California's chief elections officer directs local officials to mail ballots to each of the county's 5.5 million voters for the November election.
California’s chief elections officer lashed out Thursday at the series of election day mishaps in Los Angeles County, demanding that local officials mail ballots to each of the county’s 5.5 million voters for the November election.
L.A. County’s rollout of its long-awaited voting system — including new ballot-marking machines and regional vote centers in lieu of neighborhood polling places —. Many of the voters standing in long lines were angry that they had no other way to cast a ballot in the statewide presidential primary. Los Angeles County was given special treatment under a 2016 state election law, allowing officials to close polling places without mailing a ballot to every voter.
Local elections officials have not yet tallied the total number of votes cast at one of the 978 vote centers. While many of the locations were open 10 days prior to election day, relatively few L.A. voters cast ballots during that time. “I regret not having pushed harder on L.A. County last time around,” Allen said of the negotiations over his law, the Voter’s Choice Act. “And I’m trying to fix things with this bill.”At the time, county officials insisted they didn’t have the capacity to mail everyone a ballot. The special provision was not included in the first drafts of the legislation, Senate Bill 450, but was added without fanfare during the legislative process.
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