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Public raises election administration and voter-roll concerns; registrar defends county procedures
Summary
Speakers told supervisors that a North Kern–South Tulare hospital district race did not appear on Tulare County ballots and urged an investigation; the registrar of voters said Kern properly notified Tulare and that county responsibilities are limited to notifying other counties and running Kern ballots.
Several residents and advocacy groups used the March 11 public comment period to raise concerns about election administration in Kern County and neighboring Tulare County.
Tom Pavich of the Election Integrity Project California told the board the North Kern–South Tulare Hospital District race did not appear on Tulare County ballots in November and that Tulare failed to include the contest, potentially disenfranchising Tulare County voters. “Tulare County failed to include the race on its ballot and Kern County failed to pick up the mistake,” Pavich said, and he asked the board to investigate what went wrong and…
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