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November 28, 2006
November 28, 2006 - December 11, 2006
Volume XVII, Issue 24
In This Issue...
Fishing for the Future
Art House Movies Coming to Aptos Cinema
Supervisors Agree on Affordable Housing Locations
Capitola Awarded $2 Million Grant for Senior Housing Project
Mid-County Schools Pay the Price for Fewer Students
Search For County Trash Facility Heats Up Again
Minor Tsunami Rocks Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor
New Holiday Website Launched
A Fond Farewell
Farm Park and Community Center Project Approved
Historic Redman House to be Moved this Month
Holidays d’Eleganz â€" the Dominican Foundation Guild’s Annual Fashion Show and Gala
911
CRIMEBEAT
Joint Agency Gang Team
Business
Fleur Gifts, Home and Garden Boutique
Elections 2008
Final Ballot Counting Continues
Health
Live Oak School Nutrition Program Earns High Marks
Eating Healthy During the Holidays
Overuse Injuries of the Lower Extremities in Women
Opinions
Postmarked
People
Evelyn Volpa Reflects on a Life Spent Taking a Stand
Science
Tiny Marine Organisms May Indicate Big Global Changes
Travel
The Mary Poppins Guide to Vegas
The Mid-County Post > Elections 2008
Final Ballot Counting Continues
Ballots with Signatures Tossed Out
By Michael Thomas
The race for one seat on Capitola’s City Council re-mained undecided as of Monday, Nov. 27, with County elections staff still working through a final canvas of the Nov. 7 election. Results must be posted by Dec. 5 and may appear sooner.

In initial results, Maureen O’Malley Moore had a three point lead over Ronald Graves for the Council seat, but about 600 absentee ballots from Capitola have since been tallied.

However, votes cast by individuals using the wrong precinct’s provisional ballot are still being manually transferred to the appropriate ballots for counting.

Even over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, a handful of election workers were at their jobs working on the remaining counts, but the final canvass was still several days away.

County Clerk Gail Pellerin explained that the office is also weeding out ballot cards that voters marked with their initials or, in some cases, signed. Marking the ballot invalidates the anonymity of the vote.

By law, they must be tossed out, and the switch to a single card this year means the voter’s choices in every race will be lost. The law is meant to prevent fraud such as candidates or supporters “buying” votes. Pellerin said County legal staff was reviewing the law.
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