Post by Logan on Apr 25, 2016 3:52:08 GMT -6
Sample ballot for the June 7 California Senate primary. (Los Angeles County)
How California's U.S. Senate ballot could cause problems for the June 7 primary
If elections officials could send just one message to California's 17.2 million registered voters about the U.S. Senate primary in June, it would probably be this: Read the instructions carefully.
"It's not necessarily intuitive on how to properly mark this ballot," said Kammi Foote, registrar of voters for Inyo County. And a mistake could keep a ballot from counting.
On primary day, the race to replace retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer will feature 34 candidates. Only four of those candidates have received appreciable support in public polling so far, and five will appear at the first Senate debate Monday night.
But the full field is larger than any single roster of statewide contenders since the colossal list of 135 candidates who ran in the 2003 special election that recalled then-Gov. Gray Davis. (To make the ballot, candidates must pay about $3,500 or collect 10,000 signatures.)
Read more: www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-senate-primary-ballot-confusion-20160425-story.html