Posted on 02/05/2008 9:20:44 PM PST by SmithL
Polling places in Alameda County will remain open as late as 10 p.m. after some locations ran out of provisional and Democratic ballots, the registrar's office said tonight.
Registrar spokesman Guy Ashley said 14 polling places in Berkeley, Oakland, Hayward and Fremont ran short of Democratic ballots. While earlier reports said the polling places were to remain open by court order, Ashley said there was no such order.
Instead, he said Superior Court Judge Winifred Smith checked with the state Administrative Office of the Courts in interpreting the Elections Code, and then advised County Counsel Richard Winnie to advise the registrar's office to take the unusual action to keep polling places open.
Ashley said, however, that locations will remain open only if people remain waiting to vote.
"We have ordered all polling places in Alameda County to remain open if anybody is in line waiting to vote until 10 p.m. at the latest - only if anybody is in line to vote - due to ballot shortages that plagued some polling places in the county this afternoon," he said.
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More Rat on Rat vote fraud. The Clintons need Alameda and LA counties bad. The ballot counting will continue until the desired result is achieved.
Damn freakin libs!
Are provisional ballots what the illegals use to cast their votes in California?
Hey, they gots to keep in practice! I remember when it took Oakland (pop. @ 400,000) a whole month to elect a rat mayor. Ballots just kept turner up for one side and then the other.
Hilarious...
Interesting doings in CA tonight. The Dems are allowing all decline-to-state, a/k/a non-partisan, and American Independent Party voters to request a Democrat ballot, and I would say that 90% of them are, and this is nearly a universal figure statewide.
So places are running out of officially-printed Democratic ballots. The workaround is fairly layered:
1) Open up any voting machines that are available. Every precinct was assigned at least one to be used only for blind voters and the original instructions to poll workers was to discourage their use until necessary. Well it became necessary.
2) When the English/Spanish ballots run out, start using any English/Chinese, English/Vietnamese, English/Klingon, etc. ballots.
3) When those run out, start tearing the Sample Ballots out of the various Voter Guides issued to the precinct.
4) When those run out, ask the voter to use his own Sample Ballot that he brought with him.
There is no obvious skullduggery going on here, but it will undoubtedly be pretty confusing for a couple of days with most polls closing at 8 PM as scheduled and a few staying open until 10 PM.
IMHO, the proper procedure should be to establish a cut-off. People who are in line prior to closing time get to vote. Those who are not, don’t.
3rd World banana republics have more honest, cheat-free voting than we do.
All these years later and no voting reform ever got off the ground. Dems would not support an end to their cheating. And the Repubs looked to Bush for leadership that was not there.
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