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Berkeley - Alameda County officials began recounting ballots Monday in a Berkeley ballot measure to ease restrictions on medical marijuana sales and possession.
Measure R, which would have allowed medical marijuana clubs to move into retail areas without public hearings and also would erase limits on the amount of pot patients could have, narrowly lost, 25,167 votes to 24,976, according to certified results.
The Alliance for Berkeley Patients sought a recount and committed to paying the more than $20,000 it is expected to cost.
An attorney for the group, Gregory Luke, says he wants access to data from individual electronic voting machines because it is most likely to be uncorrupted.
Registrar Brad Clark will make a decision on that later this week.
Assistant Registrar of Voters Elaine Ginnold said her office planned to manually count all paper absentee and provisional ballots and recount electronic votes stored on memory cards.
It is expected to take two weeks.
By Patrick Hoge
San Francisco Chronicle
BERKELEY / Medical cannabis recount under way
Measure R, which would have allowed medical marijuana clubs to move into retail areas without public hearings and also would erase limits on the amount of pot patients could have, narrowly lost, 25,167 votes to 24,976, according to certified results.
The Alliance for Berkeley Patients sought a recount and committed to paying the more than $20,000 it is expected to cost.
An attorney for the group, Gregory Luke, says he wants access to data from individual electronic voting machines because it is most likely to be uncorrupted.
Registrar Brad Clark will make a decision on that later this week.
Assistant Registrar of Voters Elaine Ginnold said her office planned to manually count all paper absentee and provisional ballots and recount electronic votes stored on memory cards.
It is expected to take two weeks.
By Patrick Hoge
San Francisco Chronicle
BERKELEY / Medical cannabis recount under way
