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Poorly designed touchscreen may have altered Oakland's at-large election results, candidate says

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By Steven Tavares
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OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL - AT-LARGE —Oakland City Council at-large candidate Kanitha Matoury believes some of her supporters struggled to locate her name on county-issued touchscreen voting machines. —Oakland’s at-large council race featured 10 candidates, but touchscreens used in Alameda County only showed the first eight candidates.
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'I share your dismay'

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By Steven Tavares
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—LIGHTING A FIRE—When the Alameda County Registrar of Voters office took a break the day after Election Night, it caused some grumblings. Indeed, processing the early tranche of votes on Election Night is stressful.
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Police body-cam video shows Alameda councilmember drunk and disoriented

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By Steven Tavares
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—DAMAGING VIDEO—Alameda Councilmember Trish Herrera Spencer was intoxicated and struggled to answer questions posed by Long Beach Police in the early morning hours of Oct. 18, according to body-cam video of the incident. —Video of the incident was posted on Reddit by an Alameda resident on Wednesday afternoon. —Spencer is facing re-election to the Alameda City Council next week. —The shocking images of Spencer lying prone, disoriented in front of a bar in Long Beach are devastating.
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