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Some 2,328 local voters will have no polling place in the Nov. 4
election, so they will be mailed ballots with postage-paid return
envelopes.
Some 2,328 local voters will have no polling place in the Nov. 4 election, so they will be mailed ballots with postage-paid return envelopes.
This is because they live in areas too sparsely populated to justify setting up a poll, according to county elections official Gail Pellerin. These voters are in addition to those who already had requested to vote by mail.
The situation is made more complicated by an unusually high number of different ballots — 144 — that have to be printed throughout the county because of overlapping jurisdictions, Pellerin said.
Countywide, 8,259 voters will be without polling places. Of those, 1,524 are in San Lorenzo Valley, 750 are in Scotts Valley and 54 are in Bonny Doon.
Pellerin said the county elections department will go to extra lengths to minimize any feelings of disenfranchisement among voters.
Rather than mail in the ballots, voters can deposit them at any polling place in the county or take it to the elections office in the county office building in Santa Cruz by Friday, Oct. 31.
“For those voters who continue to feel disenfranchised by being assigned to a mail ballot precinct and do not trust the mail and do not want to go to a polling place where they cannot vote a regular ballot,” she noted, “we will go to their homes and pick up their ballots.”
Pellerin asked that voters wishing to take advantage of this service call her office before Election Day at 454-2060.
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