COUNTY, CA- With voter registration across California at an all-time high, millions of people were expected to head to the polls to cast their votes in Tuesday’s presidential primary election. That number seems rather sad to me since it is a presidential primary, after all.
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Making for an even bigger problem is that many California primary votes are not only said to be uncounted but also missing.
ACR 145 was announced back in March, urging Secretary of State Alex Padilla to provide an additional, nonpartisan presidential ballot that lists all the qualified candidates so that voters have an opportunity to cast a ballot for the candidate of their choosing.
As of Friday morning, Bernie Sanders had 43.2 percent or 1,502,043 votes.
Trump, who was the last candidate standing in a crowded Republican field after being bolstered by early wins in key states, has been the party’s presumptive nominee following a decisive win in last month’s in primary.
Many of those NPP voters are young people only recently eligible to participate – the same kind of voters who gave energy and manpower to Obama’s campaigns. Correa, a Democrat, was leading the field of eight with 41.7 percent of the vote, followed by Republican Bob Peterson at 14.6 percent, Garden Grove Councilman Bao Nguyen at 13.8 percent and fellow Democrat Joe Dunn at 12.6 percent.
State Attorney General Kamala Harris lapped the field with 40 percent of the vote, while Rep. Loretta Sanchez finished second with just 18.5 percent.
The survey of unprocessed ballots at all 58 county elections offices included 616,000 outstanding ballots in the most populous county, Los Angeles. The county reported zero ballots with damage. Statewide, almost three-quarters of Republican voters cast a ballot for him.
Republicans had appeared unified after Trump vanquished his last opponents about a month ago. Bernie Sanders announced his support for District of Columbia statehood.
Several seats are likely to be top targets for the national political parties, including those held by Republicans David Valadao of the Central Valley and Steve Knight of the Los Angeles area.
There is no evidence this “Grand Theft Voto” is part of a massive scheme by Hillary supporters to swipe the election. He will run against Republican incumbent Joel Fry in November’s general election.
Most of this procedural nonsense, like the need to surrender an NPP ballot with an envelope and request a “crossover” ballot – well, frankly, Bernie’s campaign has known about that all year. In the rat maze called the American voting system, the painfully amateur Sanders campaign never provided a vote-guiding map. Jerry Brown meant to play Bull Connor.
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For Clinton or the Democrats to keep pushing Sanders aside, after they have already clinched the nomination, exposes an insecurity about their strength within the party and a trace of vindictiveness toward the candidate that made Clinton work so hard for so long. That’s what they did this year, as possibilities like former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and onetime California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, among many others, fell by the wayside early on. Look at your ballot carefully and be sure to cast only one vote for USA senator or your vote will not count. This issue receives strong support from communities of color.
