88 Percent Turnout Expected in California Election
Voter turnout around 88 percent on Tuesday will bring over 7.5 million Californians to the polls between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. voting for president U.S. senator 38 congressmen 20 state senators 80 assembly members and other offices and measures. Los Angeles County may cast 2.75 million votes about 36.4 percent of the state total with almost half the state vote in LA Orange and San Diego counties. The county's second punchcard ballot experience includes more card readers from 11 to 20 and revised devices to prevent jams. Votes will go from precincts to a check-in center then to two tally centers bypassing the primary’s intermediate collection point. Four parties qualified slates of 40 electors for presidents include American Independent Peace and Freedom Democratic and Republican with Wallace Griffin LeMay and Nixon Agnew among them. A number of write-in candidates are also listed for the presidential tally.
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Los Angeles County
IBM
American Independent
George Wallace
Marvin Griffin
Peace and Freedom
Peggy Terry
Democratic
Hubert H. Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
Republican
Richard M. Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
Griffin
Wallace
Curtis E. LeMay
Sen
U.S
Senate
Max Rafferty
Alan Cranston
Paul Jacobs
Peace and Freedom Party
Long Beach Area
GOP
Craig Hosmer
Arthur J. Gottlieb
Long Beach
Lakewood
Orange County
Huntington Beach
Seal Beach
Rossmoor
Richard T. Hanna
Bill Teague
Joseph M. Kennick
Watts
Kennick
Ed Brockman
George Deukmejian
East Long Beach
Whittier
James A. Hayes
Signal Hill
Virginia
Southern California
Ray Lee
C.D
S.D
Assembly District
A.D
Cranston says Rafferty radio pressure shabby tricks
Cranston assails Rafferty for pressuring California radio and TV to air a commercial linking Cranston to Eldridge Cleaver. Rafferty denounces media timidity, claims First Amendment violations, and vows to press FCC action. Cranston campaigns in San Francisco and Los Angeles urging a decisive victory to end Rafferty’s bid.
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Cranston
Rafferty
GOP
FCC
Eldridge -Cleaver
California
Disneyland People Mover ride collision injures 25
Twenty five persons suffered minor injuries in rear end collisions on Disneyland’s People Mover Sunday evening. Three of 14 hospitalized were admitted for observation. No cars overturned. Cause under investigation.
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Disneyland
People Mover
Rideland
PeopleMover
Palm Harbor Hospital
Amusement Center
Tomorrowland
New Computer On Job Delays Election Returns
The Independent Press Telegram notes late returns Tuesday as computers tally votes at a central Southern California HQ rather than precincts. Officials expect more complete results despite delays, though League of Women Voters helpers have been replaced by machines.
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Independent, Press-Telegram
California
League of Women Voters
Rafferty Calls California Polls Biased Against GOP
In a taped interview, educator politician Max Rafferty claims California polls understate Republican support. He alleges two principal pollsters are liberal Democrats, without naming them, referencing polls that showed him trailing Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel and now Alan Cranston.
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Los Angeles
Max Rafferty
GOP
U.S. Senate
California
Don Muchmore
Rafferty
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Thomas H. Kuchel
Alan Cranston
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Bob Houser
Eldridge Cleaver
Federal Communications Commission
San Francisco
University of California
Cleaver
St. Francis Square
Thomas Kuchel
Golden
Kuchel
San Diego
Sacramento
Ambassador Hotel
Eugene J. McCarthy
Snoopy
Pat. Paulsen
Assembly
Max
Marina
Santa Ana
Pomona
Newport Center
Palos Verdes
LA Habra
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