Tuesday, November 9, 2010
I should be careful what I wish for
It now looks like Steve Cooley, the Republican District Attorney from Los Angeles, will win the election for California state Attorney General. He moved ahead of Kamala Harris, the Democratic District Attorney from San Francisco, as more of the absentee ballots are counted. The absentee ballots often favor Republicans, since older, whiter and richer people are more likely to vote by absentee. (I always vote that way since it's easier - the ballot comes in the mail and I can fill it out at home and send it in and avoid the polling places. Any registered voter can be a "permanent absentee" voter. Why not have all elections that way and save money?) So now Prop 8 and its supporters have the California Attorney General defending it. But the next trial starts in less than a month, before he takes office. So will the courts let him defend it? Who knows? If the case is appealed to the US Supreme Court he can defend it there. Plus now our Attorney General will be reluctant to defend gay rights or any other progressive/liberal group or law.
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I don't think we've heard the final word on this yet. On Nov 7th the LA times reported that there were still over a million ballots left to be counted. Unless we somehow made it through all of those ballots in the last two days, the jury is still out on this race.
ReplyDeleteAnd just as a fun factoid, Oregon and Washington vote exclusively by mail.
It seems that the more votes that are counted the wider Cooley's lead becomes.
ReplyDeleteMy state Assemblyperson (what an awkward word) tried to get a bill passed to let the county that I live in have an all-mail election as a trial, but the governor vetoed it. It would have saved a lot of money.