Letters to the Editor 11-17-22
Election engineering Dear ER: Although I agreed with the results of the Redondo Beach special election on October 19,, it left a bad taste in my mouth. Not just because our city spent over $100,000 to have a separate election from the midterms, which I consider to be a waste of taxpayer money, but also because I feel the low turnout is an indirect disenfranchising of voters. We already know fewer voters show up for our elections in March as opposed to November. Mayor Bill Brand and his supporters have built an active grassroots movement in our city, and good for them. They should feel confident in bringing their views on the issues to as many voters as possible, but this is not what happened. They have voted against aligning our elections with the November elections, as many other cities have done, in coordination with well-intentioned SB 415, and now have paid to move an election about cannabis. When a city has a turnout of 15,000 for a special election, as opposed to 40,000 two weeks later for the general election, the process is flawed. The Equal Protection Clause of our Constitution refers mostly to apportionment, but there may come a day a case will be made that equal…
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