Reply #2: Just like the memory cards were just lost in New Hampshire

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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-vote7feb07,1,1380058.story

Spurred by confusion over Tuesday's voting, acting Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan said Wednesday that his office will examine more than 94,000 ballots cast by nonpartisan voters to determine how many votes for presidential candidates may have gone uncounted.

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More than 19% of the state's voters are registered as "decline to state," compared with 43% who are registered Democratic. (Typically, however, nonpartisans have a significantly lower turnout than party members.)

Exit polls showed that Sen. Barack Obama had a strong appeal among California voters who defined themselves as independent (regardless of their party registration), leading Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton by 58% to 34% in this category.

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Judy Silk of Pacific Palisades, who said she was recruited to work at the polls at the last minute and never received training, said in an e-mail that she witnessed what she later realized were "glaring mistakes."

None of the poll workers seemed to be aware that nonpartisan voters needed to mark a party bubble, she said. An urgent notice sent out by Bowen's office advising poll workers of independent voters' rights never reached them.