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May 15, 2008 Providing legal resources and election news to California election officials and the attorneys who represent them. |
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« November 2007 | Main | March 2008 » February 26, 2008 Los Angeles County to try to count flawed 'double bubble' ballots"Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan says his office will try to count about 50,000 improperly marked nonpartisan ballots from this month's presidential primary election. Problems arose because many independent voters failed to properly mark two "bubbles" on the ballots to signal which party and which candidate they intended to support. That wiped out their votes for candidates in the Democratic and American Independent presidential primaries. But Logan has told California Secretary of State Debra Bowen in a letter that he may be able to determine what some of those voters intended to do and count their ballots before he certifies the election results next week." The article is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 02:38 PM | Permalink. . . February 17, 2008 Problems plague tallying of ballots"Calls to count the confusing ballots have come from the voting rights group Courage Campaign, the county Board of Supervisors, and the secretary of state. The county Registrar- Recorder/County Clerk's Office has committed to taking at least a sample, but a spokeswoman said Friday that the department has yet to determine whether it can review every ballot, and whether new votes could be legally included in the final total. Secretary of State Debra Bowen blamed the confusion on the county's ballot design. "Secretary Bowen believes it's a uniquely flawed ballot design," said spokeswoman Kate Folmar. "She has responsibility for certifying voting systems, but California law does not give her authority to review ballot designs." Unlike every other county in California, Los Angeles County residents cast their votes on a scantron form separate from the booklet that lists the names of the candidates and titles of the propositions, Folmar said. The ballot also featured the unique and now-infamous "double bubble," requiring non-partisan voters to fill in a bubble specifying which party they wanted to vote under." The article is here Posted by Randy Riddle at 07:54 AM | Permalink. . . February 16, 2008 Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama VoteFrom the New York Times: "Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama. That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city's 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district." Posted by Randy Riddle at 01:19 PM | Permalink. . . |
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