Posted on 11/05/2024 1:11:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
Two ballot blunders in Santa Cruz County are impacting hundreds of ballots that could ultimately impact the outcome of two ballot issues.
“You know, we're human, errors do sometimes happen,” said Trisha Webber, registrar of voters for Santa Cruz County.
The mistakes were made by the Santa Cruz County elections office and are impacting more than 1,100 ballots. In one case a key ballot measure was left off the ballot in the other case, voters were given wrong voting instructions.
The elections office, once they were made aware of their mistakes, notified voters and sent them replacement ballots.
“Every vote does matter. That's why as soon as we identified the error, we wrote a letter, put it on our website, notified the district, and sent everything out to the voters to give them a second opportunity to vote the corrected ballot,” Webber said.
Here are the ballot mistakes voters should be aware of. In a school board race for the Lakeside School District, voters were incorrectly instructed to vote for no more than three candidates; it should say vote for no more than two. In that case 885 ballots were impacted there.
In the other case, Measure R a bond measure for the Central Fire district was left off 284 ballots. Those behind the measure are hoping to raise millions to replace aging equipment and repair instruction. In both cases, the registrar of voters said human error is to blame.
“There's a new mailing, a new ballot creation, staff time to segregate out the ballots and match that up and do that sort of stuff. But that's not being directed back towards the districts that was our error and we will not bill the districts for our errors,” Webber said.
But the errors could have an impact on the final election results. Voters are being advised to vote with their replacement ballot, if you do nothing, your old ballot will be processed and in the case of Measure R which needs a two-thirds vote to pass every vote could count.
“If not, we'll take those original ballots, and we will put them through and tabulate them as is, which would result in an undervote for Measure R since they did not vote for it,” Webber said.
If you think you're one of the more than 1,100 voters impacted by the ballot mistakes and you didn't get a replacement ballot, contact the elections office. Another option would be to vote on Tuesday in person at any precinct in Santa Cruz County.
““You know, we’re human, errors do sometimes happen,” said Trisha Webber, registrar of voters for Santa Cruz County.”
we know, we just want to know why the errors never occur in the favor of the republicans?
How has what used to be quite straightforward in decades past become so dysfunctional?
Is DEI involved?
That is just a silly comment. A professional checks there work. Then, several others fully check it also when it is very important. Humans do “make mistakes”, but the number of errors always in favor of demonicrats are not honest mistakes, they are not incompetent, they are intentional.
Not with paper there are no errors!
What do you think, Nick? Is a “blunder” better or worse than a “glitch”?
A blunder is worse than a glitch. A glitch is supposed to be minor.
Poor them. It isn’t like they knew this day was coming.
Liars.
I am hearing that PG&E in California had a planned power outage at 5 polling stations in a republican area.
I have seen enough already. Shenanigans all across the country. This election is already hopelessly tainted.
I saw that, but the counties look like most Democrat leaning.
It’s simple. They forgot what the heck a ballot actually is. A properly cast, legitimate ballot is somebody’s voice that deserves to be heard. These morons are thinking that they’re just pieces of paper, so they don’t care so much about the blank ballots that they’re printing, IMO.
right next to SillyCon Valley and they can’t even count ballots correctly?
the place where automatic driverless vehicles are piloted up and down the highway by computer control?
are we expected to believe they can’t even count their ballots?
This may be a smokescreen for attacks on voter systems elsewhere outside California. Santa Cruz County is one of the bluest counties in the country. Four years ago, Biden beat Trump by an over 4:1 margin. The GOP is not contesting the state. To sabotage the system in Santa Cruz County is plausible deniability should similar events occur in south Georgia or central Pennsylvania.
But most of the time it is sabotage.
California doesn’t even vaguely resemble that anymore.
It’s a Third World country now, more like Mexico City or Mumbai.
“It’s a Third World country now, more like Mexico City or Mumbai.”
Accurate. My part of OC also features Cairo, Beijing, Manila, Tehran...
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