Voting machines appear to omit council candidate – Palo Alto Daily Post

Palo Alto residents voting in person at the polls today might not have noticed, but the name of city council candidate Doria Summa was omitted from the screen showing the other eight council candidates.

To find Summa’s name, a voter must press the word MORE and go to a second page that displays her name.

“This is a very unfortunate situation and it disadvantages one candidate compared to the others,” Mayor Greer Stone said in an email blast. “If you know anyone voting today, please let them know about this issue ASAP.”

“Unfortunately, there was only room for eight candidates on the screen and I got relegated to the second screen,” Summa said in an email.

No word yet from the Registrar of Voters about this mix up.