Officials Warn of Turmoil on Election Night (vote count in California)

[IndianaGreen]

8:09 PM PDT, August 10, 2003
Officials Warn of Turmoil on Election Night

Long ballot could mean a delay in the vote count. Schwarzenegger releases tax returns, McClintock wins conservative GOP group’s endorsement.

By Allison Hoffman, Monte Morin and Megan Garvey, Times Staff Writers

The day after nearly 200 Californians filed for the right to be on the ballot to replace Gov. Gray Davis if he is recalled Oct. 7, officials warned Sunday it may take days following the election to determine the outcome, particularly if it is close.

Election officers across the state continued Sunday to finalize the names of qualified candidates for the ballot, with 89 candidates confirmed as having fulfilled all requirements. Another 104 candidate filings are still being reviewed.

After Saturday's furious pace, with well over 100 last-minute candidates filing statewide before the 5 p.m. deadline, Sunday seemed quieter, with few of the best-known candidates making campaign appearances .

But it was anything but calm in county election offices.

In some counties with paper-based voting systems, such as Contra Costa and Sonoma, the large number of candidates will require three or more cards, making it necessary for the ballots to the read by hand to ensure each voter did not choose more than one alternative to Davis, election officials said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-recall11aug11,1,5238329.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. One word comes to mind:

Clusterf*ck. Arnold is in there because he can possibly rise over the S/N of all those candidates. Not because he offers anything substantive.

NOW is the time for SCOTUS to do its job. California is on the cusp of a total breakdown of its electoral system.

[oceanpoetry]

2. I think it is a rather funny situation...this is electoral chaos

Because there are so many candidates, anyone could win, maybe even Arianna Huffington, which would be cool!

[shance]

3. So you think Republicans seizure of government is "funny"?

Thats really "cool"

It's individuals like you that make me ashamed to be an American.

[robertarctor]

4. I second shance

Gray Davis was elected fair and square to serve as governor until January, 2007. This isn't funny. It's a Republican coup d'etat.

I hope something funny happens to you, like Wil E. Coyote drops a big comic anvil on your head. Ha ha ha.

[arcane1]

5. elected less than one year ago, I might also add

this was already ridiculous when it was just Issa and his self-financed grass roots astroturf

Arnold S is just going to make platitudes and catch-phrases for a month, and get endless free praise in the media, and offer nothing of substance to vote upon

just like the Chimp... who has already said that AS would be a good governor...

Repubes are surely going to be at the polls. EVERY ONE OF THEM, because that's how they are. Always ready to support a power-grab, and the tv is telling them how OK it is. Fortunately I'm in one of the counties using paper, but this story even kind of tilts pro-Diebold, by centering the hassle of the recall around the slowness of manual counting.. bastards..

I'm taking Jack Rabbit's recall pledge, to vote NO on the recall, and choose the Lt Gov as the replacement. I hope at the very least that everyone here takes it seriously enough to show up at the polls

any non-repube in the state who isn't showing up to this vote better answer to ME! :evilgrin: