At Least 12,563 Riverside County, California, Ballots Can’t be Counted Because Elections Officials Didn’t Visit Post Office
Posted on | June 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
At Least 12,563 Riverside County, California, Ballots Can’t be Counted Because Elections Officials Didn’t Visit Post Office
At Least 12,563 Riverside County, California, Ballots Can’t be Counted Because Elections Officials Didn’t Visit Post Office
June 17th, 2010
California law says absentee ballots must arrive in the hands of election officials by closing hour on election day, or they can’t be counted. This story shows that at least 12,563 Riverside County absentee ballots won’t be counted, because they were not put into the hands of election officials until the day after the election.
The post office and elections officials generally depend on election officials visiting post offices and picking up ballots on election day. But the 12,563 ballots in the Moreno Valley postal processing center were not picked up on election day. Election officials say they expected the ballots to be in the Riverside post office, and thus didn’t visit the Moreno Valley post office on election day.
Before 1961, California absentee ballots were valid if they had been postmarked by election day. But in the 1960 presidential election, votes counted by the day after the election showed John F. Kennedy carrying California in the presidential election. It took several weeks for the 1960 absentee ballots to be counted, and when they had been counted, it turned out Richard Nixon had carried California. Democrats in the state legislature were so upset by this unexpected reversal that they changed the law, to provide that only absentee ballots in the hands of election officials by election day would be valid.
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3 Responses to “At Least 12,563 Riverside County, California, Ballots Can’t be Counted Because Elections Officials Didn’t Visit Post Office”
Jim Riley Says:
June 17th, 2010 at 7:56 am
This article says that county officials expected them to be in Redlands (which is just across the county line in San Bernadino County). The post office says they switched to Moreno Valley after the November 2008 election, and that county election officials had picked them up in subsequent elections at Moreno Valley.
https://www.nctimes.com/news/local/swcounty/article_3ca41dab-8226-546e-993c-331ee2abefc0.html
Craig M. Says:
June 17th, 2010 at 8:10 am
The number is very significant and could have changed the outcome of some elections 🙁
Mark Seidenberg Says:
June 17th, 2010 at 8:51 am
That could put the race between Nightingale and Robinson
in dispute. Look at the numbers. Since after the Canvass on July 6, 2010, Prop. 14 will go into effect on
Midnight on Wednesday June 9, 2010.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American Independent Party.
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June 17th, 2010 @ 11:13 pm
Another anomaly is that the percentage of the vote for Orly in both Riverside and San Bernardino Counties was exactly 27.2% even with these 12,563 absentee not counted in Redlands Post Office which is definitely San Bernardino County.