"Tonight we may learn if the sun will set on the Sunset's elected leader. Today's the day for the recall election of District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio. It's the culmination of an incongruously bruising and vitriolic campaign against the legislator who championed Proposition K, a ballot measure to shut down the windswept Great Highway and replace it with a windswept park."
"The voters in the precincts where Engardio lives, who were redistricted into D4 in 2022 and provided him with his margin of victory in his supe race that year, liked Prop. K even less. Some 77 percent of them voted against it - meaning Engardio's once-upon-a-time base is now irate with him, and just about the most irate voters in all the realm."
"At 8:45 p.m. tonight, the Department of Elections will drop its first batch of votes. These will be the early ballots received through Monday - nearly 15,500 of them, per the department's tracker. A subsequent Department of Elections report, due sometime before 11 p.m., will add in votes cast in-person at District 4 polling places on Tuesday. Sealed ballots dropped off today at polling places will begin being tallied on Thursday, as will later-arriving mail ballots."
Joel Engardio, District 4 supervisor, faces a recall election centered on his support for Proposition K to close the Great Highway and create a park. Citywide voters supported Prop K, but a near-supermajority in District 4 opposed it; precincts where Engardio lives recorded about 77 percent against, eroding his prior base. Opponents of the recall have raised $824,099, including $475,000 from three tech donors, while the recall campaign reports $252,840. Nearly 11,000 recall signatures were submitted in May with over 99 percent validated. Early and in-person ballots will be reported beginning tonight, with sealed and late mail ballots tallied Thursday.
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