Michelle Dykstra hasn’t lived in her La Jolla home that long. When she signed a petition seeking to make La Jolla its own city, she wrote her street, Loreta Street, incorrectly. She wrote “Loretta.”

She’s slightly embarrassed about that. She got a call a few weeks later saying that the County Registrar of Voters invalidated her signature in its review of the petition. The Local Agency Formation Commission, or LAFCO, contracts with the Registrar of Voters to do that kind of work, as do most cities.

“I couldn’t understand. I’m a registered voter. I live in La Jolla. I pride myself in doing everything I can to always vote. I have my guide out now for the proposition. I made a silly mistake but I don’t understand why it didn’t count,” she said.

LAFCO, though, did something cities have been

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