Measure B won by a 4 percent margin. Not by a "large" margin. In other articles, this paper describes a 4 percent margin (in the rent control and State Assembly contests) as very close.

What do you think the VTA is going to do with all that additional money? It is like asking where a 500-pound gorilla sleeps. Answer: anywhere it wants. Get ready to walk and pay a toll for the privilege.

As of now (already a day after the article), only about 64% of county ballots have been counted:  Web Link Local people who've checked on their individual ballots have found them not counted yet.

Therefore it may be premature to draw any conclusions about victory margins, for these countywide propositions, even now (let alone on Tuesday night).

@Common Sense. I see your link. Interesting. I wonder which ballots are being counted in the last third of the counting and whether they might be yielding different percentages. Maybe the press could inquire.

I'm glad that VTA will get the money to improve shared transit options. The voters have spoken their approval of a great transit organization!

@good news? Great transit organization? The same one that has proven to be incompetent and waste money year after year for 2 decades? Wow I don't know where you got that. Last time we gave them this much money they burned through it all we got nothing and not a single project was completed. Only thing I would have voted yes on is to dismantle the VTA and make a new one from scratch. So now I have to pay more in my money and more time as I will be sitting in traffic longer and longer. I look forward to the 2030 bond measure where they ask for more money to improve traffic that is worse than ever.

Title of the Palo Alto copy of this story was updated this morning, to acknowledge that the ballots are very far from fully counted. Web Link

Issues with this current headline "Measure B wins by a large margin; Measure A squeaks by" go beyond the reasonable complaint above about similar small percentage differences being characterized by the writers as very close in other races, yet simultaneously "a large margin" in this one.

Neither measure A nor B has in fact "won" yet; that may not be known for days. In recent elections, our county voter registrar's office has sometimes taken weeks to tally all ballots (with occasional late surprises in wins and losses). The very misleading phrase "All precincts reported" refers only to the in-person voting on election day, which for years now has been a minority of total voters in this region.

I hope the Embarcadero writers will bear this situation in mind in the future -- it is not new to this county.