TITLE
Recommendation to receive and lay-over to April 12, 2005, a report to the Elections Oversight Committee, regarding SB 1730 and the changing of Statewide Primary Election dates beginning in 2006.
DISCUSSION
This report is intended to update the Mayor and City Council regarding the deliberations of the Elections Oversight Committee (EOC). On March 9,2005, the EOC considered a report by the City Clerk Department concerning the impacts of SB 1730 and recommending continued discussions with the
Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder with a two-pronged aim hoping to: 1) create a City-County team to produce a voter-friendly and successful concurrent election in June
2006; 2) seek a pass thru from the County to the City of federal and state funding for purchase of a modern voting system that could be operated in a concurrent election
scenario. A copy of the report considered by the EOC is contained in Exhibit 1. We encourage careful reading of Exhibit 1 I so that the remainder of this report is better
understood. After presentation of the City Clerk's report to the EOC on March 9th, Conny McCormack, Registrar RecorderKounty Clerk for the County of Los Angeles, advised
the EOC that she would be willing to recommend waiver of the County Board of Supervisors' "no consolidation" policy for the City of Long Beach as long as: 1) a concurrent election would remain a "fall back position; 2) if "we knew of your [the City's] run-off candidates ." by April 13, 2006 (also known as "E minus 54", e.g. E-54); and 3) the Board of Supervisors would find good reason to allow consolidation. In balancing considerations as to whether to request consolidation of the June 2006 run-off election, City Council should consider the main implications of the Registrar's offer to recommend consolidation using the Ink-A-Vote system which are highlighted as follows: Creation of E-54 deadline that is not practically feasible: According to the Secretary of State February I I, 2005, report regardi...
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