Uh Oh Bubble Number Six - Hold On To Yor Hats

[lligrd]

Not all is well in California.

[skipos]

1. Care to elaborate? nt

[andyrowe]

2. Counties are starting to flip to Obama.

I hope we wake up to some better news from Cali.

[skipos]

3. It may get closer, but I HIGHLY doubt Obama will win it. nt

[SoCalDem]

4. 25% of the votes are not even tabulated yet n/t

[lligrd]

5. Per CNN Independents Had To Check An Extra Box

and many are complaining that they didn't know it. Apparently the votes didn't count if you didn't check the extra box. The Register Recorders office says they may have to recount by hand. I heard it on television, can't find a news story yet.

[Indenturedebtor]

6. RUH ROH

Drama drama :hide:

[Texas_Kat]

8. First hand report from CA says that instructions were printed on the ballot

Do voters not read?

[lligrd]

9. I Think A Lot Of Voters Think They Already Know How To Vote

and don't bother with the instructions. Perhaps, they should quit changing the dang things all the time.

[Texas_Kat]

13. Last time they were Diebold, weren't they?

Change for the better I think.

[lligrd]

14. No, Only In Early Voting I Believe

At least, my precinct has used ink for the last few elections.

[lligrd]

7. There Have Also Been Numerous Other Problems

Like Independents being refused ballots, double bubbles and a shortage of ballots. It is going to be interesting.

[TheWraith]

10. For fuck's sake, can't we get this election thing right yet?

New York has had it down since the 1930s: Simple, reliable lever machines. When was the last time New York had a problem with an election? Of course, now we're being made to give the things up in favor of paper ballots, probably optical scan.

[Uncle Sinister]

11. it's unamerican to keep using something that works

[lligrd]

12. Here Is A News Story

Calif. Nonpartisan Voters Report Trouble At Polls
City Attorney Concerned About L.A. Voter Confusion
SUPER TUESDAY
Decide: Voter Guide | Election 2008 Coverage
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In some parts of the state, registrars reported a surge in requests from nonpartisan voters for Democratic ballots. Steve Weir, registrar for Contra Costa County in the San Francisco Bay area, said two precincts called asking for deliveries of extra ballots before 8 p.m.

Nicole Winger, a spokeswoman for the Secretary of State, said the most common complaint into a state hotline came from voters in the decline-to-state category who were upset after being mistakenly told they could not vote for a Democrat in the presidential election.

About 20 percent of the state's voters are not affiliated with any political party.

In Los Angeles County, elected officials and voter-outreach groups threatened legal action against the county registrar over concerns that a so-called "double-bubble" problem with the county's ballots could disenfranchise nonpartisan voters. The ballots given to those voters required them to fill in a bubble specifying which primary they were voting in.

The bubble appears before the list of presidential candidates.

If voters failed to mark that spot, the county's scanning machines would not record the selection for president.

http://cbs2.com/local/Ballot.Double.Bubble.2.646580.html