35% of SF Adults Voted in SF Mayor's Race

As of 9:30 p.m., 12/9/03, 226,000 people voted in San Francisco's mayoral race, out of 640,000 adults in San Francisco, a city of 764,000 people, 16% of whom are children. This is what Americans brag to the world as being American democracy, better known to others as American hypocrisy.

Only 16% of San Franciscans are immigrants, and many immigrants are citizens.

For these non-partisan offices:
(a) Mayor
As of the same date and time, the results are:
52.57 %, 118,651 votes for Gavin Newsom (Willie Brown's whore and a Democrat)
47.43%, 107,030 votes for Matt Gonzalez (Green Party)

(b) District Attorney's race (both are Democrats and Hallinan received the endorsement of the Democratic Party, not to mention having a legendary family name in this town):
56.33%, 122,193 votes for Kamala Harris (Willie Brown's whore)
43.67%, 94,715 votes for Terence Hallinan.

The "ballots cast" figure will increase somewhat in the next couple days when the provisional ballots and absentee ballot turned in on election day are counted, but the percentage will not change much.

There was more than enough publicity about the mayor's race for those who cared to pay any attention at all.

As to the rain and the election being on a weekday, I remind everyone that this is a City that has suffered through 5 football parades, and people somehow thought nothing of taking time off from work to watch a football parade, but somehow cannot find time to vote, and somehow claim to be bothered by a little rain when it comes to voting, but not when it comes to Christmas shopping.

Every voter receives a ballot handbook about 3 weeks before election day containing, among other things:
(1) A back page that has:
(a) Polling place address next to your address
(b) Application to vote absentee. In California, anyone can vote absentee (or vote by mail) and you need only check a box to be a permanent absentee voter. Once you are a permanent absentee voter, the ballot is mailed to you in every election so you can vote in the privacy and comfort of your home on your own time and mail it right away. This eliminates all election day voting problems and is strongly advised by every experienced election person as the way to vote. This writer has never voted at a polling place. The absentee ballot usually arrives 2 to 3 weeks before election day.

(2) On page 5 of the 12/9/03 voter handbook, you will find "Your Rights as A Voter" in English (and is repeated in Spanish and Chinese) telling you, among other things, that you can vote at City Hall for 2 weeks before election day for this runoff (and in a regular election, it is 4 weeks before election day), by completing an absentee ballot at City Hall. You can also vote at City Hall the weekend before election day. Sunday, 12/7/03, was a beautiful sunny day to vote and a day off from work for most people. There really is no reason to wait until election day, a work day for most people and in the winter, probably a rainy day, to vote. There is lots of other useful information on this page as well.

(3) The voter handbook always has information on the candidates and when there are ballot propositions, information on those propositions.

The voter handbook is meant to be read and considering we all pay for this handbook, for that reason alone, much less the information, we should all read it.

Matt Gonzalez did extremely well and we can all be proud of his campaign, on which 5,000 people worked, including this writer. Only 209,000 people voted for anything in the November election, so Gonzalez increased voter turnout, a difficult thing to do in a runoff. However, no candidate can overcome this contempt for our right to vote, for which so many have died, in one election. There was a clear difference between the candidates, and Gonzalez was not a Democrat, so there was not that problem of having to choose between Democrats, which this writer will not do.

ELECTION FRAUD PADDING:
One thing is very clear, there are never 466,127 voters in any San Francisco election, although that is the number of alleged registered voters. The recall election had a "high" voter turnout of 269,000, so clearly there are 197,000 names that are of dead or moved voters that are being kept on the rolls for election fraud purposes. These names need to be purged.

WORKINGCLASS HOUSING NEEDED
Housing for the workingclass remains a primary issue and we need to raise hell to get it from Newsom. To keep up with the housing crisis in San Francisco and what you can do about it, see the website of the excellent hellraising group, the San Francisco Tenants Union, http://www.sftu.org