This year Venetians have a choice of where to vote and what day. One can vote 22 February to 2 March from 8 am to 5 pm and 3 March from 7 am to 8 pm.
A couple issues ago a story was written regarding how to find out where to vote because Anne Mullins had mentioned the dilemma with the Extra Storage Space not being available after fire.
An area of Venice was scheduled to use Extra Storage Space for voting. The fire changed all. Anne Mullins just emailed that she received a postcard stating she would go to Westminster Elementary School, 1010 Abbot Kinney, to vote.
Doug Fay announced his run for County Supervisor in the Update. Update checked the maps to see the district he would represent. It appears, Venice is a tad untapped regarding defining districts when it comes to the County. Maps are shown.
It was explained to the staff at second and third districts that this was not acceptable. But if one puts in his address, the proper district will pop up. How does one campaign in such a district? How does one vote in such a district? Voting in a Democracy is important to say the least; to have to discover what district one lives in is not the best. Venice, Marina del Rey are next to the Ocean, the great resource that most supervisors are involved with.
Doug Fay was queried regarding such dilemma. He promised to do what he could to get a map legible for the voting residents of Venice.
Use to be one could buy a pair of shoes in an area he was visiting and that qualified him with a receipt to vote in the election of the area being visited. It was dubbed the “Starbucks Stakeholder.” Just show a receipt and you were vested.
Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to change that Cavalier approach to Democracy. Now one must either work, live, own property or show membership in a community organization within the neighborhood council boundaries.
According to LA Times, Councilman Jose Huizar said “We are putting an end to the Starbucks stakeholder.”
Voters west of Thatcher were not allowed to walk across the street to vote on Oxford. No—they had to drive to Marina Point Drive to Mirabella apartments, club house, red table to vote. Hopefully, residents will work on this one so it never happens again.
Now Mirabella apartment residents have easy access, using a key for the emergency fire gate on Princeton, to get to Thatcher to walk their dogs, park their cars, etc. but residents of the Triangle have no such access to their facilities.