League of Women Voters won't appeal San Diego mayoral ruling

SAN DIEGO The League of Women Voters of San Diego says it won't appeal a judge's ruling the city's mayoral race.

The decision is another setback for Councilwoman Donna Frye's write-in bid. On Monday, a retired Tulare County judge refused to grant the League's request that the county registrar be ordered to count all ballots cast for Frye _ including those on which voters failed to darken the oval next to her name. The judge said state election law requires that the bubble be filled in on the ballot _ siding with attorneys for Mayor Dick Murphy and County Registrar of Voters Sally McPherson.

Kay Ragan, president of League's San Diego chapter, said today (Tuesday) that appealing would appear like a partisan move on behalf of Frye. The group is nonpartisan.

Frye _ a maverick city councilwoman and surf-shop owner _ came up 22-hundred votes short against Murphy when vote-tallying ended Friday. The League of Women Voters estimates that 4,000 Frye voters failed to darken the oval; an attorney for the Frye campaign says the number could be much higher.

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With each passing day, our democracy dies another death. The loopholes and games that allow the losers to claim victory is destroying the very fabric of this nation.

No eligible voter should ever be disenfranchised on a technicality!

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-Laelth

Why isn't the league of Women Voters appealing the case? That makes no sense to me. Equity is on their side!

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-Laelth

for those damn voting machines and she got thousands and thousand of emails, and I personally did not renew my dues, and after almost all of her members went against her she endorsed the paper trail. She is a fraud, a republican in heart if not in deed, in my mind.

Stealing votes that are clearly marked is a crime or should be.
Hell didn't they have to write out the name? What more does it take?

Lets march

To NOT appeal actually comes across as partisan, i.e., rolling over for the status quo.

If a person writes in a name, it is not unrealistic to assume that you don't need to fill in the oval as well.

It's a CLEAR indication of the voter's intent. All of those votes should be counted, regardless of which party it favors.

I am SO disappointed in the LOWV. What a disgrace to themselves.

Have to re-think my contribution this coming year.