it seems to vary every election so need to actually pay attention

if someone thinks it's worth it.

I am in Sacramento. In Oregon, mail in - that is the only way.

We have vote by mail and that alleviates stress at polling places.

ill prepared for those voting on election day.

There is of course the possibility that registrations may be changed without the voter being aware until he goes to the polling place, or gets his ballot in the mail. But we can't know any of that yet. The ballot won't even be mailed out for another three weeks or so.

Statistically, it would be impossible to not have some screw ups.

I agree it is the BIGGEST and BEST state in the union, but somehow,
it FAILS to have the problems these smaller less significant states have.

how odd.

In a state the size of California a problem affecting even 0.1% of voters can mean a lot of unhappy people. I suspect a lot of it will be "independent" voters who registered in the American Independent Party thinking it was the same as non-partisan and not bothering to correct it until they're given the AIP ballot at the polling place. And there will be a handful of voters who think they're registered, but either moved and forgot to re-register, or haven't voted in several consecutive elections and have fallen off the roster. In other words, the usual. May the Sec. of State should post something on reddit, since that seems to be where a lot of people get election information these days

Of course, we can always have a mid-sized earthquake in a major population center just before the primary, which would not be fun.

I wonder if those in charge in at least some counties, or state level, have a disaster back-up voting plan... The only reason not to would be financial woes. Earthquake, tsunami, wildfire, flooding and debris flows, volcanoes erupting in the middle of a major city, all hardly unforeseeable...



I miss California!

Waiting for my absentee ballot to vote by mail.

And surprise...my 18 year old is a Hillary supporter. I have been leaning to Bernie, but if it looks close, I might go with Hillary - my daughter is very persuasive.

I fear NY stealing our thunder.
I prefer the Sandstorm concludes here.
we are number one.
and the last in line.

I'm old-school -- I've always enjoyed going to the polling station and casting my vote. As VBM has become more common I've noticed the polls are easy-breezy with zero crowding and no waiting.

you want to recount a razor thin GMO labeling bill.
or for that matter, not recall your twice elected governor and vote for some
singular nobody out of over 100 candidates.
you look at the Total Recall results deep enough and you will know
there were serious hijinks.
not a safe state for democracy.

but we probably wont run out of ballots, or form ridiculous lines.

last place.

I voted for Larry Flint in that one.

which is why those UTTER nobodies who pulled in some small number of votes
from unrelated counties with high numbers of Mexicans, yet jack squat from their own
backyards?

you follow me?
serious monkey business.
End run on Cruz Bustamante,
if nothing else.

I swear, it's like some of the Sanders supporters have been living on another planet for the past few decades and now somehow find themselves trying to fit in on planet Earth.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

Combine electoral inexperience with an Intarwebz-fueled conspiracist mindset, a lifetime of being coddled and cuddled and never being told "No", and the modern tendency to want to HAVE an argument while never having learned to FORM an argument and you get. . .

this.

You get this, and this sucks.

you in the right thread?

But how do you explain long-time DUers, then, who also don't seem to grasp the difference between a party primary and a GE?

At any rate, with the dying out of the white male power structure (it's slow and it's messy but it's happening), I suppose the newbies who are paying attention now are trying to fill the void. We're probably in the midst of a sea-change in politics and it's going to be bumpy for a while.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

affiliations being switched and voter purging in CA. People can call their Registrar of Voters to confirm both registration and affliation, and request a Voter Notification Card be mailed to them.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/registration-status/