CORRECTED REPORT:
Late Tuesday, the Los Angeles Country Registrar-Recorder’s released a new tally for the general election showing the massive condo-Waldorf Astoria project at the Beverly Hilton site had pulled ahead by 16 votes. About 1,000 votes remain to be counted.
The project was losing by seven votes through Friday’s counting of votes from election day but with absentees and provisional votes, the result is Measure is ahead 7,017 to 7,001 or 50.06 percent to 49.94 percent. A recount seems certain.
The latest figures show Los Angeles City Measure A, the so-called Gang Tax, still is short of the needed two-thirds majority 65.38 percent to 34,62 percent.
And Measure R, also still in question, remains ahead with just over the two-thirds needed with 67.23 percent to 32.77 percent.
You’re kidding, right? CAN YOU SAY VOTER FRAUD, CORRUPTION??? Prop H decided by 12 votes?
Hey, a significant amount of money on the side of a proposition allows a bribe to occur, of someone in the LA County Registrar office, to “PUSH” the vote count. Nobody will say it aloud but it’s a fact.
Do you really believe that the propositions were decided by such a small margin? Probability is against this from happening, in a real world. But, we live in a false world, where certain targeted propositions are predetermined before the race is completed. Those races are fixed.
# R: Transit sales tax Yes 67.2% No 32.8%
(2/3 vote needed to pass.) Precincts reporting: 100.0%
# Q: L.A. Unified bond Yes 68.3% No 31.7%
(55% needed to pass.) Precincts reporting: 100.0%
Yes, some people really believe that L.A. County residents really do want to overtax themselves in the midst of this recession. Yet other people, those with a brain in their head, know that the fix was on. Hello, the BH
We really need a CITIZEN ADVOCATE in the LA County Registrar’s Office to expose the corruption that currently exists.
Forgot to add… The DWP tells us that the municipal water is safe to drink yet many L.A. City agencies have bottled water in their coffee rooms. Who are you going to believe? The DWP or your “own eyes”.
Probability is against this from happening, in a real world.
Actually, you’re wrong. Probability theory indicates that in a two-candidate (or two-choice) election, the likelihood of a 50-50 split is much higher than a lopsided split, with probability decreasing every point you move one side away from 50 and closer to 100.
Hey, a significant amount of money on the side of a proposition allows a bribe to occur, of someone in the LA County Registrar office, to “PUSH” the vote count. Nobody will say it aloud but it’s a fact.
That may be the view from under your tin-foil hat, but there is no empirical evidence that demonstrates it’s a ‘fact.’
But, we live in a false world, where certain targeted propositions are predetermined before the race is completed. Those races are fixed.
The outcome of races may be “predetermined” by a number of factors, most notably which side spends more money to pitch its case to voters. It’s fair game to call that “corrupt,” as many have, and to seek campaign finance reform that levels the playing field.
But fantasizing that someone in the registrar’s office is taking a bribe to “fix” vote tallies is paranoid and delusional.
The simple fact is, people lose close elections for two essential reasons — they got outworked and / or outspent.
As for LACity, we have to help ourselves, we have to get involved, there is no white knight to save us from the gang in City Hall. What are you going to do about the March 3 election, sit it out? If that is your thought, you will have no right to complain, will you? You don’t care what I think? I know that. But no excuses, consider yourself warned. We will get no bailouts. It will be business as usual from the mayor and the city council and the DWP. Please reconsider and get involved in your own neighborhoods and work together. Yes, we can help ourselves if we try.
@ 8:22 AM: Actually, I’m “not wrong”. You said Probability theory , not I. I used the term probability as in a “greater likelihood”, and not “probability theory” as in statistical probability, as you imagined.
You are the delusional one. To perceive fairness when it doesn’t exist at our voting booth is just misguided. You don’t know the facts. Or else, tow the party line, if you wish. But, don’t get shaken up when confronted with reality.
@ 9:01: Oh, sorry. My bad… I thought when you said “probability” you meant “probability,” and that when you said “facts” you meant, well, actual “facts.” None of which you’ve presented here.
No doubt the conspiracy theory gets good play at the end of a long day, when you and your homies have put down your torches and pitchforks and are grabbing a beer while reminiscing about the good old days when Art Bell still was on the air.
Maybe I’m obtuse, but i think the theory is loony…
@8:38:
What are you going to do about the March 3 election, sit it out? If that is your thought, you will have no right to complain, will you?
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Please reconsider and get involved in your own neighborhoods and work together.
Ah yes, you must be one of those Neighborhood Council morons, passing resolutions about dissatisfactions. Why don’t you people introduce a “FILE” at L.A. City Council. HAS IT EVER BEEN DONE YET??? No, it won’t happen from such a bunch of phonies.
READ MY RESPONSE. The last sentence says, “We really need a CITIZEN ADVOCATE in the LA County Registrar’s Office to expose the corruption that currently exists.”
“Tow the line”
I do not think this means what you think it means….
The correct idiom is “toe the line”
@9:22: and that when you said “facts” you meant, well, actual “facts.” None of which you’ve presented here.
Do you really believe that anyone is going to present/teach you the facts of life, here?
Maybe I’m obtuse, but i think the theory is loony…
I wouldn’t use the word “maybe”. ‘Nuf said.
@Pedant: The correct idiom is “toe the line”
No. From a nautical standpoint, “tow the line”, represents exactly what I intend. ‘Nuf said.
From a nautical standpoint “tow the line”, represents exactly what I intend.
Of course it does, honey. Down there in Nutwood Holler, everything you say is right.
But over here in Facts Town, the correct idiom is “toe the line” — EVEN FROM A NAUTICAL STANDPOINT.
Note the following from the U. S. Naval Historical Center’s Reference on Nautical Terms and Phrases: Their Meaning and Origin”
The space between each pair of deck planks in a wooden ship was filled with a packing material called “oakum” and then sealed with a mixture of pitch and tar. The result, from afar, was a series of parallel lines a half-foot or so apart, running the length of the deck. Once a week, as a rule, usually on Sunday, a warship’s crew was ordered to fall in at quarters — that is, each group of men into which the crew was divided would line up in formation in a given area of the deck. To insure a neat alignment of each row, the Sailors were directed to stand with their toes just touching a particular seam. Another use for these seams was punitive. The youngsters in a ship, be they ship’s boys or student officers, might be required to stand with their toes just touching a designated seam for a length of time as punishment for some minor infraction of discipline, such as talking or fidgeting at the wrong time. A tough captain might require the miscreant to stand there, not talking to anyone, in fair weather or foul, for hours at a time. Hopefully, he would learn it was easier and more pleasant to conduct himself in the required manner rather than suffer the punishment. From these two uses of deck seams comes our cautionary word to obstreperous youngsters to “toe the line.”
Here’s a link to the reference: http://www.history.navy.mil/trivia/trivia03.htm
I apologize for interrupting the conversation here, but what does: “introduce a “FILE” at L.A. City Council” mean? I’m still in the learning process.
Thank you.