080: The Ballots Nobody Audits, the Diapers Nobody Bid On, and $44 Billion in Propositions

California threw out 148,241 mail ballots in the June primary — and the batch that erased Spencer Pratt's 40,000-vote lead in the L.A. mayor's race is exempt from the state's only mandatory audit. Then: fourteen November propositions asking voters for $44.65 billion in new borrowing, and Diapergate — Newsom called the $6.2 million Baby2Baby contract competitive, while the state's own database labels it NON-COMPETITIVELY BID. Plus the Six-Shooter: 500% school board raises, another week of L.A. water mains, and a digital ID the state won't ask for at the ballot box.