Count ballots, supervisors say
County elections officials should devise a way to count as many of the estimated 50,000 disqualified ballots as possible from last week’s primary election as soon as possible, supervisors told Interim Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan on Tuesday.
The votes were disqualified when independent voters who wanted to vote in the Democratic primary failed to mark a bubble that indicated they were voting as a Democrat.
Logan told the board that the practice, which was used only in Los Angeles County, would be discontinued. Most of the disqualified ballots, about 57%, originated in the 37th Congressional District, which includes Long Beach, Compton and Signal Hill, Logan said.
Supervisors also approved a $1.7-million online system to better train poll workers.
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