Discarded ballots could be valid
Acting Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan told supervisors Tuesday he believed that at least 25,000 of the 50,000 discarded ballots from the Democratic presidential primary will end up being valid.
Supervisors told Logan earlier this month to devise a way to count all the ballots that had been disqualified from the Feb. 5 primary election. Votes were disqualified when independent voters who wanted to vote in the Democratic or American Independent party primaries failed to mark a bubble that indicated their party choice.
Voting rights activists called the ballot system confusing and collected more than 32,000 signatures urging Logan to make those discarded ballots count.
Logan said he believed that voter intent could be determined on many of the uncounted ballots and will provide a more accurate number of validated ballots once the count is complete.
-- Jean-Paul Renaud
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