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Nick Resnick
Nick Resnick was a member of the Oakland Unified Board of Education in California, representing District 4. He assumed office on January 9, 2023. He left office on February 21, 2023.
Resnick ran for election to the Oakland Unified Board of Education to represent District 4 in California. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
The first set of certified results showed Resnick winning the 2022 general election. After an error was found with the ranked choice voting calculation, results showed Mike Hutchinson winning the election instead. Resnick served on the board from January 9, 2023, until February 21, 2023, when he stepped down. A judge ruled on March 6, 2023, that Hutchinson was the official winner of the election.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Oakland Unified School District, California, elections (2022)
General election
General election for Oakland Unified Board of Education District 4
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Mike Hutchinson in round 2 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Noteworthy events
Tallying error in Oakland, Calif., led to inaccurate election results (2022)
On March 6, 2023, Judge Brad Seligman of the Alameda County Superior Court declared Mike Hutchinson the official winner of the school director election race in District 4 of the Oakland Unified School District in California, saying, “Errors were made sufficient to change the result of the election...contestant Hutchinson received a majority of the votes cast and accordingly, is declared the winner of the Nov. 8, 2022 general municipal election.”[2]
On December 28, 2022, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters acknowledged in a press release that the initial certified results for this election were incorrect. Although Nick Resnick was initially certified as the winner, Hutchinson, who originally finished third, was later told by election officials that he won: "Without being cynical, I now believe in holiday miracles. So it was very shocking to wake up this morning and receive a phone call at 10:30 a.m. from the Alameda County head of elections informing me that I had actually won the election."[3]
According to the press release from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters:
| “ | The ROV learned that its RCV tally system was not configured properly for the November 2022 General Election. It should have been configured to advance ballots to the next ranking immediately when no candidate was selected for a particular round. ... After reviewing the election data and applying the correct configuration, the ROV learned that only one outcome was affected: Oakland School Director, District 4, for the Oakland Unified School District. No other result for any RCV election in any jurisdiction was changed.[3][4] | ” |
California Ranked Choice Voting Coalition and FairVote, two organizations that supported the use of ranked-choice voting in California, discovered the error while auditing the election results. They found that county officials used the wrong method to tally votes that did not include a first choice candidate. Sean Dugar, consulting executive director of the California Ranked Choice Voting Coalition, said, "In Alameda County, the correct setting should have advanced the second choice to become the first choice ... The algorithm and the election officials almost always get it right. In this instance, it was simply a button that was left checked in the menu option for the algorithm."[5][3]
Resnick was officially sworn into the position of District 4 Oakland school director on January 9, 2023.[6] His attorney initially responded to the Alameda County Registrar of Voters, saying, “We are not aware of any legal authority... which allows the registrar’s office to retabulate election results or take any other actions vis-a-vis the results of an election after it completes the official canvass and the results are certified by the local governing body.”[7]
Hutchinson filed a petition in Alameda County Superior Court on December 29, 2022, asking a judge to overrule the prior certification and name him the official winner. [8] Resnick resigned from office on February 21, 2023, saying in a statement on his website that a prolonged legal fight was not “what’s best for this community and I don’t think that’s going to help get our schools where they need to go.”[2]
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ The Oaklandside, "Judge declares Mike Hutchinson winner of OUSD school board race," March 7, 2023
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Oaklandside, "Judge declares Mike Hutchinson winner of OUSD school board race," March 7, 2023
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 ABC 7 News, "Alameda Co. finds error in ranked-choice voting system, investigating Oakland school board race," December 29, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ ABC 7 News, "Error in ballot counting in Alameda Co. changes outcome in Oakland school board race," December 29, 2022
- ↑ The Oaklandside, "Oakland school board inauguration overshadowed by election mishap," January 9, 2023
- ↑ San Francisco Chronicle, "Alameda County election error that flipped one Oakland race heads to courts," January 4, 2023
- ↑ Pleasanton Weekly, "Trial set for next month to determine winner of Oakland school board race following county registrar error," February 12, 2023
