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Early Oakland election results are in, with Lee poised to win and many more votes to count

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The Alameda County Registrar of Voters released early election results Tuesday. The earliest returns include mail-in ballots and drop-box ballots received by Election Day. Later counts will include in-person poll tallies and ballots that the country receives until Nov. 10. Results in the charts below reflect numbers released after 11 p.m., when the county had a partial count from polling sites. Mayor Barbara Lee was poised to win, with 85% of the votes counted. All of her challengers has voting percentages in the single digits: business owner and longtime community advocate Brenda Grisham, educator and researcher Mindy Pechenuk, and community investment executive Julius Robinson. Voters also seem ready to give Lee more power, as a measure that City Council floated to change the city’s charter, giving the mayor more authority, had nearly three-quarter of early returns.

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