Please publicly state if you will accept this challenge, or if you refuse this challenge. Should you refuse to accept this challenge, I believe the political credibility of electronic voting may self-destruct, and the citizens will have to consider what you do in response to this information: (1) intentionally continue to hide vote counting from the people of Riverside County, or (2) restore publicly observable vote counting, forthwith, in the name of upholding democracy, eliminating conflicts of interest, proving your own re-elections as legitimate, and vindicating the voting rights of all Americans, including the 92% who want the right to observe the counting.
This is not an activist issue, this is an American democracy issue.
Very truly yours,
PAUL R LEHTO
Attorney at Law
OPEDNEWS READERS: PLEASE DONATE!! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS IN CALIFORNIA AS A PAID POLITICAL AD AND OTHER AREAS (FUNDS ALLOWING) AND TO DEFRAY THE COSTS OF THIS CAMPAIGN, please write to lehtolawyer@gmail.com for donations information.[1] This study later became attached as an exhibit to a lawsuit designed to void the contract for purchase of the Sequoia machines as illegal for approximately 12 different reasons, each one a claim in the litigation. Washington state attorney Randy Gordon agreed to represent myself and Jack Wells, descendent of a Revolutionary War soldier, pro bono in this suit. See www.votersunite.org/info/lehtolawsuit.asp (complaint link near bottom of page)
[2] Any number of pundits will be able to find plausible political reasons for the result, finding the "winning" campaign to be better at getting out the vote, or a last minute media blitz having turned the tide.
