In Vernon, Your Vote Counts
Posted By Dave Bullock / eecue On October 16, 2006 @ 11:56 pm In Breaking News, LA, Politics | Comments Disabled
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So after many months of legal battles, Vernon will finally be counting the votes in their disputed April 11th election. Hanging chads weren’t to blame in the ultra-industrial City of Vernon’s election, but instead a whopping 8 new voters who moved in to the city about a year ago. The problem with moving in to Vernon, is that there aren’t actually any residential areas, except for the houses for the city officials [2], which are located right next to Vernon’s City Hall / police station. The other problem with moving in to Vernon, is that the folks in power have been in power for generations, and they don’t like they idea of anybody else being in control of their fine, sausage-scented city.
So basically, the city officials went to court, amongst other more nefarious acts, to throw out the ballots of these 8 voters, 3 of whom were running for city council. As it turns out the judge threw the voter fraud case out of court [3] and the… wait for it… whole fucking 70 votes will now be counted. I am guessing that will be a rather short process. I don’t care how bassackwards Vernon’s political structure is, I still love riding my bike through there, plus it looks really cool from above [4].
One thing I want to know is why isn’t the Times [5] all over this shit and instead I find it on the AP wire via Mercury News out of San Jose?
Update The Times finally has a piece [6] about what is going on with the ballots in Vernon, but it is even shorter than what the AP has… way to go LAT!.
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[1] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eecue/181081374/
[2] houses for the city officials: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=19&ll=34.004614,-118.230963&spn=0.001552,0.001802&t=k
[3] threw the voter fraud case out of court: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/15775533.htm
[4] really cool from above: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=34.005285,-118.223619&spn=0.049664,0.057678&t=k&om=1
[5] isn’t the Times: http://www.latimes.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=vernon&target=blendedsearch&first-page-size=5
[6] a piece: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-briefs17.2oct17,1,6312145.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
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