Tuesday, April 4, is the last day Los Angeles residents in City Council District 6 can cast their vote for a candidate to fill the seat vacated last year by disgraced former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez.
Seven names are on the ballot, in this order: Isaac Kim, Imelda Padilla, Rose Grigoryan, Marisa Alcaraz, Antoinette Scully, Douglas Sierra and Marco Santana.
The seven are vying to represent a large swath of the San Fernando Valley including Arleta, Lake Balboa, North Hills, North Hollywood, Panorama City, Sun Valley and Van Nuys.
Voters can cast or drop off their ballots at any of seven vote centers that will be open. Those sites will be open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Voters can also drop off ballots at Ballot Drop Boxes through Election Day. To find the vote center and ballot drop box locations, visit clerk.lacity.gov/elections.
Voters can also deliver their ballot to the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder’s office, at 12400 Imperial Hwy, Norwalk
Vote-by-mail ballots must be postmarked by Tuesday and received by the registrar’s office within seven days of the election to count.
Residents in Council District 6 have been without a voting member on the Los Angeles City Council since October, when then-Council President Martinez resigned under pressure.
Martinez, along with two other current or former councilmembers and a labor leader who also resigned, were caught on a leaked recording from a backroom meeting in October 2021 in which Martinez made racist comments and discussed how to manipulate the process to redraw City Council boundaries.
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