So now it looks like around 94,000 votes may not be counted in LA county. These are the DTS voters (declined-to-state). Those folks who don't write in Republican or Democrat.
This year in California, DTS voters were allowed to vote in the Democratic primary and simply needed to ask for a Democratic ballot. Over 150,000 did. Around 94,000 didn't fill in the duplicate bubble that stated Democrat (the ballot says, is titled, Democratic ballot). So, to be clear, they asked for a Democratic ballot, voted for either Clinton or Obama (OK, maybe they voted for Gravel, haha) and submitted the ballot.
50% of the votes are not going to be counted. There has been many requests for a recount and specifically a call to count those votes. There is no telling whether the votes lean to one or another candidate-the issue is that almost 100,000 votes are being tossed for what they call the "double bubble" issue. The head guy for Los Angeles registrar of voters (sorry, too lazy to look up the asshole's name), was warned in advance of the issue and was asked to replace the ballots or take some immediate action (this is not the first time there have been "double bubble" issues), but he did nothing AND NOW he refuses to do a recount.
Outrageous. But, you can take action. Sign the petition demanding the recount. This is just the beginning (again.) of screwy ballots, don't let anyone get away with this:
http://www.couragecampaign.org/CountEveryVote
Two comments...
ReplyDelete1) If the difference between the leading vote getters is greater than the number of uncounted ballots, counting them would be throwing good money after bad.
2) If people are interested in voting methodology, best practices, current debates on procedure and most of all technology, take a look at some of the research in this area:
http://www.vote.caltech.edu/
Also: I agree, the ballots were designed by idiots. Is it REALLY THAT HARD? Come on people.
Yes, BUT...if the delegates are proportionally distributed, those 94,000 do matter. We are not a winner take all state.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, thanks for the link, Mr Smarty pants. You have always been smarter than me, ever since physics with Mrs Sizinski ("thithinthki" as she would say). You probably know how to spell her name too.
Good god...Siznik! I had forgotten. Remember, I had to bend the rules a little in there. I think I copied test answers from Shmerl!
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