Courage Campaign Success Stories
47,153 "Double Bubble" ballots counted following campaign to turnout 1.1 million DTS voters
The Courage Campaign waged a massive multimedia campaign to target 1.1 million independent “Decline-to-State” voters in California’s Democratic Party primary on Super Tuesday and then won an unprecedented voting rights victory after tens of thousands of Los Angeles County voters were disenfranchised by a flawed “double bubble” ballot.
As the Los Angeles Times highlighted in a front-page article on the “double bubble” debacle”, the Courage Campaign legal team uncovered the ballot flaw and then leveraged 32,802 petition signatures, grassroots and netroots pressure, and the threat of a lawsuit to force the Registrar to count 47,153 ballots previously discarded.
As a result of the controversy, the L.A. County Registrar replaced the double-bubble ballot with a new ballot for DTS voters and the California Secretary of State revised ballot documents to clarify instructions for DTS voters statewide.