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CA Governor Davis to hold news conference at 6:30 pm easten
MSNBC

Posted on 08/07/2003 1:50:46 PM PDT by Dog

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To: Luke Skyfreeper
Isn't that in Jersey?
621 posted on 08/07/2003 4:22:47 PM PDT by Ed_in_NJ
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To: BlessedByLiberty
Sanchez...Anyone know where that graphic is of Sanchez in a Playboy bunny outfit? That was a scream!
622 posted on 08/07/2003 4:23:02 PM PDT by mewzilla
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To: lainie
See also, from ABC News:


(AP Photo)
Davis, ACLU Sue Over Calif. Recall Vote
Davis Complains About Cut in Polling Places; Officials Cite Time Constraints, Shortage of Workers
The Associated Press


SACRAMENTO, Calif. Aug. 7

Gov. Gray Davis says counties will disenfranchise thousands of voters by opening fewer precincts during the Oct. 7 recall election, but election officials say opening all the polling spots would risk chaos because of a shortage of poll workers.

Across California, county voting officials plan thousands fewer precincts for the special election for which they had only 77 days' notice to find voting places and hire poll workers.

On Monday, Davis and five others filed a lawsuit that claims the special election will make it too hard for people to vote, but registrars said they're following standard practice for special elections.

"We're prepared to defend ourselves and our decision," said Los Angeles County Registrar Conny McCormack, who presides over nearly 4 million voters, the nation's largest voting public in one county. Instead of the 4,922 polling places the county opened for last November's election, there will be 1,800 on Oct. 7.

As tensions rise between Davis and local officials thrust into a costly, unprecedented recall election, McCormack and other registrars said they may be helping voters, particularly in poorer urban neighborhoods, vote.

"If the polling place is open I don't know how it is disenfranchising voters," said Brad Clark, Alameda County registrar of voters, adding that voters can use an absentee ballot.

Registrars, McCormack said, are stopping a crisis, because there are often too many precincts and not enough people to run them. In the March 2002 primary election, more than 100 Los Angeles County polling places failed to open on time. Some remained closed until afternoon while officials scrambled to find poll workers.

Voters who have to travel to new polling places are more likely to encounter crowds, confusion and delay, and are less likely to vote than voters who can vote at their normal polling places," says the Davis lawsuit. It states that African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Hispanics will be "disproportionately denied the right to have their votes counted."

History shows such urban voters are more likely to vote Democratic.

The petition to the state Supreme Court asks to delay the recall election until March.

Yet another court challenge to the recall voting procedures was filed Thursday. The American Civil Liberties Union sued in federal court in Los Angeles, arguing six California counties with a high percentage of minority voters, including Los Angeles County, would have to use old, unreliable punch card machines in October.

"In the face of perhaps this country's most closely watched statewide election in history, an Oct. 7 election is a fiasco in waiting," ACLU attorney Mark Rosenbaum said.

Davis' lawyers have made a similar argument in their challenges in state courts.


623 posted on 08/07/2003 4:23:55 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: mewzilla
Is it sirious ?
624 posted on 08/07/2003 4:23:58 PM PDT by ChadGore (Kakkate Koi!)
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To: MASmath
heh, heh, heh.....Right after he reads Ah nold the fine points of the Republican Party Agenda.
625 posted on 08/07/2003 4:24:04 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: MASmath
That headline

Bush May Consider Stumping for Schwarzenegger...

Is ridiculous. The article says nothing of the kind.

626 posted on 08/07/2003 4:24:46 PM PDT by RobFromGa (Sen. Joe McCarthy helped win our death-match against the USSR- Pass it on!)
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To: mewzilla

627 posted on 08/07/2003 4:25:05 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Free Miguel, Priscilla and Bill!)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Yeh, I wonder where it's cheapest to buy judges?
628 posted on 08/07/2003 4:25:12 PM PDT by Ed_in_NJ
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To: RonDog
Thanks. I know there's something afoot about him wanting to be placed on the Question #2 list, too, but I can't remember now.
629 posted on 08/07/2003 4:25:29 PM PDT by lainie
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To: mewzilla
I took a long nap, came back, expected to have some info about California.

No Davis statement?
No CSC decision?

What is going on in Cal?

So. . . Bring on that picture!
630 posted on 08/07/2003 4:25:44 PM PDT by fqued
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To: So Cal Rocket
ROTFL!
631 posted on 08/07/2003 4:26:03 PM PDT by mewzilla
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To: Dog Gone
I agree entirely with your post. When I saw his line about voiding the contracts, I said "Huhhhh?".

I don't know if there's any point in him trying not to infuriate the left. Nobody on the left will vote for him anyway.

I'm going to his campaign event tonight and will hopefully file a report.

D
632 posted on 08/07/2003 4:26:23 PM PDT by daviddennis
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To: RobFromGa
I agree. The headline is a rather big stretch. The body of the article does say expressly (but without a source) that Arnold is viewed by the White House as the GOP's best shot at winning the state governorship, but nothing really about Bush's campaigning for him.
633 posted on 08/07/2003 4:26:45 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: Ed_in_NJ
The Nine Circus. If the CSC turns Davis down he'll go there. They will probably buy his lamest arguments. Yes, they're that Left of California.
634 posted on 08/07/2003 4:26:46 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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More teaser about the court ruling from FOX
635 posted on 08/07/2003 4:26:48 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: fqued
What's going on in CA? Something siriously odiferous I suspect....
636 posted on 08/07/2003 4:27:07 PM PDT by mewzilla
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To: fqued
We're still waiting. If this keeps up I'm gonna have to break into a wine bottle.

Or go punch something.
637 posted on 08/07/2003 4:27:20 PM PDT by lainie
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To: lainie
Thanks. I know there's something afoot about him wanting to be placed on the Question #2 list, too, but I can't remember now.

Davis wants the SCOCAL to order his name added to the second part of the ballot, just in case there are people who want to recall him from office and then vote him back in as the replacement.

Remember, you asked ....

638 posted on 08/07/2003 4:27:50 PM PDT by Brandon
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To: princess leah
Davis is just looking for "face time" on TV.
639 posted on 08/07/2003 4:28:02 PM PDT by capitan_refugio (Read it and weep, Gray.)
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To: goldstategop
Whats the news, is Grayout coming out of the closet aka Hutchinson ?
640 posted on 08/07/2003 4:28:22 PM PDT by John Lenin
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