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February 5, 2008
Voting is Tricky Business... Will Your Vote be Counted or Thrown?
In a quite quickly put-together press conference slated for 2:00 p.m. today at the First Street Steps at City Hall, Councilmen Eric Garcetti and Dennis Zine will be reminding voters that if you're nonpartisan or 'decline to state,' you must mark the box at the top of the ballot if you want to vote for an American Independent or Democratic candidate.
Unconfirmed field reports are saying that the LA County Registrar is expecting to disqualify votes due to this tricky step in the voting process. The California Chronicle warned of this yesterday:
Election activists have complained to the Los Angeles County Registrar´s office that if voters fail to complete the bubble indicating the party in whose primary they are voting, their presidential selection on the ballot will not be counted. For example, if voters request a Democratic ballot but fail to fill the bubble next to the word "Democratic" at the top of their ballots, then the voters´ choices of presidential candidate (Hillary Clinton or Barak Obama) will not be counted. [California Chronicle]The Courage Campaign, the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project and the League of Women Voters are expected to be present at the press conference as well.
Previously on LAist
- Los Angeles = Voting Problems Everywhere?
- 'Independents' Can Vote for Democrats but Not Republicans in California Primary
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I am registered NP but I mailed a change of registration way more than 15 days ago, and apparently they had no record of this. But I had no problems, they asked me what party I wanted to vote for, I told them and they had me write it in on the blank line next the the NP___ then they handed me a ballot. All was good, as far as I know!
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I am a non-partisan voter, and I don't see how they would be able to tell the difference. When I got to the table, they asked which party I wanted to vote for, and I chose democrat. They handed me a democrat ballot just as the other people I was with (who are democrat), and so how would they know whether I was a non-partisan voter vs. a democratic voter. From what I could tell (since the ballots are separate from the actual voter), they would have no way of telling me the non-partisan voter from a democratic voter...
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meballard: The pollworkers at your polling place messed up. They were supposed to give you a non-partisan ballot, not a Democractic one. Then they were supposed to send you to a Democratic voting booth.
Don't worry, your vote still counted.