Third Keppel Board seat still undecided

PEARBLOSSOM — The race for the third seat on the Keppel Union School District’s Board of Eduction will apparently go down to the wire, with just two votes separating parent Blanca Nava and parent advocate Ana Quiles, after the most recent update.

As of Tuesday, Nava had 1,192 votes, or 17.84%, and Quiles had 1,190 votes, or 17.81%, according to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.

The estimated number of outstanding ballots being processed countywide is 15,105, according to the Registrar-Recorder. Of those, 14,000 are vote-by-mail ballots, 1,100 are conditional voter registration ballots and five are provisional ballots.

It is not known how many outstanding ballots remain to be processed in the Keppel race. The next ballot count update will be done, on Tuesday.

Quiles took an early 63-vote lead, on election night, with the first results posted by the Registrar-Recorder. The Nov. 9 election update saw Quiles’ vote advantage over Nava drop to 32 votes. The pair were tied with 860 votes each, after the Nov. 11 election update. Nava pulled ahead of Quiles by eight votes, after a Nov. 16 update.

The top vote-getter was Andrew Ramirez with 1,636 votes, or 24.48%, followed by Alma Rodriguez with 1,582 votes, or 23.67%, according to the most recent results. Incumbent Georgia Halliman was in fifth place with 1,083 votes, or 16.21%.