COUNCIL: Turnout down for election

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Neither candidate weighed in Friday on the status of the vote count.

The turnout for Tuesday’s special election appears to be significantly lower than the last time the District 3 seat was on the ballot and 6,628 votes were cast. That was, however, the November 2020 presidential election, which produced high turnout everywhere, and this was a mail-only special election with just the one council seat on the ballot.

The final days of the campaign were also marked by the community’s shared fear and grief over the three stabbings in Davis.

Former mayor Lucas Frerichs was elected by District 3 voters to represent them back in 2020 and held the seat until he vacated it in January of this year after being sworn in to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors.

Tuesday’s special election was held to fill his seat, which Neville will apparently do, finishing out the remainder of Frerichs’s term, which ends at the end of 2024.

The next update to the vote tally will be Tuesday and include all ballots received through the mail by 5 p.m. on May 5.

Jesse Salinas, the county’s clerk-recorder/assessor/registrar of voters, said Friday that he projects the election will be