Apparently, EACH of the eighty Assembly districts in California will be assigned a VARIATION on that basic list, so that ALL of the 26 possible variations of this basic theme will be in use SOMEWHERE in this state on October 7.See also:
California Recall: Drawing determines alphabetical order for Oct. 7 ballot
AP via San Diego Union Tribune ^ | August 11, 2003 | Jim Wasserman
Posted on 08/11/2003 3:00 PM PDT by heleny
Drawing determines alphabetical order for Oct. 7 ballot
By Jim Wasserman
ASSOCIATED PRESS
1:59 p.m., August 11, 2003The first letter chosen was R, followed by W, Q and O.
The six-minute grab bag of letters seemed more like a lottery drawing than a routine process, which is done every election to help erase the estimated 5 percent advantage a candidate gets from being at the top of the ballot, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley said.
The letters H, B and S, were drawn as eighth, ninth and tenth, [my correction: 9th, 10th, 11th] meaning that some high-profile candidates, commentator Arianna Huffington, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be relatively near each other on most ballots.
But as the Shelley's office continues to certify finalists for the ballot, the precise order won't be known until late Wednesday when Shelley certifies how many of the 195 candidates who submitted papers will make the official ballot.
Shelley said Monday the office has qualified 96 candidates and is reviewing the paperwork submitted by 99 more.
The lottery-style alphabetical system will rotate names on 80 different ballots in each of the state's Assembly districts.
Under the system, candidates who start near the top in ballots used in northern California will shift to the bottom in southern California and work their way toward the middle, possibly for ballots in the 24 voter-rich Assembly districts of Los Angeles...
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The odds that FL appears somewhere in the list is one in 26. There are 25 two letter combinations formed (1-2,2-3,3-4, and so on, down to 25-26). For any one of them, the odds that "FL" appears is one in 650, so the odds that FL appears somewhere is 25 in 650, or 1 in 26. So I guess seeing FL isn't that surprising. We don't see CA, and that'd be even more surprising. We also didn't see ARNOLD. The chances of that happening would be about 1 in 7.893 million. The chance of GRAY or CRUZ appearing would be 1 in 15,600. And the chance of seeing ARIANNA is ZERO.
