Anyone seen the "random" placement of candidates on the CA ballot?

[lebkuchen]

Thankfully, with 169 candidates running, the fairest way to list them was random and not alphabetical. Random, after all, is fair.

Arianna was listed at 154 on page 7, Tom McClintock number 125 on page 6, Cruz Bustamante is number 164 on page 7.

Care to wager a guess as to who was randomly chosen as the first listing, page one?

[LiberalVoice]

1. hmmm?

Arny maybe?
or no Gary Coleman? or was it that porn star?
do u have a link to that info...i would like to take a look at it.

[lebkuchen]

3. A family member sent the sample ballot to me as a jpg attachment

Yep. Arnie tops the list. What a coincidence, like Cheney's Halliburton getting billions of dollars worth of no-bid military contracts.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Der Arnold?

Jawvohl? Nein?

--bkl

[lebkuchen]

4. Can you believe it?

Out of all those candidates, too~!

[Journeyman]

5. The order and placement of all names. . .

varies with every polling district.

In my district, all names are listed in three columns on one side of a single two-page spread. Cruz Bustamante is the second name in the first column, Arnold Schwarznegger is the eighth name in the first column, Arianna Huffington is near the bottom of the third column, while Tom McClintock is near the middle of the third column.

By the way, there are only some 135 candidates running.

[lebkuchen]

6. What district are you?

The ballot I'm looking at is San Diego County.

[Journeyman]

8. What difference does that make. . .

since the order and placement varies from district to district?

[lebkuchen]

10. If I were a candidate, I'd rather be placed at #1 in the most populated

conservative counties. I'd take position #1 in San Diego Co. over, say, Merced or Alpine, anyday.

I wonder what county Bustamonte got for the top position. With the number of candidates running, it's highly possible he never made the first page.

[lazarus]

7. of the 179 candidates on my ballot

Arnold is listed at 177. It changes.

Bill Simon is #2. That should garner him a few votes.

[lebkuchen]

9. I thought Simon had dropped out.

What county ballot are you looking at?

[LiberalVoice]

11. i smell fish.

169?177?135? whats up with that?

[lebkuchen]

12. As if anyone thought this recall would be a fair election...

But I'd be willing to bet that Schwartzie has a favorable spot on the ballot in every heavily populated conservative county in the state.

After all, he only needs to get one vote more than the next candidate if Yes's overrule No's.

The Chimpster "won" by less than that.

[xchrom]

13. can we get an average

of where he's listed in all the counties?
if he's at the top or near the top more than the rest -- wel you can see where i'm headed with this.

[lebkuchen]

14. In San Diego County, Arnie is the first candidate listed

I don't know how to get the information you ask for unless CA posters here are willing to divulge their county in which they vote.

The ballot I'm looking at says "San Diego County Official Ballot." If the ballot changed from district to district, wouldn't the ballot say "District #23 Official Ballot?"