California: Shasta Lake Councilwoman loses landslide recall vote

With 200 more votes to count, Dolores Lucero lost, 1,207- 492 opposed. It is a close race to succeed her, Pam Morgan (512) over Richard Kern (439) and Rose Smith (466).

The 1,699 ballots counted so far represent about a third of the city's nearly 5,100 registered voters and more than either of the city's two most recent elections.

In 2009, the election that put Lucero in office, 1,511 voters cast ballots, roughly 30 percent of registered voters in the city at the time. Some 1,105 ballots were cast in 2005, representing about 23 percent of voters. Lucero wasn't a candidate then