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Officials Warn of Absentee Vote Factor in Recall ElectionBy SARAH KERSHAWPublished: October 7, 2003 OS ANGELES, Oct. 6 — About 3.2 million Californians registered for Tuesday's recall election are voting by absentee ballot, and election officials are growing worried that counting that number of absentee votes could drag out the results of an already unwieldy election. About 1.2 million absentee and other ballots will not be counted until well after the election, and officials said on Monday that those votes could decide a potentially close race, raising the specter of an election with no clear winner for weeks. More...

2003 SurveyUSA Election Polls Sorted: Newest Data on Top Last Updated: 9/23/03     CA Governor Recall 9/23/2003 Remove Davis 57% Keep Davis 42% Undecided 1% Data Collected 9/19/03 - 9/22/03 Geography State of California Universe 827 Certain Voters Margin of Error 3.5% Client KABC-TV Los Angeles   KGTV-TV San Diego   KPIX-TV San Francisco   KXTV-TV Sacramento     CA Governor Replacement 9/23/2003 Schwarzenegger (R) 39% Bustamante (D) 32% McClintock (R) 18% Huffington (I) 4% Other 3% Undecided 4% Data Collected 9/19/03 - 9/22/03 Geography State of California Universe 789 Certain Voters Margin of Error 3.6% Client KABC-TV...

SacramentoTHE MEDIA and political establishment in California hasn't learned a thing in 25 years. In 1978, the Los Angeles Times editorialized sternly against the fiscal drain and "chaotic effects" of Proposition 13, the referendum that cut property taxes deeply and touched off an anti-tax wave across the country. Now, faced with a referendum to toss Democratic governor Gray Davis out of office, the newspaper is warning against the "deeper fiscal hole and the partisan political chaos" that may result. A quarter century ago, the San Francisco Chronicle declared Proposition 13 "a revolutionary threat, a total threat, to the stability of...

FROM: The Honorable Howard Kaloogian Chairman, Recall Gray Davis Committee http://www.RecallGrayDavis.Com June 19, 2003 – 3:45 PM = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Nearly 900,000 Signatures = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = I know a lot of our supporters prefer text-format emails so I wanted to write a short update in text-format to bring all of you up to speed on recent events taking place with the Recall Gray Davis effort. First – you will be very happy to know that as...