[courtesy of Blog for America]

The Miami Herald reports on the fate of the ballots from the 2000 presidential election in Florida:

Five years ago, the state of Florida gathered up boxes of ballots from 65 of the 67 counties and stashed them inside the cramped, air-conditioned confines of the state archives in Tallahassee.

After much hand-wringing and debate, state officials decided in 2003 that they should hold onto the more than six million votes cast in the historic election between Al Gore and George W. Bush that Bush ultimately won by just 537 votes. Normally, ballots are destroyed after 22 months.

But now Secretary of State Kurt Browning says he would just as soon junk them and free up the space in his archives that hold the ballots -- more than 4,000 cubic feet.

Danny
Communications Director

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

More than 23,000 Democrats turned out on Sunday afternoon to support more than 2,500 candidates vying for 241 congressional district-level delegate slots. The results of the historic caucuses are now available online at www.Cadem.org.
 
To view the Clinton caucus results, click here.

To view the Obama caucus results, click here.
 
PLEASE NOTE: The results posted online were reported in by the Caucus Conveners. They are not considered final and official until the original ballots are returned to the California Democratic Party Sacramento office.

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Sunday's the big day for the more than 2,300 candidates competing for 241 coveted delegate slots to go to the Democratic National Convention (including me in CD 5).

The California Democratic Party has two online tools that are worth visiting. One is a Q&A about the process; the other is a pre-registration tool to help cut down on what are expected to be busy sites.

It's terrific that this is no longer just an insiders thing. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the caucuses pull in 1,000 ballots or more.

Good luck everybody.

by Donald Lathbury [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

(Cross-posted on California Majority Report).

I'll be liveblogging the SD-3 regional endorsement battle between Senator Carole Migden, Assemblymember Mark Leno, and former Assemblymember Joe Nation. Stay tuned! This should be fun, horrifying, or a fascinating drama depending on your perspective.

[Update by Lucas] Leno campaign is reporting more than 50 Leno supporter ballots are missing.  "Disenfranchisement" is running through the room.

by F. Gluck [courtesy of Blog for America]

Please read action alert from Sheri Myers & take action!!

workthevote@gmail.com

http://www.workthevotela.org 

Please DON'T be impressed that Interim Registrar Dean Logan has condescended to (semi)count our ballots. He stalled for four weeks, while he could have hand counted them all. Now, he is scanning and digitizing the ballots and sorting the images inside a computer and counting them inside another computer!

There is ABSOLUTELY NO TRANSPARENCY to this process. Not even the mandatory 1% manual tally!

(Click Read More for the rest of this post)

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

For all those crying foul about DTS voters getting foiled in their ability to vote in the Democratic primary and how it might hurt Obama, here's a clear case where it's helping. According to this posting on politico.com, a registered Green Party voter got a Democratic ballot.

None of this is good -- DTS voters being denied Democratic ballots nor Green Party members getting Democratic ballots.
 
And this is exactly why I prefer a closed primary: so Democrats can nominate their candidate, and Greens can nominate theirs.

by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

They are still counting folks, but it continues to look good.

The way this works is that the ballot says for each individual candidate: do you want to recall X.  Then it asks if you want to replace them with somebody else.  It is taking a long time to count all of these individual votes.  Turnout is in the 300s and there were just 8 ballots turned in today.

It is probably going to take another hour or an hour and a half to get the final count.  Rick is camped out in the hallway writing up a post.  Ray Lutz is videotaping the count.  The media has already come and gone.

More later...