thousands of vote-by-mail ballots were turned in by hand at local polling places on election day, and the elections office
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