Los Angeles Election
The disgracefully low turnout (25% or less) for the Los Angeles elections may be more a result of the apathy and stupidity of the bureaucracy already in place than any alleged apathy on the part of the people (Part I, April 12).
Does anyone recall a campaign? What were the issues? What candidate made a public statement? When? Where?
After receiving my voter registration card (dated March 2, effective for elections on or after April 4), I received three official sample ballots, sent for an absentee ballot, and received a letter April 6 asking me to verify my change of address, which I returned promptly. I still have not received my absentee ballot, and, like many, was unable to go to my polling place.
Given the previously low election turnout, why didn’t Los Angeles City Clerk Elias Martinez insist on mandatory absentee ballots? If the current do-nothing city government would encourage, or at least allow us to vote, we would vote them out of office.
JOHN SAWOSKI
Los Angeles
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