With just days remaining before Tuesday's special election, Oakland mayoral candidates Barbara Lee and Loren Taylor spent the weekend canvassing neighborhoods across the city, urging residents to turn in their ballots amid what officials are calling alarmingly low voter turnout.

Voters will also decide on a sales tax measure city leaders say is crucial to helping stave off a budget crisis. And voters will fill an Oakland City Council seat in District 2 which spans Chinatown, Jack London Square and some areas south and east of Lake Merritt.