Three Long Beach City Council members want to make Long Beach's ballots fairer for candidates.
Council members James Johnson, Dee Andrews and Steve Neal are asking the council Tuesday to implement ballot rotation on local election ballots.
The change would rotate the order of candidates on ballots so that each candidate is listed first on an equal number of ballots throughout the city. In his proposal, Johnson points to a study that found that California candidates are 5.6 percent more likely to win an election if they are listed first on the ballot.
The cost of using ballot rotation would be about $10,000 per election, depending on the number of candidates, according to City Clerk Larry Herrera. Long Beach's next regular city election is scheduled for April 2012.
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