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In a race for a board of supervisors seat in California, a dead candidate holds a huge lead.
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Nov. 11, 2026
Bruce Giudici spent years trying to win a seat on the board of supervisors in Calaveras County, Calif.
He seems to have succeeded now — though he died in August.
The most recent results, published by the Calaveras County authorities on Tuesday evening, show Mr. Giudici with 57 percent of the vote in this month’s election. That gives him a 497-vote lead over his opponent, Clyde Clapp.
Local officials believe there are about 500 ballots left to sort through countywide, but do not expect to issue another update until Friday. The current tally, though, suggests Mr. Giudici will almost certainly win.
Mr. Giudici’s campaign said he had been out knocking on doors when he fell on Aug. 30. Mr. Giudici, who was 68, died the next day.
The campaign pushed forward anyway.
The 47,000 residents in the county, southeast of Sacramento, have voted for Republican presidential candidates for decades, but candidates for supervisor run for four-year terms on a formally nonpartisan basis.
And those contests, like many local races across the country, often hinge more on mudslinging and grass-roots politicking than just about anything else.
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Source: The New York Times · Alan Blinder
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