SATISFIED: Attorneys for Arlo Smith, loser in...

SATISFIED: Attorneys for Arlo Smith, loser in the race for attorney general who is challenging the state’s absentee ballot procedures, wanted a deposition from Secretary of State March Fong Eu (above) by the time they appear in a Santa Ana court Friday. . . . But Eu balked and filed a declaration that she has “no personal knowledge” of instructions or guidelines that her staff may have given county registrars. Fine, says one of Smith’s lawyers. “That’s all I needed. The secretary of state doesn’t know what’s going on . . . to defraud the voters.”