Nicole Speer has surpassed Jenny Robins and is now in position to be re-elected to the Boulder City Council after the latest ballot drop on Wednesday night.

Speer was in fifth place after the first ballot drop on Tuesday evening, but she gained ground on Robins in each of the subsequent ballot drops Tuesday night and into early Wednesday morning. Speer has 13.9% of the vote and Robins is at 13.2%, a difference of fewer than 700 votes out of almost 106,000 cast .

Incumbents Matt Benjamin and Mark Wallach appear to be safely re-elected at 17.9% and 15.7%, respectively. Ex-Boulder Fire Rescue Chief Rob Kaplan is in third at 14.2% of the vote. Mayor Pro Tem Lauren Folkerts is in sixth place with 12.2% of the vote. She and Speer getting re-elected would mark a major win for Boulder’s progress

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