Prosecutors say Mr. Bloomberg's campaign contributed the money to the Independence Party to be used for ballot security.
Based on Mr. Haggerty's representations, prosecutors said, Mr. Bloomberg's campaign contributed $1.1 million to the Independence Party to be used for ballot security.
First, why are holes used for ballots?
The city had been printing the names in a minuscule seven-point font, smaller than the font used for the ballot's instructions.
Lighter paper with a weight of 80g per sq m, rather than 100g, is used for the ballot papers, making them easier to handle, and voters are instructed to fold them only once, from north to south.
Further complicating matters, Section 8 ends with an allowance for the use of ballot-counting machines in the state, but only if "secrecy in voting is preserved".
May I just ask this question: If you did have a situation -- I know your position is different -- where there was some uncounted ballots due to a machine malfunction, for example, would it not make sense to assume that the standard used for damaged ballots would be the same standard you use in that situation?
Before the election, Brown said he might use leftover money for ballot-measure campaigns over the next four years, to "overcome whatever infirmities lame-duck governors might ordinarily suffer from". Times staff writers Michael Finnegan in Los Angeles and Phil Willon in Sacramento contributed to this report.
Professor Rubin favors the use of touch screens only for "ballot marking" — capturing a voter's intended choice — then printing out a paper ballot with only the voter's chosen candidates that the voter can visually check.
She has drafted proposed legislation that would require employees of governmental law offices to use only their official titles for ballot designations.
