Miss California Wrongly Crowns Winner, Strips Title

An accounting mix-up led to the wrong woman being crowned Miss California USA, and she's relinquished her crown to the rightful winner, organizers said Monday.

Christina Silva, 24, was declared the winner of the annual state beauty pageant, but she gave up the title to Raquel Beezley, who was originally named the second runner-up. Beezely, 21, will represent the state at the Miss USA pageant next April.

The pageant's state director, Keith Lewis, said several judges questioned the results of the Nov. 25 competition at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. Lewis said the error was discovered the next day after the ballots were opened and recounted.

"It was a simple human error," Lewis said.

Keep reading
(the picture here is new Miss California Raquel Beezley)

Comments

[Harrier]

An accounting mix up. Funny. It's not that anyone knew how to add and they all made the same mistake. Rocket science, what a difficult career.

[GhostTurdOf America]

A crown! Oh joy! Why are these pageants still around?

[GeoNorth]

Mistakes can always happen. That why we have instant replay in football and Baseball is think of the same thing.

It just seems ironic that it's in the scoring of a beauty pageant, it was a math problem that messed them up.

[sparkey]

Saw the runner-up. She definitely doesn't messure up in looks or body. The judges are blind or just stupid.

[Libsrule]

That's gotta hurt no matter what you think of beauty pagents. You think you've won and a few days later...

WHOOPS. Sorry bout that, but you lost.

Think about it, two or three days of pure rush only to have it sandbagged? That's gotta hurt.

[NewRiver]

That's too bad.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Twin peaks is not just a neighborhood in SF.

[kellygrrrl]

hmmm, and we didn't think to reopen and recount the ballots of the Presidential election?