Disallowed ballots would have elected Frye

[SHRED]

Well she got more votes anyway.
But wait... all of the sudden the repukes want to say, "The law is the law". Oh I see...now they want follow the "law".

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By Elliot Spagat
ASSOCIATED PRESS

5:13 p.m. December 15, 2004

SAN DIEGO – A complete review of disqualified ballots in San Diego's mayoral race showed Wednesday that write-in candidate Donna Frye had enough support to unseat incumbent Dick Murphy if those votes were counted.

The final tally showed that 5,547 voters wrote Frye's name but failed to darken the adjoining bubble. That would have easily been enough to overtake Murphy's 2,108-vote margin of victory.

Sally McPherson, San Diego County's registrar of voters, reaffirmed her position Wednesday that ballots with unfilled bubbles cannot be counted under state election law, setting the stage for another courtroom showdown over the Nov. 2 election. A Superior Court judge upheld her position last month in a challenge filed by the League of Women Voters of San Diego.

"Law says that you've got to fill in the oval. I don't think our position will change – it will not change," McPherson said.

MORE:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cities/20041215-1713-ca-sandiegomayor.html

[MaineDem]

1. FYI- You should change your Subject line

The actual headline is:
Final tally: Disallowed ballots would have elected Frye

[NashVegas]

2. locking

not only has the headline been changed, but it's a duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1072590