Any candidate that Rick Roberts and Roger Hedgecock endorse I'm against, too! :)

I'd vote for ya! Just make sure everyone fills in that little circle...

What cushy job do I get once you win?

How about the Queen Mum? All the respect, admiration and reverence with none of the responsibility!

You're displacing Spanish? ;)

Do I get a hat, too?

Very catchy!

Lavendar $3 bills, yes?

We of course have to have lots of LARGE denominations, right? :D

I suppose with enough of them we'll have a rainbow, yes?

There are still two other lawsuits pending; One in Federal Court and one in California Superior Court.

The vote won't be certified until November 30 (if then...) and the new mayor (if it changes hands) is supposed to take office on Dec. 9th. If the vote still hasn't been certified by that time because of pending litigation, Murphy will remain in office until it is.

I can't say much else because I'm going to be doing some presentation graphics for one of the attorneys involved in one of the lawsuits. I can't say for who or for which lawsuit until its all over.

Oh, deifnitely an impact - for the better. This whole problem arose because SanDog's election law regarding write-ins for the General (ie: runoff) election proved to be ambiguous, at best, when compared to the State Municipal code, and also when using what little precedent existed as a guideline.

It's the same problem Florida had in 2000. It's the problem that Ohio DID NOT have this year because they had solid election laws and had already been using provisional ballots for 10 years.

The next mayor (or Murphy during his next term as mayor) will have to hammer out new election laws with the City Council to prevent this from happening again.

The only reason this hasn't been a problem in the past is because the most votes any previous write-in candidate in San Deigo's general election has received is 120 votes. No one's ever thought it was a problem that needed fixing until now.