Posted on 02/06/2008 9:47:49 AM PST by tcrlaf
Problem involves nonpartisan crossovers for president
Fearing a "Florida in Los Angeles County" fiasco over the confusing "double bubble" voter ballot, officials said Tuesday they are concerned a ballot design flaw could prevent hundreds of thousands of nonpartisan votes for president from counting.
Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo called on Secretary of State Debra Bowen and acting Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan to review the county's unique and potentially confusing ballot.
"It would be unfortunate if nonpartisan voters, confused by the county's unique `double bubble' ballot design, did not have their vote counted," Delgadillo said.
Secretary of State's Office spokeswoman Nicole Winger said her office also had received calls about the issue and was investigating.
Nonpartisan voters registered as "decline to state" who chose to cross over to the American Independent or Democratic party ballots had to mark the party box at the top of the ballot along with their choice for president for the vote to count.
"I don't think it's a widespread problem," Drugan said. "Is it going on? Are some voters confused? Yes, they are. Is it widespread or systemic? I don't think that it is."
But Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, said the issue could affect a large number of votes because more than 20 percent of the county's nearly 4 million registered voters are listed as "decline to state." "This could potentially impact hundreds of thousands of ballots," Alexander said. "There could be legal challenges."
More than 750,000 nonpartisan voters live in Los Angeles County. If a chunk of these voters were disenfranchised, Alexander said, it could alter the statewide presidential primary results.
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And who do you think is voting for McCain?
You don't need to answer that.
“Thousands of Republican voters in San Diego and as far north as Los Angeles showed up to vote on Tuesday only to be told that they were registered “Non-Partisan”.”
That wasn’t just SoCal. It happened in the Bay Area too. It happened to me, but not the other two people who live at my address. Brian Sussman on KSFO was talking about it, since it happened to so many people up here.
What is it about Democrat-dominated election officials that they can’t design a ballot?
The Hillary Factor
Who will be the first to demand a recount?
More ping.
Any pics of this difficult-to-understand “double bubble” ballot?
All the Nicole Winger’s across the nation have had 2-3 years plus to fix their systems and set reliable operating procedures and over watch of all polls...........
They need to go too JAIL if they consistently screw this up time and time again.
I guess this explains the sudden surge for Buchanan.
It was a closed primary for Republicans in California. No Independents could vote on the Pubbie side--it was a separate ballot.
“No one thought to bring this up prior to election day?”
Either the Dept. of Elections are morons or the voters are. How does this kind of crap keep on popping up?
Dean Logan could well be working for ACORN whose goal is to destroy the election process in the U.S. by making it unworkable.
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/2007/12/dean_logan_moving_up.html
That and this got my attention,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965899/posts
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