Imelda Padilla Sworn into Office to Represent East SFV: 6th L.A. Council District

The process of certification by the County Registrar Recorder/County Clerk and acknowledgement by the City Clerk, followed by the City Council agreeing to the results may seem redundant; it is part of the codified final process of elections. While to this date no independent same-day voting audit has been established, by either party, voters, current office holders, or even past elected officials; the accountability of elections, of voting, still rests with voter participation.

There was a 13.05% (15,375 votes) participation in the June 27th run-off election. There were 104,425 eligible to vote but did not, despite the fact 94.5% of those who voted cast their ballot by mail. The temperature on Tuesday, June 27th peaked at 3pm to eighty degrees.

While the L.A. City Council is a non-partisan office, as are all municipal positions by directive of the California Constitution, Section of Article II. However, an attempt was made to change this in 2017 by State Senator Lara (now California Commissioner of Insurance) so that only judicial and office of the Superintendent of Public instruction were non partisan. The law would have made School, County, and City Offices partisan. Bill Text - SCA-11 Elections: Nonpartisan offices. "A political party or party central committee shall not nominate a candidate for nonpartisan office, and the candidate’s party preference shall not be included on the ballot for the nonpartisan office."

Currently the L.A. City Council is a one-party super-majority which has remained for decades.

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