"Touch Screen Voters Set Record"

The Los Angeles Times has just posted this report. Although the report is about early touch screen voting in Los Angeles County, perhaps more significant is this statistic: "County election officials have sent out 531,000 absentee ballots and have received 310,00 in return. Statewide, more than 1.6 million of the 3.1 million absentee ballots issued statewide have been sent back."
So anyone trying to figure out how the last minute news about Arnold Schwarzenegger may affect the electoral outcome should not forget that a significant number of voters have already cast their ballots without access to that news.

Posted by Rick Hasen at October 3, 2003 05:21 PM