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UPDATE: Kayser, Svonkin Confirmed Winners in May 17 'Final Tally'

Previously uncounted provisional, absentee and damaged ballots were included in Thursday's total.

 
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Bennett Kayser at Barragan's in Echo Park after March primary. None of the three candidates achieved a majority, forcing Kayser into a runoff against Luis Sanchez. Gary Leonard
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Bennett Kayser at Barragan's in Echo Park after March primary. None of the three candidates achieved a majority, forcing Kayser into a runoff against Luis Sanchez.
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UPDATE: The LA City Clerk Elections division posted the accompanying document early Thursday night, confirming that Bennett Kayser is the winner in the race for the open LAUSD district 5 seat now held by Yolie Flores. Former-teacher Kayser defeated Luis Sanchez, chief of staff for current board chair Monica Garcia, by 602 votes.

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According to observers at Thursday's "final tally" all eligible ballots from the May 17 election have now been tallied by computers.

A cellphone photo of the final tally shows Bennett Kayser to have defeated Luis Sanchez  10,741 (51.44 percent)  to 10,139 (48.56 percent) in the race for the board seat in LAUSD district 5.

The photo shows Scott Svonkin defeating Lydia Gutierrez 71,071 (53.57 percent) to 61,597 (46.43 percent) in the community college district 5 race.

You can see that photo in the accompanying gallery.

Thursday's "final tally" included ballots from both the LAUSD district 5 race and the community college district 5 race. That included 13, 700 absentee, provisional ballots and damaged ballots that weren't counted in the City Clerk's "unofficial tally" last week that gave Kayser the victory by 272 votes. Kayser won this time by a 602 vote margin.

This article was corrected to accurately reflect the final totals that appeared on the accompanying cellphone photo.

Who did you vote for? Tell us in the comments.

Windy O'Malley

8:43 pm on Thursday, May 26, 2011

So wonderful! A teacher and community member should be the one who represents us. We know him and love him. Yay Bennett!

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