City Clerk details candidate filing, ballot model and vote-by-mail procedures for Region 4 neighborhood council elections

Michael Ekrich, an election administrator with the Los Angeles City Clerk’s Neighborhood Council Election and Funding Division, outlined how the office applies each Neighborhood Council’s bylaws to create a ballot voting model and described candidate filing and the all vote‑by‑mail model for Region 4.

Ekrich said the City Clerk’s office “was only funded to provide an all vote by mail election for neighborhood councils this year,” and walked through how bylaws' Article 3 (boundaries), Article 4 (stakeholder types), Article 5 (governing board) and Article 10 (election rules) determine who can run and who receives which ballot.

The office uses a ballot voting model—a blueprint that lists the neighborhood council name and abbreviation, ballot types and counts, board seats up for election, term lengths, voter age, stakeholder verification type and any candidate restrictions. Ekrich described the four stakeholder categories used across Neighborhood Councils: residents, people who work in the boundary, real‑property owners and “community…