Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : ELECTIONS : 2,000 Left Off the Rolls but Can Still Vote

More than 2,000 voters in Lancaster and Palmdale were inadvertently left off voter rolls, but the mistake will not prevent them from voting in Tuesday’s local election, officials said Friday.

The mistake was made by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office, which supplied a list of the registered voters in Palmdale and Lancaster to the respective city clerks.

Marcia Ventura, a spokeswoman for the county office, said the voters were somehow dropped from the rolls when the registrar’s office was preparing an Antelope Valley flood and storm district for a measure that will appear on the June primary ballot in that area.

Parts of 10 precincts in the north county region were somehow dropped from voter lists, affecting about 1,500 voters in Lancaster and 512 in Palmdale.

The error was discovered Friday.

Voters who were left off the roles did not receive sample ballots from the city clerks’ offices. County officials, the cities’ elections consultant and the cities were working Friday to get sample ballots to the voters as quickly as possible.

In Lancaster, a group of 40 city employees were sent to the affected area to hand-deliver sample ballots.

The county planned to hand-deliver addressed sample ballots Friday night to the post office in Mojave. These should be delivered in Saturday’s mail, officials said.

Sample ballots also will be available Monday and Tuesday at the clerks’ offices in Palmdale and Lancaster.

Palmdale City Clerk Victoria Denham said her office only received about a dozen calls from residents who did not receive the sample ballots.