ALL-MAIL CITY ELECTION SEES HIGHER TURNOUT.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer BURBANK - Voter participation in last week's all-mail general election increased 2 percent over the February primary - and was higher than the city's 2003 general election, officials said. Officials hailed the increase as a positive sign for the city's new all- mail voting system Noun 1. voting system - a legal system for making democratic choices electoral system legal system - a system for interpreting and enforcing the laws . ``I'm very pleased with the turnout and it seems to me the voters have gone through their period of adjustment. We barely had any ballots returned that were unsigned,'' said City Clerk In the United States, a City Clerk is an elected or appointed official who is responsible as the official keeper of the municipal records. In some places, the Clerk may be known as the "Village Clerk" or "Town Clerk". Margarita Margarita (märgärē`tä), island, 444 sq mi (1,150 sq km), in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela. With many smaller islands it constitutes the Venezuelan state of Nueva Esparta (1990 pop. 263,748). Campos Campos (käm`p  s), city (1996 pop. 391,299), Rio de Janeiro state, SE Brazil, on the Paraíba River near its mouth. .
In the city's February primary, 19.1 percent - 10,376 of 54,384 registered voters - cast ballots. In Tuesday's general election, 21.2 percent - 11,498 of the city's 54,192 registered voters - cast ballots, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. initial results. In the 2003 general election, just 17 percent of registered voters went to the polls. Subtracting 5,400 ballots returned as undeliverable un·de·liv·er·a·ble adj. Difficult or impossible to deliver: undeliverable mail. un to the City Clerk's Office, participation was even higher in Tuesday's general election: 23.6 percent, according to Campos. City Manager Mary Alvord credited the all-mail system and voter-outreach efforts for the higher turnout. ``I think the other thing is people pay attention once the field is narrowed down,'' she said. ``The signs, once they're up for eight weeks, people finally get it: 'Oh, there is a campaign.''' Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com |
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