We Have Vote Totals! Clerk-Recorder Follow Up
Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on April 3, 2013
Forgive my typos and grammar from yesterday. I don’t type very fast and often cannot go back and fix items when I am live blogging. As you may have noticed I want back through all of the posts from yesterday and cleaned up the typos along with some of the grammar. A bit of reformatting also may have been done in order to make the posts a bit easier on the eyes. Following up from yesterday I am posting a list of votes that each Supervisor cast yesterday for Clerk-Recorder. Later today stay tuned for our interview with Supervisor Todd Spitzer that we will be posting in its entirety. Now onto the vote recap:
Round 1
In this opening round, each Supervisor could vote for up to five applicants to advance to the second round with an applicant needing a minimum of three votes to advance. Here’s the breakdown:
Janet Nguyen
Chris Norby
Hieu Nguyen
Dick Ackerman
Harry Sidhu
John Moorlach
Bruce Peotter
Hieu Nguyen
Dick Ackerman
Steve Rosansky
Renee Ramirez
Todd Spitzer
Hieu Nguyen
Bruce Peotter
Renee Ramirez
Shawn Nelson
Chris Norby
Dick Ackerman
Bruce Peotter
Hieu Nguyen
Pat Bates
Chris Norby
Dick Ackerman
Hieu Nguyen
Steve Rosansky
Renee Ramirez
Here are the results from this round:
Making The Cut
Hieu Nguyen (5 votes)
Dick Ackerman (4 votes)
Bruce Peotter (3 votes)
Chris Norby (3 votes)
Renee Ramirez (3 votes)
Missing The Cut
Steve Rosansky (2 votes)
Round 2
In this round, each Supervisor could vote for up to three applicants to advance to the third round with an applicant still needing a minimum of three votes to advance. Here’s the breakdown:
Janet Nguyen
Chris Norby
Hieu Nguyen
Dick Ackerman
John Moorlach
Bruce Peotter
Hieu Nguyen
Renee Ramirez
Todd Spitzer
Hieu Nguyen
Bruce Peotter
Renee Ramirez
Shawn Nelson
Chris Norby
Bruce Peotter
Hieu Nguyen
Pat Bates
Chris Norby
Dick Ackerman
Hieu Nguyen
Here are the results from this round:
Making The Cut
Hieu Nguyen (5 votes)
Bruce Peotter (3 votes)
Chris Norby (3 votes)
Missing The Cut
Dick Ackerman (2 votes)
Renee Ramirez (2 votes)
Round 3
In this round, each Supervisor could vote for up to two applicants to advance to the final round with an applicant still needing a minimum of three votes to advance. Here’s the breakdown:
Janet Nguyen
Hieu Nguyen
John Moorlach
Bruce Peotter
Hieu Nguyen
Todd Spitzer
Hieu Nguyen
Bruce Peotter
Shawn Nelson
Chris Norby
Hieu Nguyen
Pat Bates
Bruce Peotter
Hieu Nguyen
Here are the results from this round:
Making The Cut
Hieu Nguyen (5 votes)
Bruce Peotter (3 votes)
Missing The Cut
Chris Norby (1 vote)
Final Round
With the field being narrowed to the final two applicants Nelson realized that only one applicant received five votes in every round. Supervisor Nguyen made a motion to appoint Hieu Nguyen to the position of Orange County Clerk-Recorder. Here was the breakdown of the votes on that motion:
Janet Nguyen- Aye
John Moorlach- No
Todd Spitzer- Aye
Shawn Nelson- Aye
Pat Bates- Aye
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OC Insider #29 (aka Greg Diamond) said
Bates went from Norby/Ackerman/Hieu to in the 3rd-to-last round Hiue/Peotter in the 2nd-to-last round, despite Norby’s continuing availability as an option. Interesting. Was this just to spare us a Norby-Peotter sudden death round to go up against Hieu?
Good job, Chris!