/ Gov. Gavin Newsom will not be listed as a Democrat on the ballot when California voters decide whether to recall him. Newsom missed the deadline by more than a year to state his party preference on the ballot. His elections lawyer noticed the mistake last month and asked the Secretary of State Shirley Weber to allow a fix, but she declined. The governor took the issue to court; his team argued it was an honest mistake and that voters would be served by having more information available on the ballot. But Sacramento Superior Court Judge James Arguelles wasn’t convinced.