Voter influx could lead to polling trouble

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Voter influx could lead to polling trouble

By Sam Stanton -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PDT Wednesday, October 27, 2004

County elections officials across the state have been swamped in recent days with tens of thousands of last-minute voter registration forms, leading to predictions of problems at some polling places and delays in counting absentee ballots.

The crush of new forms has come mostly from last-minute dumps by the secretary of state's office, which has processed 500,000 new-voter forms in the last few weeks and passed them on to counties.

"We got 10 trays today, with probably 300 or so in each tray," El Dorado County Recorder-Clerk Bill Schultz said Tuesday. "They just brought them in from the post office."

The story is the same throughout the state. In Los Angeles, officials received 17,000 forms Monday to add to the 35,000 they received earlier from Secretary of State Kevin Shelley
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Alameda County had processed 30,000 recently received forms Monday, then got three more boxloads that day.

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