Friday, February 2, 2007

Mail-In Balloting

According to the Santa Barbara Independent - which I've been reading voraciously ever since the News-Press imploded - Burbank is the only city in California to use all mail-in balloting.

Huh. I didn't know that. This, of course, would affect the upcoming municipal elections. Now, as I'm sure y'all remember, we all voted via the regular way, but that was for state and federal elected office, not city-only.

According to the news reports around that time, the mail-in madness cost the city more and failed to stem the ever-depressing turnout decline. Why are we doing this?

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