. >> reporter: state assemblyman evan lowe says santa clara county tops the list when it comes to the amount of mistakes being made at the register's office across the state and he wants to know why it's happening and how to stop it. >> as a voter, your responsibility is casting your ballot behind the scenes and there's a lot more responsibility and chance for errors to happen. >> we are humans and there will be times things may slip. >> reporter: state assemblyman evan lowe calls the number of mistakes made by the santa clara process disturbing. >> we expect excellence and what we demand and we need faith. >> reporter: he said there have been numerous time they sent out wrong ballots and missing information and absentee ballots sent to people ineligible to vote. >> usually a state audit of this magnitude is rare for such an agency and we want to make sure we focus on the type of scrutiny and accountability and safeguards for the future. >> reporter: the audit committee approved the audit request. saying her office handles nine different languages. every time an error has occurred, it

. >> reporter: state assemblyman evan lowe says santa clara county tops the list when it comes to the amount of mistakes being made at the register's office across the state and he wants to know why it's happening and how to stop it. >> as a voter, your responsibility is casting your ballot behind the scenes and there's a lot more responsibility and chance for errors to happen. >> we are humans and there will be times things may slip. >> reporter: state assemblyman evan lowe calls the number of mistakes made by the santa clara process disturbing. >> we expect excellence and what we demand and we need faith. >> reporter: he said there have been numerous time they sent out wrong ballots and missing information and absentee ballots sent to people ineligible to vote. >> usually a state audit of this magnitude is rare for such an agency and we want to make sure we focus on the type of scrutiny and accountability and safeguards for the future. >> reporter: the audit committee approved the audit request. saying her office handles nine different languages. every time an error has occurred, it

. >>> state assemblyman evan lowe wants 17-year-olds to weigh in on the next president of the united states. the campbell lawmaker has introduced an amendment to the california constitution to allow that. the bill would require approval from two-thirds of the legislature as well as the approval of california voters, so it could be a long haul here. he says lowering the voting age will help give teenagers a political voice. he says he wrote the bill after the low turnout in 2014. >>> meantime voters in sonoma county are deciding the fate of a marijuana tax today. measure a would impose a 10% tax on businesses that grow or sell medicinal or recreational pot in unincorporated areas of the county. supporters say it could generate $15 million in revenue every year. the money would go to county services, including roads, fire protection and housing. >>> just a little over a month to go until the dreaded tax deadline. >> we have experts standing by ready to take your questions. michael finney is here with his annual tax hotline. michael. >> boy, we've been busy today an will be up until 8:0

state assemblyman evan low wants 17-year-olds to weigh in on the next president of the united states.r has introduced an amendment to the constitution to do just that. the bill would require approval from two-thirds of the legislature and approval of california voters so it could be a long haul. lows says loeterri ers loweringe would help give young voters a voice. >> the state of california recognized its women of the year. >> among them a fremont resident that's taken it upon herself to bridge the gap between fear and accept tenance of muslim amaner >> reporter: in a country founded on religious freedom, this happens. a muslim woman walks through a public building while acutely aware of what she describes as the look. >> i don't know what they are thinking, but that's what i feel. that's the feeling i get, that they are scared of me and i'm scared of them at times. >> reporter: this is case where fear can lead to inspiration. ever heard of meet a muslim? >> the purpose is for them to come and ask questions and physically see a muslim, meet a muslim, look inside behind me head scarf.

>> state assemblyman, evan low says it is rare for a registrar's office off to get audited. he says the number of errors are coming out of this office during the election, is troubling. as a voter you tres tust the registrar is doing its part to make sure elections are fair. red flags are being raised. >> we expect transparency and integritiy ein the election process. important that we have faithen electoral system. >> evan low says there have been numerous cases in the county since 2010 when the registrar sent out wrong ballots and with missing information. in another instance, absentee ballots were sent to people ineligible to vote. >> state audit of this magnitude is rare for an agency. we want to make sure we are focused on scrutiny to ensure we have accountability and putting safe guards in place. >> reporter: joint legislative audit committee approved the request. the registrar voter says the people in her office are human. there are times mistakes happen. >> i welcome the audit to come in. it would be great to have an outside organization, come in, look at what we do,

assemblyman evan low of campbell is behind the proposal. >>> another lawmaker is taking aim and looking to limit californians to buying no more than one gun a month. it would close a loophole by including long guns in a monthly buying limit which currently only applies to handguns. the senator also pointed to statistics saying that out of over 26,000 guns used in crimes that were entered into the california department of justice's automated firearms system database in one recent year, over 11,000 were long guns. >>> six members of a family have been charged with murder in the killing of a beloved south bay baseball coach and security guard. the defendants will be back in court on march 21. this comes as prosecutors say frank navarro died in a fight over a face tattoo and a fake id. navarro died sunday as he was working providing security at the tres gringos nightclub in downtown san jose. prosecutors say navarro turned away one of the suspects joseph esquivel because he was using his brother's identification and tried to conceal a facial tattoo with makeup. when navarro wouldn't give hi

assemblyman evan low from campbell requested the probe saying there had been a lot of problems with election since 2010. he particularly is concerned about the ballot counting process. he says it's not uncommon for administrative mistakes to be made but the frequency of these mistakes is of concern. the audit should take about 5 months. >>> to more bay area headlines now. palo alto's city council is supporting a property owner who intends to raze tree homes in order to build one with a basement. council voted to approve the proposal which involves knocking down three homes on california avenue. several neighbors appealed to the council saying too much water would have to be removed from the soil as the basements in those homes were excavated. >>> bay area travelers can now get to copenhagen, denmark, nonstop from oakland starting earlier this week on norwegian air with two outbound and two inbound flights weekly. oakland is the only bay area airport with nonstop service to all three scandinavian capitals. they will begin service to barcelona in june. >>> if you live in the bay area chances a

. >> reporter: assemblyman evan lowe, a democrat based in campbell, asked a committee for an audit ofthe registrar voter's office. wednesday the committee agreed. in a letter to santa clara county board president cited six champs of errors including more than 2,000 ballots mailed to ineligible voters. in 201100,000 sample ballots missing candidate sections. the same year there was missing information in voter pamphlets, and last year some voters got a guide with the wrong information. >> we're here to cooperate and be transparent as we always are with everything we do. >> reporter: santa clara county's registrar has held the position since 20 14. she calls the state awed ate great thing. >> it would be good to have an outside view, an outside eye come in and see if there are any recommendations that they can give us that would help improve. >> reporter: she said her office has been up-front with past errors and immediately notified voters and says she is confident in the accuracy of election results. she says the cause for each error has been different, ranging from vendor issues to i