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 February 26, 2008 02:38 PM