California holds Lotto-style ballot draw

In a display that looked more like a Las Vegas lottery game, election officials held a drawing to determine where Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger and nearly 200 other candidates seeking to replace California’s governor will appear on the October 7 recall ballot.

Under the spotlight of television cameras carrying the event live yesterday, officials put printed letters into film canisters, then placed the canisters into a gold steel-mesh barrel before pulling the letters out one by one.