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San Anselmo Town Treasurer

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On the ballot

This person would serve as San Anselmo's Town Treasurer for a four-year term, overseeing the Town's fund balances and financial reporting, in this Marin County town of about 12,830 residents (2020 Census). The Town Council itself is five members, elected at large; the Mayor and Vice Mayor rotate annually among the Council's own members rather than being separately elected.

Lori Lopin is running unopposed for San Anselmo's open Town Treasurer seat -- sitting Treasurer John Mahl, elected unopposed in 2022, did not file for re-election, and Lopin is the only candidate who qualified.

San Anselmo is a Marin County town of about 12,830 residents (2020 Census) with a five-member, at-large Town Council, plus a separately elected Town Clerk and Town Treasurer, each serving four-year terms. The Mayor and Vice Mayor are not separately elected -- they rotate annually among the Council's own members. The Treasurer's role is limited: overseeing the Town's fund balances and producing financial reports.

This seat is open because the sitting elected Treasurer, John Mahl -- himself elected unopposed to the seat in 2022 -- did not file to seek another term in 2026, a decision independently confirmed both by the Town's own Town Treasurer page (which still names him as the currently sitting Treasurer) and by a July 2026 Marin Independent Journal report noting he had yet to decide whether to seek re-election. Lopin filed for the open seat on August 4, 2026 and drew no opponent.

Lori Lopin

Lori Lopin filed to run for San Anselmo Town Treasurer on August 4, 2026. No independent biography, campaign website, social-media presence, or news profile was found for her beyond her name and filing date on the Town's own official candidate roster and in three dated Marin Independent Journal filing-period roundups.

Strengths

The only candidate to qualify for the seat, so her election is assured regardless of turnout.

Trade-offs

No independently verifiable professional background or platform statement was found for her despite a genuine multi-engine search -- an honest gap, not a sign of anything about her candidacy.

Keep in mind

Running unopposed, this is effectively a vote to fill the office rather than a comparison between candidates. The Treasurer role itself is narrow and largely administrative.

Source review: Strong (88/100) · 12 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context.

  • marincounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Marin County Elections Department -- official "Status of local candidates for office 11/03/26" page: a table of contents of every county-administered and city/town contest in the county, listing "Town of San Anselmo Member Town Council / Town Clerk / Town Treasurer" as a verified, filed set of contests -- no candidate names appear on this page, only office titles. Retrieved via a Chrome browser workaround in a prior session (2026-08-29); direct WebFetch and Google-Translate-proxy attempts this session both returned HTTP 403.
  • sananselmo.gov (opens in a new tab)Town of San Anselmo -- official "Upcoming Elections" page for the November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election: states the office list ("Two (2) Councilmembers," "One (1) Town Clerk," "One (1) Town Treasurer," each a full 4-year term) and lists five qualified candidates with filing dates -- Steve Burdo, Philip Chigos, and William Dittmar for Council; Cecily T. Wilson for Town Clerk; Lori J. Lopin for Town Treasurer -- and links the Notice of Election and Resolution No. 2026-4622. Fully reachable by direct WebFetch this session.
  • sananselmo.gov (opens in a new tab)Town of San Anselmo -- official, signed "Notice of Election" (dated July 6, 2026, fetched and read in full as a PDF): confirms the same three-office, five-seat structure and the nomination period, and gives the standard Section 10229 boilerplate used to confirm the Clerk and Treasurer races are genuine unopposed ballot contests rather than cancellations.
  • sananselmo.gov (opens in a new tab)Town of San Anselmo -- Resolution No. 2026-4622, calling the November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election: adopted 5-0 (Ayes: Councilmembers Kullaway, Burke, Schlesinger, Walker, Mayor Burdo) on June 9, 2026. Section 3 calls the election, in the Council's own words, for two Town Council seats, one Town Clerk seat, and one Town Treasurer seat, each a 4-year term -- confirming three separate contests before the filing period even opened. Fetched and read in full as a PDF.
  • sananselmo.gov (opens in a new tab)Town of San Anselmo -- official Past Elections archive page: its 2022 election section lists Cecily Wilson as the sole candidate for Town Clerk and John Mahl as the sole candidate for Town Treasurer, independently corroborating both as unopposed 2022 winners of the same two seats now up in 2026.
  • marinij.com (opens in a new tab)Marin Independent Journal -- Richard Halstead, "Slew of Marin offices up for grabs in November election" (July 27, 2026, an early-filing-period roundup): reports "the terms of Councilmember Steve Burdo and Councilmember Tarrell Kullaway are expiring" in San Anselmo, and that "San Anselmo's town clerk, Cecily Wilson, and the treasurer, John Mahl, must also decide whether to seek re-election" -- independently confirming Wilson and Mahl were still the sitting Clerk and Treasurer as of this date. Retrieved via a Google Translate proxy this session.
  • marinij.com (opens in a new tab)Marin Independent Journal -- Keri Brenner, "Marin candidate list lengthens for November election" (Aug. 8, 2026, published as the initial filing deadline closed): reports for San Anselmo that "Burdo has filed to seek reelection. William Dittmar and Philip Chigos have filed to run" for council, and "Lori Lopin has filed to run for town treasurer, and Cecily Wilson has filed to run for town clerk." Retrieved via a Google Translate proxy this session.
  • marinij.com (opens in a new tab)Marin Independent Journal -- Keri Brenner, "More contenders pile into Marin's fall elections" (published Aug. 13, 2026, updated Aug. 15, 2026, after the extended filing deadline closed): the final post-deadline roster for San Anselmo, repeating the identical five names with no further filings or withdrawals, exactly matching the Town's own official election page. Retrieved via a Google Translate proxy this session.
  • sananselmo.gov (opens in a new tab)A negative-result local campaign-finance check: the Town of San Anselmo's own "Financial Filings" page (this page links directly to individual filed FPPC PDFs rather than gating them behind a client-rendered portal) was fetched and read in full this pass -- for the 2026 cycle it lists only the three Town Council candidates (Will Dittmar's Form 410 Statement of Organization, filed 8/20/2026; Steve Burdo and Philip Chigos with no document linked yet). Neither Cecily Wilson nor Lori Lopin appears anywhere on the page for any election cycle -- a real, dated absence, not a blocked or inaccessible source.
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)A negative-result access check: California's statewide Cal-Access campaign-finance filer/candidate search was queried directly this pass and returned no usable content, consistent with the Cal-Access bot-wall documented elsewhere in this dataset. Local candidates for seats like these typically file with the town rather than the state in any case. Documents an access gap, not a claim about either candidate's actual state-level filings.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia, "San Anselmo, California": used narrowly for the fixed, dated 2020 Census population figure (12,830) and the Town's council-manager government structure -- a five-member Town Council elected at large, with the Mayor and Vice Mayor rotating annually among the Council's own members rather than being separately elected -- not for any 2026 election content.
  • sananselmo.gov (opens in a new tab)Town of San Anselmo -- official Town Treasurer department page: names John Mahl as the currently sitting Town Treasurer, independently corroborating that he is the outgoing incumbent who did not file for re-election, leaving the seat open to sole filer Lori Lopin.

Last updated September 2, 2026.