It Could Be a Long, Quirky Ballot ( Ca Governor/200 take out papers)

In America, children are raised to believe that anyone with enough ambition, talent and luck can grow up to become president. In California, voters are about to find out that anyone with $3,500 and 65 friends can at least try to become governor.

By Thursday afternoon, with nine days to go before the deadline for declaring a candidacy in the Oct. 7 recall election, more than 200 people statewide had taken the first step of filing papers with their county registrars.

Hollywood billboard fixture Angelyne has pulled papers with the Los Angeles County registrar. So has sometime pornographer Larry Flynt.

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Roughly 50 possible candidates have paid the nonrefundable fee, raising the possibility of a ballot scores or even hundreds of names long. The standard punch-card ballot can accommodate about 300 names; after that, poll workers would have to give each voter two cards, a daunting prospect for election officials.

LA TIMES

"here just pick a name out of the LA phone book"

Oh, too bad. Ahnold Schickelgruber isn't listed.

And there will be hundreds of clowns.

I guess Issa thought his name alone would appear on this ballot.