Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumMassive changes to California voting spark fears of Iowa-style primary chaos
POLITICS FEBRUARY 25, 2020 / 7:38 AM / UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO
Tim Reid 9 MIN READ
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As he looks ahead to Californias March 3 Democratic primary, Neal Kelley is having sleepless nights.
Kelley is the elections chief for Orange County, part of a wave of California counties rolling out sweeping new balloting procedures affecting millions of voters in the nations most populous state.
He has good reason to be worried.
Memories of the chaos that plagued Iowas first-in-the-nation caucuses on Feb. 3 have election officials nationwide looking to avoid similar embarrassment. Iowas results were delayed for days, in part because of the failure of an unproven vote-counting app.
Some mammoth California counties are unveiling their own new voting technology. Theyre also eliminating thousands of polling places in the hopes that voters will make use of expanded mail-in balloting or take advantage of extended early in-person voting.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-california/massive-changes-to-california-voting-spark-fears-of-iowa-style-primary-chaos-idUSKBN20J1J7
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
highplainsdem
(48,889 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
dexdah
(45 posts)Mail-in ballots will take time to count. Thats how I voted. And I think delayed results will be the norm going forward. Pundits may decry this, but if all the votes are correctly counted and totaled, Im ok with that.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Retrograde
(10,127 posts)Can't speak for Orange county, but mine - Santa Clara - is doing something similar. All registered voters got a mail-in ballot, with postage-paid envelope, and so far two separate mailings on how to return the ballots. A lot of local polling places were eliminated (including mine) but OTOH there are more early voting locations throughout the county, and a number of new voting centers (I'll have to check these out): you can now vote at any one in the county.
Of course, this depends on voters actually reading the voters' guides and additional mailings.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided