Massive changes to California’s voting systems, affecting millions of voters, has sparked fears of Iowa-style chaos on Super Tuesday
LOS ANGELES - As he looks ahead to California’s March 3 Democratic primary, Neal Kelley is having sleepless nights.
Los Angeles County - the state’s largest county with 5.4 million registered voters - has embarked on a parallel modernization program of its own. Part of its effort includes new voting machines, which are already drawing scrutiny. Orange County, too, is introducing new digital voting machines, albeit by a different manufacturer. Kelley, the county’s registrar of voters, said there are large prompts at the bottom of each screen as well as “ultra-clear” orange scroll buttons to ensure voters can see all the candidates.
In addition, election officials sent ballots to all registered voters in participating counties in the hopes of encouraging more people to vote by mail.The tradeoff is that there will be markedly fewer polling places. In Los Angeles County, for example, there will be about 970 Voting Centers open for next month’s primary, less than a quarter of the 4,500 polling places that were operating during the 2016 primary.
Lee Jackson is among the confused. A resident of La Habra Heights in Los Angeles County, the 45-year-old business development consultant said he intends to vote in the Democratic primary. But he has only “vaguely” heard about this year’s changes and isn’t sure where to find the nearest Voting Center.
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