Problems With Changing Course Mid-Stream

There are serious problems with changing the rules in the middle of the process, for example: Frustrated officials say ballots may be tossed

As of Monday, voters had returned about 31,000 absentee ballots in Placer, El Dorado, Sacramento and Yolo counties, officials said, out of 234,107 that had been mailed out.

If the election is postponed, those ballots will be stored for a while, as required by law, and then will be stored for a while, as required by law, and then will be "pulped," Oakley said.

Los Angeles County alone already had 30,000 absentee ballots returned as of Monday afternoon, and an official there said they would await word from Shelley on what to do with them.

Experts said it appears likely that a March election means the ballots will have to be destroyed.

Not to mention the money already spent in preparation for an October vote--what happened to all the pro-Davis forces which were complaining about how much this was all costing?