(CA) Governor OKs return of primaries to June

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Governor OKs return of primaries to June

ASSOCIATED PRESS

September 28, 2004

SACRAMENTO – California is conceding defeat in its quest for more clout in picking presidential nominees and going back to its traditional June primary election.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation yesterday that will move the primary from the first Tuesday in March to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June, a date the state had used for 50 years.

The Republican governor also signed several other election-related bills, including one that will bar the use of electronic voting machines that don't produce paper trails to verify votes and another that allows military personnel and their family members stationed overseas to vote by facsimile machine.

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