Paper ballots waiting at polls in San Diego County

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Sunday, October 31, 2004

Paper ballots waiting at polls in San Diego County

By: GIG CONAUGHTON - Staff Writer

SAN DIEGO ---- OK voters, break out your pens and pencils. "Hanging chads" in the 2000 presidential election killed off punch-card ballots. And California's secretary of state pulled the plug ---- at least for now ---- on electronic "touch-screen" voting after problems in the March primaries.

So Tuesday, for the third consecutive election, San Diego County voters will have to adjust to a different voting system. This time, it will be old-fashioned paper ballots that will ask voters to pick up pens or pencils and fill in "bubbles" next to their favorite candidates' names.

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http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/10/31/news/top_stories/23_19_4810_30_04.txt


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[flordehinojos]

1. it is wonderful, i think, that people in san diego will be voting the old

fashion way ... they will provide a paper trail should there be the need for one .... here in Florida ... we don't know if our absentee ballots (our own paper trails) will be counted, or if they will be disappeared; we don't know what the e-machines will do...jeb bush refused certify paper trails in our voting machines and though many county commissions had the money available to do so ... without jeb bush's certification they were, by law, forbidden from doing so...

que sera, sera? what will be, will be after Nov. 2nd. Democracy?
Revolution? Civil War?

God have mercy on us all!

[Spinzonner]

2. In Orange County (CA)

They get a choice. Different machines.

[aquart]

3. Like the SATs? I think people can do that.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Hey wait a second

some of us didn't do that great on the SAT's.

[Zorra]

5. San Diego County voter rolls increase by 67,000 since June

October 11, 2004

Strictly speaking, the Democratic Party in San Diego County recently gained 10,000 more new registered voters than the GOP in this traditionally Republican region.
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Many of those newly registered voters are young people who may have been energized by the presidential election and the war in Iraq, Babcock Amador said. According to his analysis of county data, 46 percent of the newly registered voters are people under the age of 30.

Among those people, 31 percent registered as Democrats, 25 percent registered as Republicans. However, a surprising 36 percent of them registered as undeclared voters, he said.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/10/12/news/top_stories/20_35_2810_11_04.txt