Over 118,000 voters accidentally left off rolls in Los Angeles County

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

A printing error affecting more than one-third of the precincts in Los Angeles County left 118,522 registered voters off the rolls during the California primary on Tuesday, the county election authority said in a statement.

County Clerk Dean C. Logan said that voters left off the rolls can still cast provisional ballots. But the process of verifying and counting a large number of provisional ballots could delay the vote tally in local races, depending on exactly where the affected precincts are. Two battleground House seats, California's 25th and 39th Districts, take in parts of Los Angeles County.

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The 39th District race has been particularly closely watched, with Democratic groups spending millions of dollars to ensure that two Republicans do not advance to the general election and wipe the district off the battleground map.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/05/los-angeles-voters-error-627994

[pnwmom]

1. This is the kind of thing that will probably be happening all over the country in November. n/t

[elleng]

3. Yes. 'they've' been working on it for years,

much more efficient than we are.

[Sophia4]

2. That is unacceptable. We saw the same mess at the polls in the primaries in 2016.

Logan should resign if he can't do his job correctly.

[bobbieinok]

4. 'Accidently??' Only reasonable reaction in present 'get rid of voters' climate.

[lagomorph777]

24. 'Accidental' - BULLSHIT!

Why do 'journalists' insist on buying / reselling this crap without a trace of critical thinking? It's infuriating.

[47of74]

5. Accidentally

Yeah, right.

Got these for sale for anyone who believes this kind of garbage is accidental

[Toorich]

6. And so it begins....

...one man-one vote!

[SharonClark]

7. A printing error?

Don't they check their work?

[Glorfindel]

8. That's no "accident"

It's about half the number of registered voters in the state of Wyoming, which has THREE electoral votes. Someone needs to go to prison for this!

[brooklynite]

10. So, you're blaming Democratic leadership of election fraud?

[pnwmom]

11. That's an odd conclusion. My fear would be that someone hacked a weak point in the system,

either in the elections office or the printer, and purposely caused the "error."

And recent experience has taught us that the hacker could be Russian, Chinese, North Korean, or anyone who just wanted to cause trouble.

Democratic leadership would be the last on anyone's list.

[former9thward]

27. So now every error is an international conspiracy?

You post "the hacker" as if it was a fact. Please link to that evidence.

[pnwmom]

28. Given all the evidence that numerous states' elections system were hacked in 2016,

my personal opinion is that it's more likely this "error" was due to a hacker than caused by Democratic election officials.

[SCVDem]

9. This is too big

to go unnoticed.

I would bet the provisionals do get counted.

I trust California to get this right, eventually. I mailed my ballot last week.

I don't like this "Jungle" style primary.

[CreekDog]

16. ALL PROVISIONALS from registered voters are COUNTED PERIOD

You can register to vote and vote on election day in California and your vote will be counted whether it is on a regular ballot or provisional.

If you were inadvertently left off the roster log at the polling place, but you're registered with the county, then your provisional ballot will be counted.

There are lots of ways to protect your right to vote in California, and even a f-up like this will not prevent people from voting, and thanks to lots of polling places, , the minimum number mandated by state law, lines for voting are typically fairly short as well as tons of early and mail in voting, there are lots of ways to vote in California and lots of ways to fix any issue even on election day so that you can vote.

[SCVDem]

19. I really like California voting,

Not every state counts the provisional votes. We have seen this in the past 20 years.

They just say they did.

[CreekDog]

20. This is why it takes almost a month for California to certify election results

They verify all votes and count every ballot cast, provisional or not, by a legally registered voter.

And this is required by state law.

[KT2000]

12. test run by trump/putin?

lots of excuses each time something like this happens.

[truthisfreedom]

13. Sounds very plausible.

[Initech]

14. Putin is trying to fuck with us. We can't let them get away with this!

[dhill926]

15. this could really hurt Villagarosa...

which of course helps the fucking republican.

[CreekDog]

17. Villaraigosa hurt himself by aligning himself with Republicans and charter schools

and his performance is showing the wisdom of that strategy.

good riddance frankly.

[Codeine]

23. Even if every single one of the

118,000 voters hit by this error voted for Villaraigosa he would still be well behind the second-place finisher.

[CreekDog]

18. 118k Los Angeles County voters is 2.2% of the total LA County registered voter total

And all these folks can vote provisionally or use same day voter registration to cast a vote.

LA County is really big.

[Retrograde]

21. Over 5M registered voters in Los Angeles county

there are a lot of people in some California counties.

A 2% error rate is still too high.

[LongTomH]

22. 'Accidentally' my ass!!!!

[AllaN01Bear]

25. sounds more like deliberatly on pourpose .

can we as citizens sue over this .

[Mr.Bill]

26. I wonder what was the party affilliation

of the missing voters? A real journalist would ask this question.

[ailsagirl]

29. So is our mostly-Dem state in danger of being taken over by the repukes???????

This scares the hell out of me.

[heaven05]

30. Any wonder, 39th district, 25th district

predominantly Latino voters. November will be the same nationwide in minority communities.

[gristy]

31. Unless it's a crash (plane, train, auto, etc.) accident does not belong in any headline or article.

Whether it is/was an accident would have to be asserted by someone or it is purely conjecture. Journalists need to stick to the facts and to quotes.

Headline _should_ read "118,000 voters left off rolls in Los Angeles County".

In the article the reporter can write "so and so asserts it was an accident that 118,000 voters were left off the rolls in Los Angeles County."