Is it time to change how Delta board is elected?

By Andrew Adams
(Lodi) News-Sentinel City Editor

Updated: Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:02 AM PDT

The last time Ted Simas won an election for his seat on the San Joaquin Delta College Board of Trustees many people who voted for him probably wouldn't have been able to recognize him on the street.

"There are more people who vote for me who don't know me than people who do know me," the trustee admitted during a recent interview.

Of the approximately 75,000 people who voted for him in the last election, Simas estimated that only about 40 percent really knew who they were voting for. The rest probably just assumed the incumbent listed on the ballot was a safe bet.

Simas said that's just bound to happen when one takes a look at the Delta College district that stretches from Rio Vista out to San Andreas and from Galt down to Tracy.
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