EDITORIAL COUNTING VOTES COUNTY REGISTRAR PRESSURED TO TALLY FLAWED BALLOTS.IT may have been the pressure of 32,000 people who signed petitions that forced acting Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan Logan, city (1990 pop. 32,762), seat of Cache co., N Utah, on the Logan River; inc. 1859. It is the center of an irrigated dairy and farm area, with huge cheese plants, other food-processing facilities, and diverse manufactures. to do the right thing and count the thousands of votes that were nearly discarded dis·card v. dis·card·ed, dis·card·ing, dis·cards v.tr. 1. To throw away; reject. 2. a. To throw out (a playing card) from one's hand. b. . About 50,000 ballots cast by independent voters in the Feb.5 primary election have so far been uncounted because of the so-calleddouble-bubble design. These ballots required voters to fill out an extra box indicating which party's primary they were voting in, even though the choice of presidential candidate made that obvious. But many voters were not given proper instructions, and though they clearly marked their choices for president, their ballots were not included in final counts. Logan now says he will remedy that situation in time to certify cer·ti·fy v. cer·ti·fied, cer·ti·fy·ing, cer·ti·fies v.tr. 1. a. To confirm formally as true, accurate, or genuine. b. the vote next week. It may not change the outcome of the election. And it will take extra work to go through each of those 50,000 ballots. But that hardly matters when it's a question of preserving trust in the democratic process. These days, it's hard enough getting voters to the polls. Throwing away the votes of those who do bother to invest time in the American democracy is unconscionable Unusually harsh and shocking to the conscience; that which is so grossly unfair that a court will proscribe it. When a court uses the word unconscionable to describe conduct, it means that the conduct does not conform to the dictates of conscience. . |
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