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6. Holy cow, that's over 30% of votes cast not counted! San Diegans suffer the consequences.
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 04:06 PM
Jun 2016

Maybe it does not mean much to many outside California, but this is a very distressing to me as a lifelong Californian.

285,000 votes uncounted in San Diego...that's pretty disturbing especially in terms of the way our frat boy, ALEC backed Mayor Kevin Faulconeer seems to have finessed this primary to win a majority so that he doesn't have to be run in a Presidential (turnout favors Dems) election in Nov. With Faulconeer 4 more years now of talking about "fixing potholes" pretending taxpayers are not going to pay for a new Stadium for the Chargers instead of demanding nuclear waste not be stored on the ocean in San Onofre or that there be a ban on fracking in that same ocean.

Californians were cheated of a Dem debate, an invaluable and free presentation of Dem ideals, then Dems were discouraged from voting because they were told the nomination was secured by Clinton. Now over 30% of those who voted(described above as leaning Democratic) not counted.

So what we get in San Diego is the easy slide of Kevin Faulconeer to four more years as mayor without any "primetime" campaign This is awful.

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