LA TIMES:
[11/7] About 2 million ballots remain uncounted. Election officials have until Nov.30 to tally all the votes.
NOTE: Just noticed that SoCalLiberal has an excellent diary: California Attorney General Race Update
NOV.8:
- @4:01PM: As of the 11:51 a.m. update to the SOS site, Cooley’s lead has been cut to 19,189 votes; Harris’ people tell me Santa Clara County helped her close the gap, and other Democrat-heavy counties are yet to come.
- @6:52PM: As of the 5:06 p.m. update, Cooley is up by 40,958.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
[UPDATE x3]
NOTE: Explanation of the lengthy process to count the remaining ballots, which consist of:
(A) Mail-in Ballots (mailed)
(B) Mail-in Ballots (handed in at voting booths)
(C) Provisional Ballots (filled out at voting booths)
Counting is afar more laborious than one might realize, because each ballot has to be:
- reviewed for correctness,
- sorted, (a) by precinct, then (b) by name,
- cross-referenced to each respective precinct's list of names to ensure that someone has not already vote,
- last, but not least, then it must be counted.
Unfortunately, this a necessarily painstakingly tediously slow and ERROR-PRONE process. In the database world, this is called: SORT MERGE PURGE.
It ain't so easy, and it ain't quick. And with 2 million outstanding ballots (as was reported by LA-Times on Saturday) this could take some time, assuming they are doing it correctly, which I am very confident they are.
I do NOT want speed right now. I want correctness.
[UPDATE x2]
Inside Bay Area Buzz (ibabuzz.com) - COMMENT:
"I have a piece in today’s Capital Morning Report that shows that LA will be well below the state average in absentees because they do not have an aggressive vote by mail campaign. This could hurt Harris. When the counting began Orange and San Diego had more outstanding ballots than Los Angeles County."
LA TIMES: Cooley was widely seen as an early favorite in the race, thanks to a history of electoral success in Los Angeles County, where he became the first district attorney in more than 70 years to win three terms.
But Harris surprised many by leading Cooley by more than 14 percentage points in Los Angeles County.
Cooley’s lead widens, but Harris isn’t worried
Cálmate -- "When big Dem strongholds such as LA, SF, and Alameda counties finish counting their vote-by-mail and provisional ballots, Kamala D. Harris should regain the lead and finish on top."
Inside Bay Area Buzz (ibabuzz.com):
“Basically what you’re looking at is heavily skewed reporting from good Cooley counties and a lot of our best performing counties have yet to report in any significant numbers,” spokesman Brian Brokaw said a few minutes ago.
Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties posted a lot of late returns over the weekend, he said. But while Orange County might account for 8 to 9 percent of the state’s vote total when all is said and done, it has accounted for about 25 percent of the late votes posted since Tuesday, pushing the numbers in Cooley’s direction.
So, Brokaw said, when big Democratic strongholds such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Alameda counties finish counting their vote-by-mail and provisional ballots, Harris should regain the lead and finish on top.
For Previous details on this race see my diary from Election Night:
KAMALA HARRIS for CA-AG (UPDATEDx12: 100% Reported. Kamala Ahead by 0.2%!)
For more info on Kamala, and the importance of this race, here are two diaries I put up on her ...
Friday 10/29/10 ...
- Gulf Watchers Friday: GOTV-All Politics is Local: Kamala Harris/CA-AG: BP Catastrophe AUV#416
18 Months ago ...
- [Kamala D. Harris for CA-Attorney General 2010] Introducing ... (w/Videos&Pics)
SOURCE: www.sos.ca.gov
SOURCE: LA Times
SOURCE: SFGate