Residents Need Not Head Downtown to Vote

Tarzana residents need not fill up their gas tanks if they received sample ballots last week notifying them that their polling place for next month’s election is downtown Los Angeles.

Like voters in Chatsworth who received erroneous polling place information from the Los Angeles city clerk’s office, Tarzana voters will be mailed postcards in the next few days listing a voting spot closer to their neighborhoods.

But unlike the situation in Chatsworth, where election officials mistakenly informed voters to go to Montebello to cast ballots, the address sent to Tarzana voters--the Temple Street location of the city clerk’s office--was by design, said Joe Giles, the assistant chief of the city clerk’s elections division.

Because some polling places used in the April primary did not wish to perform the same duty in the June election, election officials were forced to send residents interim information while looking for new voting spots, he said.

“They canceled, so we sent them our address on Temple Street,” Giles said. Voters who believe they were mailed wrong polling place addresses may call election officials at a toll-free number, (877) 888-3891, for updated information.