California State Court May Order Late Riverside County Ballots to be Counted

On July 1, a Superior Court Judge in Riverside County, California, ordered Riverside County elections officials not to certify the votes cast in the June 8 primary, until the next court hearing.  The lawsuit contends that approximately 12,000 mail ballots should be counted.  The lawsuit appears to be one in which both the plaintiff and the defendant are actually on the same side, with each hoping for a court order that the ballots should be counted.  See this story.

The ballots have not been counted yet because state election law says mail ballots can’t be counted unless they are in the hands of elections officials by 8 p.m. on election day.  The Riverside County ballots would have been delivered on time, except that the Riverside County elections department send an employee to the wrong post office to collect the ballots.  Unbeknownst to the elections officials, the post office had them in a different post office than the post office the elections officials visited.


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California State Court May Order Late Riverside County Ballots to be Counted — 3 Comments

  1. No Mark, it will not drastically alter the vote totals between Robinson or Nightingale.
    If Robinson couldn’t win in his own county, then Riverside will be no Robinson stronghold. Besides, most of those ballots will be with the major parties.

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  3. ’bout time someone told the truth about what happened.

    It wasn’t the post offices fault – the idiot registrar sent their employee to the wrong post office to pick up the mail.

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