With only a short window to prepare, will L.A. County’s Registrar Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan be ready to successfully hold the upcoming special election on Nov. 4?
The question was put to Logan during the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles, during a special appearance by Logan who responded to supervisors’ questions and concerns.
He emphasized that normally his team would have a year to set up an election. But this is a special election with a single statewide ballot measure that involves changing five congressional districts. He had just 75 days to prepare.
Logan has secured about 1,800 community workers and almost 1,600 county employees to run the Nov. 4 election in the largest county in the state. He’s established 251 in-person Vote Centers and 418 ballot drop boxes scattered throughout the county at City Halls, police stations and in front of county offices.
The number of Vote Centers is “significantly fewer” than in the last election in November 2024, he explained. Vote Centers begin opening Oct. 25. Another 140 are added for the four days before the election.
“We have met our target for this election,” he said. Well, except that he’s still looking for a few community workers with specific language skills to place at some Vote Centers.
Fifth District Supervisor Kathryn Barger said she always used the ballot drop box to deposit her ballot. Logan said they are emptied and checked every day. “There should be no excuse for people voting. There’s been a hustle to get it together and you’ve done it. I commend you and your staff,” she told Logan.
The only item on the ballot is Proposition 50, which was placed on the ballot by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state legislature. A yes vote authorizes temporary changes to congressional district maps in response to Texas’ partisan redistricting, according to the official ballot language.
The measure was a response to the…
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