Nonpartisan Voting and Slim Margins
The L.A. County registrar-recorder sent absentee ballots to nonpartisan voters without instructions on how to vote in the Democratic, Republican, American Independent or Reform parties. The possibility of a nonpartisan voter voting in these party primaries was not mentioned in the mailed information. To vote for Richard Riordan for Republican gubernatorial candidate I had to go to a polling place to find out what ballot chad to punch. Probably many nonpartisan absentee voters were thus partly disenfranchised.
As there is no political party to represent the rights of nonpartisan voters, the L.A. County registrar-recorder must do a better job as an advocate for nonpartisan voters.
Richard W. Suey
Santa Monica
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One key race obscured by the race for governor was the race for best reason to vote. In third place was the Glendora recall of Paul Marshall, which succeeded by 94 votes. In second place was Los Angeles City Council District 2, where Wendy Greuel apparently won by just 55 votes out of more than 26,000 cast. The undisputed winner was the city of La Habra’s Proposition II. It passed by 5 votes out of 7,883 cast; a margin of victory of 0.063%.
Philip I. Provencio
Oceanside
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