Election Day

Just wanted to thank everyone who turned out yesterday. Turnout was much larger than anticipated! We should be on the look out for election results mid-next week. And - I promise- I’ll get those up at dlanc.com

UPDATE: For those who care to watch people count ballots check out the City Clerks page:

http://cityclerk.lacity.org/election/ncdocs/Tally%20Change%20of%20Venue.pdf

Due to the high number of ballots cast, the tally for the following Neighborhood Council elections will be conducted at Piper Technical Center on Friday, June 13, 2008

Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council 2:00 P.M.

City of Los Angeles Office of the City Clerk Election Division Piper Technical Center

555 Ramirez Street 3rd Floor, Space 300 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Phone: (213) 978-0444 (888) 873-1000 Fax: (213) 978-0376

According to Sandra Mendoza, City Clerk who is running the election, there are over 1900 votes cast.1100 votes by mail and 800 regular on site ballots.

Preliminary results may not be ready until Monday or Tuesday. Then there will be a 5 day period for and contesting of votes (there will be some issues of confusion that will need to be resolved). Then about a week to answer any disputes. Then the results are certified as final, in about 2 weeks.

Huh? Two weeks to count 1900 ballots? What century is this? What Third World country is this?

I’m sending out an email based on the original schedule from the Clerk’s office regarding the timeline for challenges and final reports….

According to the insert in my ballot, vote by mail ballots went out late. I know the ballot I got was probably not going to counted by a machine either.

City law requires an independent election administer and rather than continue to contract that work out in the past for all the NCs elections, the City wisely realized bringing the work in house would be a long term benefit including to the integrity of the vote counting as the role of NCs increases in public decision making.

I do believe this round of NC elections are among the first the City Clerk is running. And while the bureaucratic gears of the City don’t always shift perfectly but for a 200-year-old machine, this project has moved at lightening speed.

DLANC Candidate Preliminary Results

These are NOT final. There are still a small number of vote by mail and other provisional ballots that must be counted. Those votes may only affect a very few tight races. Russ

DLANC Candidate Preliminary Results Candidate Slot Name

ACE, professional artist (1) Brady Westwater 44 ACE, professional artist (1) Adam Grant 0

Arts, Cultural & Education (2) Victor Rodriquez 15 Arts, Cultural & Education (2) Anna Danielle Duran 33 Arts, Cultural & Education (2) Edgar Varela 28 Arts, Cultural & Education (2) Erglae “Jovie” Gomez 2 Arts, Cultural & Education (2) Shane Guffogg 43

At Large (1) Akiliah Manuel Mills 32 At Large (1) Alex Cha 256 At Large (1) Ashley Stracke 51 At Large (1) Don Garza 151 At Large (1) Lewis L. Wong 24 At Large (1) Whitney H. Smith 56

Business Alameda East (1) Lapchih Fan 0

Business Area Wide (1) Hal Bastian 87 Business Area Wide (1) Sanjeev Chowdhry 16

Business CCE/ Toy District (1) James Doizaki 8

Business City West (1) David Hurtado 2

Business Downtown Center (1) Jon Toklas 74 Business Downtown Center (1) Shiraz Tangri 8

Business Fashion District (1) Brandon Coburn 1 Business Fashion District (1) Robyn Horwitz 0

Business Historic Downtown (1) Delaphine Carlisle 3 Business Historic Downtown (1) Michael Delijani 73 Business Historic Downtown (1) Jon Van Schaik 2

Business South Park (1) Michael (Mike) Pfeiffer 32 Business South Park (1) William “Maxwell Billieon” Moore 0

Resident Alameda East (1) Michael Francesconi 2

Resident area-wide (1) Jerry Blackwell 18 Resident area-wide (1) Jessica Jordan 77 Resident area-wide (1) Johnathan Glover 21 Resident area-wide (1) Russell Brown 97

Resident Area-wide artist (1) Daveed Kapoor 0 Resident Area-wide artist (1) Dawna Nolan 6 Resident Area-wide artist (1) Erik Dixon 1

Resident Bunker Hill (1) Danielle Reed 6 Resident Bunker Hill (1) Kenneth Chiu 12 Resident Bunker Hill (1) Russell Chan 34

Resident Central City East (1) General Jeff 34 Resident Central City East (1) Jessyka Quintero-Mova 13 Resident Central City East (1) Robert Donnell Lockhart 8 Resident Central City East (1) “Velvet” Yvette Victorian 5

Resident City West (1) Jerard Wright * 6 Resident City West (1) Mamta Patel * 6

Resident Civic Center (1) Daniel Swartz 3 Resident Civic Center (1) George Brandon Martin 17 Resident Civic Center (1) Stanley B. Michaels 45

Resident Fashion District (1) Peter (Gurnz) Gurnzey 1 Resident Fashion District (1) ANT 6

Resident Historic Downtown (1) Dwight Johnson 10 Resident Historic Downtown (1) Kris Sandheinrich 4 Resident Historic Downtown (1) Patricia (Patti) Berman 25

Resident Homeless (1) Henry Proctor 5

Resident South Park (1) Jesse Rhinea 3 Resident South Park (1) Marc Tuori 2 Resident South Park (1) Mary Wentz * 9 Resident South Park (1) MariaFadli 1 Resident South Park (1) Scott Bytof * 9 Resident South Park (1) Marvin Fleming 0

Social Service Provider (3) Antoinette Falice 32 Social Service Provider (3) Elizabeth (Betsy) Kelly 14 Social Service Provider (3) Mai L Lee 18 Social Service Provider (3) Shannon Parker 16 Social Service Provider (3) Victor Moller 8 Social Service Provider (3) Wendell Blassingame 44

Workforce, private sector (1) Ashley Zarella 24

Workforce, public sector (1) Gunnar Hand 66 Workforce, public sector (1) Sylvia Delgado 10

67 candidates

• Tie votes will be resolved with a coin toss in the presence of the two tied candidates, or their official representatives

My rough math says that’s only 1673 votes so far – that leaves 225 to be counted…

Could even be more outstanding votes to be tabulated considering residential stake-holders can cast votes in multiple races?

There was some confusion when I voted; the people at the check in table did not even know that Arts was a category. They tried to get me to also check business, and give me a business ballot, even though the instructions clearly stated that only one category was to be checked. Luckily the people who distributed the ballots corrected this, but there was nobody at the check in area who knew this.

Not that many are left. I was told that there were 1100 vote by mail ballots sent out. However, at 9 pm last night, they said that only half of those were returned. So that is the discrepancy. I think there are less than 20 ballots left. Again, these are preliminary.

Assuming this count is accurate, Congratulations Russell – BH-Resident Dir.

Got the votes up on the DLANC website…I thought they might be revised…but now - looks like that’s it.

According to Mayor Sam this morning: “mail-in ballots were not counted in the unofficial votes total last week.”

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/