{"id":479163,"date":"2026-09-29T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479163\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:58:09","slug":"2026-general-election-san-diego-county-assessor-recorder-clerk-race-explainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479163\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 General Election: San Diego County Assessor\/Recorder\/Clerk race explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big picture<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Marks is unopposed in this race. We asked a county spokesperson why we must vote for races where one candidate is running unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the county\u2019s Deputy Communications Director, Sarah Sweeney told us: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe County of San Diego lists an unopposed candidate on the November ballot because the County Charter requires a general\u2011election vote whenever two or fewer candidates qualify. This is specified in County Charter Section 401.3.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big picture Jordan Marks is unopposed in this race. We asked a county spokesperson why we must vote&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[187948,60817,115886,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-479163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-2026-voter-guide","tag-general-election","tag-jordan-marks","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}