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Recommendation to adopt resolution requesting specified services from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's office for the June 7, 2016 City of Long Beach General Municipal Election in an estimated amount of $878,000; and
Request City Attorney to prepare an urgency ordinance amending and temporarily superseding A) Long Beach Municipal Code Section 1.21.010 relating to canvass of returns and B) Long Beach Municipal Code Section 1.21.050 relating to candidates' statements for the June 7, 2016 general municipal election only. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Article XIX Section 1901 of the Long Beach City Charter requires the City of Long Beach to hold its municipal elections for elective officers of the City in even numbered years, on the second Tuesday in April and the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June, respectively. California State Elections Code Section 1001 requires the California Statewide elections be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June. As a result, the timing of the City's General Municipal Election must occur on the same day as the California Statewide Primary election. In addition, the City of Long Beach has been unable to consolidate the City's General Municipal Election with the California Statewide due to the close proximity between our Primary Election in April and the June Statewide election, which are only 56 days apart.
To account for these issues, the City of Long Beach has had no option but to conduct concurrent elections, colloquially known as "Two Vote Tuesday." Conducting concurrent elections requires elections officials to duplicate efforts such that each election official administers their own election while only potentially sharing the same polling location. While this effort is duplicative, it has been up to this point the only and best solution to addressing this challenge.
The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's office has indicated that they would agree to conduct ...
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