NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ELECTION CHALLENGE
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05-01-16
Yes  
Charles A. Lindenblatt
8250 Blackburn Avenue, #6, Los Angeles, California 90048

(323) 251-5509
Incorrect Ballots
       Pursuant to the Neighborhood Council 2016 Election Manual, Article XVI, Challenges, I, Charles A. Lindenblatt, am formally challenging the results of the Mid City West Community Council election, held online, in part, and in-person, in part, in the weeks leading up to, and including, May 1, 2016.
    I am challenging this election because of Incorrect Ballots (which caused voters to vote either significantly more or less for a qualified or incorrect candidate).
     The facts are as follows:
1.    Mid City West featured online voting in its election this cycle, in addition to in-person and telephone voting.
2.    The ballot said “Vote for X,” where X was the total number of seats being contested in a given category, NOT “Vote for up to X,” or, as the Los Angeles County Sample Ballot presents the Democratic County Committee candidates, “Vote for no more than X”.
3.    When people initially did not vote for X, but for X-1, or X-2, or X-3, etc., the screen prompted the voters by saying something to the effect of, you can vote for [the difference between the number the voter selected and X]. 
        It is the view of the challenger, and I believe, most other people, that facts 2 and 3 significantly encouraged those voters who had only intended to vote for one or two people, in many cases, to vote for the maximum number of candidates, likely including many candidates that they did not know.   The net effect of this is that many voters wound up hurting the chances of the very people that they were there to support.  
    Specifically, in the case of this Mid City West election, I believe that facts 2 and 3 clearly, and without any doubt, could have made a difference in the election outcome as a whole, but is the At Large category – the one in which I ran – which is the main concern here.  
    As the attached results indicate, the difference between the number of votes I received (93) and the lowest successful candidate in the At Large category (111),  is 18 votes. With all the extensively distributed campaign advertising and candidate slates that were circulating in our neighborhood, including my own ad, and some of which are attached as supporting documentation, it is certainly feasible that at least 18 voters in the At Large category (out of a maximum 328 that could vote in that category) had only intended to vote for one, or two, or a few, candidates in the At Large category, and wound up voting for more than that, i.e. the entire eight that the screen was virtually demanding people to select. 
      The challenge that I have brought really affects all candidates in the Mid City West election.  The remedy that I am asking for this is, if the eventual Election Challenge Panel hearing this matter wants to fix the entire problem, it should order a re-do of the entire election.   
      On the other hand, if it simply wants to correct the problem as it affects the At Large category, it should vacate the results of the At Large category, and have an EmpowerLA-administered selection to fill them.
Witness Information
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You can find the Witness Statement form here.
Witness 1 Contact Information
Yuval
Kremer
Witness 2 Contact Information
Steve
Luftman
(310) 503-9958
Witness 3 Contact Information
 
Attach all supporting documentation
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Signature
I affirm that I am a stakeholder in this Neighborhood Council who voted in the election and I have personal knowledge of the following challenge.
Charles A. Lindenblatt
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Staff Response
IEA Dismissed
05-10-16
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