Orange County Elections 1993

City voters left homeless by last week's devastating fire can cast their ballots in today's election at previously designated polling places or at the Orange County Registrar of Voters' office in Santa Ana. Those temporarily living outside the area can go to the registrar's office at 1300 S. Grand Ave. in Santa Ana to file an absentee ballot. For voters who plan to use their normal polling place, no identification will be required.

The results of last week's Santa Margarita and Los Alisos water district elections have changed after a recount of the votes, the county registrar of voters said Wednesday. The recounts were ordered and completed Tuesday after errors were discovered in both Nov. 2 elections, Registrar Donald Tanney said. "It's never fun to admit errors, but the errors did occur," Tanney said. "But it was better to discover them now than to have the wrong person seated in the position and have us find out later.

In what appeared to be a message of discontent with the leadership in their school districts, incumbents were losing to challengers in three of four school board races in the Orange and Santa Ana Unified school districts, according to early election returns Tuesday night.

State Propositions How California Voted Returns in the "How California Voted" columns represent vote totals from the entire state. 100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%) 168--Low Rent Housing Projects. Legislative Constitutional Amendment. Yes: 1,822,243 (40%) No: 2,705,366 (60%) 169--Budget Implementation. Legislative Constitutional Amendment. Yes: 1,692,725 (39%) No: 2,682,170 (61%) 170--Property Taxes. Schools. Majority Vote. Development-Fee Limits. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.

Ray Bradley comes out of north Florida, but he sounds more like Georgia. Sixty-two years old and with a Big Daddy drawl that to a Yankee's ear turns every sentence into a quiz, ol' Willie Ray can tell you stories till the cows come home. Like how his daddy had the still down by the creek on their truck farm in Okaloosa County, and how the local law enforcement people in the then-dry county would buy the stuff. In exchange, they'd tell Ray's daddy when the revenuers were coming.

Orange County voters turned out in small numbers Tuesday, rejecting a special tax in Newport Beach to buy undeveloped acreage, seating a newcomer on the Irvine City Council, and sifting through a host of candidates for school and water district posts. On the most closely watched state propositions, Orange County voters rejected the school voucher and were split almost evenly on the state sales tax extension. Orange County Registrar Donald Tanney said overall turnout stood at about 28%.

What a difference a decade makes. Back in the early '80s, Rob Hurtt was a typical Orange County industrialist, nose to the business grindstone. Then he got the bug--a bug of the political variety. It began by contributing to candidates--a few hundred dollars here, a few hundred there. In 1987, Hurtt helped found an institute in Sacramento to lobby for the family values he holds dear.

A candidate seeking one of four seats on the Orange Unified School District board filed a complaint this week with the Orange County district attorney's office accusing an opponent of submitting a false address to qualify for the election. Mara Brandman, a community activist and candidate for the Area 5 board seat, claimed that Max Reissmueller lives in a Tustin apartment complex, outside Area 5 boundaries.

In early returns Tuesday, California voters were supporting a statewide ballot measure that would make permanent a half-cent sales tax, with the revenue going to finance local government public safety programs. With about a seventh of the vote counted in the special statewide election, Proposition 172 held a narrow lead of about 5 to 4.

An initiative that would have brought radical change to California's schools was defeated by a large margin Tuesday, as voters weighed in against a plan to let parents use tax-funded vouchers to pay their children's tuition at private schools. With a broad coalition of political, union and business interests allied against it, Proposition 174, the Education Vouchers Initiative, lost by a margin of more than 2 to 1.

In what appeared to be a message of discontent with the leadership in their school districts, incumbents were losing to challengers in three of four school board races in the Orange and Santa Ana Unified school districts, according to early election returns Tuesday night.

Orange County voters turned out in small numbers Tuesday, rejecting a special tax in Newport Beach to buy undeveloped acreage, seating a newcomer on the Irvine City Council, and sifting through a host of candidates for school and water district posts. On the most closely watched state propositions, Orange County voters rejected the school voucher and were split almost evenly on the state sales tax extension. Orange County Registrar Donald Tanney said overall turnout stood at about 28%.

In early returns Tuesday, California voters were supporting a statewide ballot measure that would make permanent a half-cent sales tax, with the revenue going to finance local government public safety programs. With about a seventh of the vote counted in the special statewide election, Proposition 172 held a narrow lead of about 5 to 4.

An initiative that would have brought radical change to California's schools was defeated by a large margin Tuesday, as voters weighed in against a plan to let parents use tax-funded vouchers to pay their children's tuition at private schools. With a broad coalition of political, union and business interests allied against it, Proposition 174, the Education Vouchers Initiative, lost by a margin of more than 2 to 1.

Returns for elections in the Santa Margarita Water District and the Los Alisos Water District were incomplete Tuesday night because both districts fall under an antiquated voting system in which ballots must be counted by hand. But partial results in the Los Alisos district, which serves a population of 40,000 in the Lake Forest area, showed challengers Rod Jewell and Preston Bishop ahead of incumbent Harry C. Johnson in a race for two seats.

City voters left homeless by last week's devastating fire can cast their ballots in today's election at previously designated polling places or at the Orange County Registrar of Voters' office in Santa Ana. Those temporarily living outside the area can go to the registrar's office at 1300 S. Grand Ave. in Santa Ana to file an absentee ballot. For voters who plan to use their normal polling place, no identification will be required.

The results of last week's Santa Margarita and Los Alisos water district elections have changed after a recount of the votes, the county registrar of voters said Wednesday. The recounts were ordered and completed Tuesday after errors were discovered in both Nov. 2 elections, Registrar Donald Tanney said. "It's never fun to admit errors, but the errors did occur," Tanney said. "But it was better to discover them now than to have the wrong person seated in the position and have us find out later.

Returns for elections in the Santa Margarita Water District and the Los Alisos Water District were incomplete Tuesday night because both districts fall under an antiquated voting system in which ballots must be counted by hand. But partial results in the Los Alisos district, which serves a population of 40,000 in the Lake Forest area, showed challengers Rod Jewell and Preston Bishop ahead of incumbent Harry C. Johnson in a race for two seats.

A candidate seeking one of four seats on the Orange Unified School District board filed a complaint this week with the Orange County district attorney's office accusing an opponent of submitting a false address to qualify for the election. Mara Brandman, a community activist and candidate for the Area 5 board seat, claimed that Max Reissmueller lives in a Tustin apartment complex, outside Area 5 boundaries.

Ray Bradley comes out of north Florida, but he sounds more like Georgia. Sixty-two years old and with a Big Daddy drawl that to a Yankee's ear turns every sentence into a quiz, ol' Willie Ray can tell you stories till the cows come home. Like how his daddy had the still down by the creek on their truck farm in Okaloosa County, and how the local law enforcement people in the then-dry county would buy the stuff. In exchange, they'd tell Ray's daddy when the revenuers were coming.