Hermosa Beach precinct nearly runs out of ballots
Poll workers Jan Miller, Luis Villavicencio, Treva McCarthy and Eric Bails help voters at the Easy Reader office, which has served as a downtown polling place for the past decade. Photo Voter turn-out was so high on Tuesday that at least one Hermosa Beach polling place nearly ran out of ballots. Precinct workers at the Easy Reader newspaper office, which has served as a polling place for the past decade, were issued 550 ballots. When the polls closed Tuesday night, just nine of the ballots remained, according to the precinct’s inspector Eric Bails . Bails said other Hermosa polling places also reported running low on ballots. His precinct’s rolls listed approximately 1,700 registered voters. The district runs west from Manhattan Avenue to the ocean and from 10th Street on the north to Herondo Avenue on the south. Blair estimated the precinct’s turn-out at approximately 55 percent, as compared to just 12 percent during last June’s primary. “Voters were lined up from 7 a.m. when we opened until 11 a.m., and again from 3 p.m. until we closed at 8 p.m. We were never without voters,” Blair said. Had he run out of ballots, he said, voters would have been allowed to vote using the 150…
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