50,000 ballots left to be counted

Some 50,000 votes cast by nonpartisan voters in Los Angeles County for president on Super Tuesday cannot be accurately tallied because of a confusing ballot design known as the "double bubble," officials said Monday.
Troy Anderson in the Daily News.
In a 21-page report issued Monday evening, acting Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan said a 1percent manual recount of 189,438 ballots estimated that 26percent may have been cast incorrectly and could not be tallied for Democratic and American Independent candidates for president.

"We are unable to clearly determine what the voter intent was on those ballots without the party selection or without knowing which voter booth they were in," Logan said. "It does not appear we are going to be able to go back and add those votes into the tally."