Supervisor Ted Williams Wins Another Term

Registrar releases update; just 580 ballots left to count

Supervisor Ted Williams (Photo courtesy of Mendocino County)

Update: Lake County has issued a new report and has just 188 unprocessed ballots and 108 ballots left to cure. (June 16, 2026, 1:20 p.m.) We have adjusted the section of this article that addresses Measure A, which now has no possibility of passing. We also added in the number of uncured ballots for Mendocino County.

The Mendocino County Registrar of Voters released an updated vote tally Monday afternoon and reported that just 580 ballots remain to be counted and 208 have signature issues that must be cured in order for them to be counted.

District 5 Supervisor Ted Williams leads with 55% of the vote — enough to avoid a runoff election. Even if every remaining ballot were cast for Kevan Evans, Williams’ closest opponent, Williams would still finish with just over 50% of the vote and secure another term.

In District 4, front-runner Buffey Wright Bourassa held a 51-vote lead over Eric Hart. Even if Bourassa received all 580 outstanding ballots, she would finish with only about 41% of the vote — not enough to avoid a runoff against Hart in the November election.

Meanwhile, the Measure A bond is failing. Community college bond measures are decided by the combined vote of all voters within the district. Currently “yes” notes for Measure A make up 52% of all votes cast for that measure in Mendocino and Lake counties. Even if every single ballot that is not processed, including the uncured ballots, contains a “yes” vote for Measure A, it will still fail with less than 54% of the vote.