Comments on: Uh Oh, Voter Problems In California May Explain Some Of The Gap http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/02/uh-oh-voter-problems-in-california-may-explain-some-of-the-gap/ A black bourgeoisie perspective on U.S. politics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jonhttp://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/02/uh-oh-voter-problems-in-california-may-explain-some-of-the-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-3869 jon Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:59:00 +0000 http://s45368.gridserver.com/?p=797#comment-3869 Interesting news: there's a chance for a full recount in Los Angeles County! <strong>If you're a Los Angeles County Decline-to-State (DTS) voter</strong> who attempted to vote on February 5, please <a HREF="http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/losangelesvotes" REL="nofollow">visit the Courage Campaign's page</a>.<br/><br/>And please help get the word out, online and off!<br/><br/>I've been tracking status and discussions of Double Bubble Trouble and other February 5 voter disenfranchisement <a HREF="http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=88" REL="nofollow">on my blog Liminal States</a>. If there's other stuff I should add, please leave it in a comment. Thanks!<br/><br/>jon<br/><br/>PS: Here's excerpts from <a HREF="http://www.calitics.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5074" REL="nofollow">the latest update from Julia Rosen of Courage Campaign</a> on Calitics:<br/><br/>...<br/><br/>Today the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors held a hearing. Several people testified including Rick Jacobs and the Registrar of Voters Dean Logan. The good news is that Logan sounded amenable towards counting the votes, but made no specific promises.<br/><br/>Any Decline-to-State (DTS) voter who failed to mark the extra bubble indicating that they wanted to vote in the Democratic primary has not been counted thus far. There are no guarantees it will happen and so we are continuing to press the issue until every vote possible is counted.<br/><br/>The Courage Campaign is doing three things right now.<br/><br/><i>1. Requesting that the L.A. ROV conduct a count of all DTS votes, precinct by precinct.<br/><br/>2. Requesting that the L.A. ROV immediately take steps to fix the DTS ballot design flaw for future primary elections<br/><br/>3. Asking DTS voters across Los Angeles County to hold on to the receipt of their vote ("voting stub") until <strong>further notice.</strong></i> Interesting news: there’s a chance for a full recount in Los Angeles County! If you’re a Los Angeles County Decline-to-State (DTS) voter who attempted to vote on February 5, please visit the Courage Campaign’s page.

And please help get the word out, online and off!

I’ve been tracking status and discussions of Double Bubble Trouble and other February 5 voter disenfranchisement on my blog Liminal States. If there’s other stuff I should add, please leave it in a comment. Thanks!

jon

PS: Here’s excerpts from the latest update from Julia Rosen of Courage Campaign on Calitics:

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Today the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors held a hearing. Several people testified including Rick Jacobs and the Registrar of Voters Dean Logan. The good news is that Logan sounded amenable towards counting the votes, but made no specific promises.

Any Decline-to-State (DTS) voter who failed to mark the extra bubble indicating that they wanted to vote in the Democratic primary has not been counted thus far. There are no guarantees it will happen and so we are continuing to press the issue until every vote possible is counted.

The Courage Campaign is doing three things right now.

1. Requesting that the L.A. ROV conduct a count of all DTS votes, precinct by precinct.

2. Requesting that the L.A. ROV immediately take steps to fix the DTS ballot design flaw for future primary elections

3. Asking DTS voters across Los Angeles County to hold on to the receipt of their vote (“voting stub”) until further notice.

]]> By: jonhttp://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/02/uh-oh-voter-problems-in-california-may-explain-some-of-the-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-3824 jon Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:17:00 +0000 http://s45368.gridserver.com/?p=797#comment-3824 There's starting to be action about this around the blogosphere. Julia Rosen's <a HREF="http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/juliarosen/Brg" REL="nofollow">Count Every Vote in LA</a> on Courage Campaign is great. Also, SFGate has a story on <a HREF="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/06/MNQOUSIIM.DTL" REL="nofollow">running out of ballots in Alameda, Santa Clara, and Contra Costa counties</a>. There’s starting to be action about this around the blogosphere. Julia Rosen’s Count Every Vote in LA on Courage Campaign is great. Also, SFGate has a story on running out of ballots in Alameda, Santa Clara, and Contra Costa counties.

]]> By: jonhttp://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/02/uh-oh-voter-problems-in-california-may-explain-some-of-the-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-3810 jon Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:58:00 +0000 http://s45368.gridserver.com/?p=797#comment-3810 Hundreds of thousands of people may have been affected by this. Brad Friedman's voting rights blog is <a HREF="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5659" REL="nofollow">the place to go for information about this</a> -- and to make sure that they've got your experiences. Voting rights activists are very well organized in California so expect to see some major followup.<br/><br/>jon Hundreds of thousands of people may have been affected by this. Brad Friedman’s voting rights blog is the place to go for information about this — and to make sure that they’ve got your experiences. Voting rights activists are very well organized in California so expect to see some major followup.

jon

]]> By: faboomamahttp://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/02/uh-oh-voter-problems-in-california-may-explain-some-of-the-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-3794 faboomama Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:33:00 +0000 http://s45368.gridserver.com/?p=797#comment-3794 dday had been blogging on this issue the past few days and it's been posted over at Calitics. I posted on it earlier today and tried to get the info to as many people as possible. To make it worse, the poll workers don't tell you anything. I spoke to 49 DTS voters who voted between 7am and 9am at various polling places in east Los Angeles and they had no idea about the "double bubble" and couldn't remember if they marked it or not. dday had been blogging on this issue the past few days and it’s been posted over at Calitics. I posted on it earlier today and tried to get the info to as many people as possible. To make it worse, the poll workers don’t tell you anything. I spoke to 49 DTS voters who voted between 7am and 9am at various polling places in east Los Angeles and they had no idea about the “double bubble” and couldn’t remember if they marked it or not.

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