Error leaves 118,000 voters in California off rosters in Los Angeles County

[KelleyKramer]

Error leaves 118,000 voters in California off rosters in Los Angeles County

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politics/california-primary-los-angeles-voting-error/index.html?utm_content=2018-06-06T01%3A30%3A45&utm_term=image&utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social

(CNN)A random printing error on the voter roster in Los Angeles County caused widespread confusion in the midst of voting in the California primary on Tuesday. Voters whose names did not appear on the roster should have been given provisional ballots. The error could have a major impact on the timing of the results in the state, with an increase in provisional ballots possibly delaying the count for days.

The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder said that the names of 118,522 voters were omitted from the roster that poll workers use to check in voters at their polling place. In an interview, a spokesman with the county registrar said the office did not know what parts of the county were affected, but some 1,530 precincts of the 4,357 Los Angeles County voting locations were impacted.

"We are working to see what precincts are affected," said Michael Sanchez, a spokesman with Los Angeles Registrar, who explained that the office had discovered a random printing error on the roster. "We don't know yet. We are still in the thick of it." Antonio Villaraigosa, the former Los Angeles mayor who's now a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, called on the LA County registrar to keep the polls open longer.
"I'm calling on @LACountyRRCC to keep the polls open longer because of the unprecedented number of voters left off the voter rolls. You have the right to vote. If you were turned away, return to your polling place & exercise your right to vote by requesting a provisional ballot," he tweeted.

Voters whose names did not appear on the roster were supposed to be given provisional ballots, but clearly that did not happen in some cases. The department received calls and complaints throughout the afternoon, several hours before polls closed.

While all registered voters can still cast a provisional ballot before the polls close at 8 p.m. PT, the irregularity could potentially cause major headaches in counting votes in the governor's race and the highly competitive contest in the 39th Congressional District, which is represented by retiring Congressman Ed Royce.


.

[LisaM]

1. Yeah, one was an activist friend of mine and she was NOT PLEASED.

I mean, if she was thrown off the rolls, then Houston, we have a problem. A friend of hers said her son had registered in time, and wasn't listed, so they figured he wasn't on the rolls yet and he didn't vote at all.

I'm curious to know whose error it was. I'm assuming they outsourced this task to some lowballing private outfit.