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GHOD, this California recall is a mess. And any Californians out there should tell all their friends this is as much about Enron getting off the hook as Arnold being a mere figurehead (with no experience, he can't be anything else). If Arnold is elected, that whole energy crisis--which I lived through, being in San Francisco at the time--will be swept under the rug.
Published: October 7, 2003
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6 -- About 3.2 million Californians registered for Tuesday's recall election are voting by absentee ballot, and election officials are growing worried that counting that number of absentee votes could drag out the results of an already unwieldy election.
About 1.2 million absentee and other ballots will not be counted until well after the election, and officials said on Monday that those votes could decide a potentially close race, raising the specter of an election with no clear winner for weeks.
More than two million absentee ballots had been returned to election officials by Monday, state officials said. But 800,000 additional absentee ballots and an expected 400,000 ballots that will not be counted until after election night because of anticipated snags will not be included in preliminary results from the counties, said Stephen Weir, the clerk-recorder of Contra Costa County in Northern California and the treasurer of a statewide association of county clerks and registrars.
"If it's close, it's bloody," said Mr. Weir, who estimated that 10 percent to 12 percent of the votes statewide would be counted after election night. "The next day we're dead, and people want to know what's left to be counted, and the bottom line is we're talking about 1.2 million votes that are not counted election night."
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