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GELFAND’S WORLD-The neighborhood council elections were, in some sense, the final gasp of the lockdown. There were rules upon rules, complexity upon complexity, and the result was that people who had usually voted didn t show up. But there is more to the story. For the past few years, the neighborhood council elections have been run by the office of the City Clerk. They occur every two years, in the year that does not coincide with the general elections. We now have the entire city s results which you can check out here. It s not a pretty picture. At one time, neighborhood councils ran their own elections. It is still possible to do so if you put up with some absurd requirements. One is that voters have to sign their ballots. (Don t ask.) Needless to say, some would-be voters don t want to have their voting preferences made public and therefore avoid casting a ballot. ....
EASTSIDER-If you really think about it, the Skid Row Neighborhood Council Formation Committee’s election in 2017 is actually a story about massive election fraud in Los Angeles. It just happened in a Subdivision Election for Neighborhood Councils, instead of a regular election for our elected officials. I don’t know why this is OK for the Neighborhood Council system, when it is patently illegal for regular City Elections. My thought is that if Mike Feuer wants to have any legitimacy at all in the race for Mayor in 2022, he should fix the fix on Skid Row’s election, which is still tied up in a hostile court fight. ....