Donna Frye would have been the mayor of San Diego

[idiosyncratic]

if voters, who went to the trouble to write in her name, had also filled in the bubble on the ballot.

More than 4,000 ballots were thrown out because of this stupid rule.

Review of San Diego mayoral votes boosts case for Frye

[bobweaver]

1. I filled in the bubble and wrote her name, and of course I'm disappointed

Honestly - if they could count hanging chads and pregnant chads as indicators of voter intent in Florida, then what more do you need to indicate voter intent than a voter actually SPELLING OUT THE NAME of the person they wanted to become mayor. Someone gets out and goes to the polls, writes Donna Frye's name in, but doesnt' fill in the bubble, and turns in the ballot - and this is not supposed to count? That doesn't make sense to me. Isn't it completely obvious who that voter was voting for? It's totally obvious. To not allow those votes to count is discriminatory and disenfranchises thousands of voters. Naturally the argument is going to be, "those voters disenfranchised themselves by only writing the name and not filling in the bubble." But doesn't voter intent trump these technicalities? I filled in the bubble and wrote Donna Frye in, but if my neighbor did the same thing but did not fill in the bubble, their vote is discarded - this does not seem fair, and it is a major flaw in the electoral system.

[idiosyncratic]

2. I agree completely. Didn't Bob Filner sponsor a bill to change this?

I don't live in San Diego . . . I live in the east county area . . . so I didn't get to vote for Donna.

If I lived in the city, I would have and, if I hadn't known I had to also fill in that stupid bubble for my vote to count, and had my vote thrown out like these 4,000 voters, I would be marching . . . somewhere.