| With an extremely close election predicted, it's worth considering when we will get the results.
Alameda County's return to low-tech voting Tuesday could make for a long evening for poll workers and leave the state's neck-and-neck Democratic gubernatorial primary undecided overnight.
The county's inability to quickly process paper ballots after shelving its electronic voting machines may make Alameda the determining factor because 5.7 percent of the state's registered Democrats live there.(AP (SJ M-N) 6/3/06)
Alameda County will likely break towards Angelides. It will be interesting to see if the early vote favors Westly and if it shifts later towards Angelides.
Of course, a disastrous result, as Dan Weitraub pointed out, a protracted ballot counting process combined with any legal fights afterward would dig the ultimate Dem nominee a hole that may be too deep to dig out of. The nasty primary battle will already give us a weakened candidate. We certainly don't need any more complications. |
