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Biggest citizen election auditing team tries to authenticate June primary results

By Save R Vote, Riverside County, CA  Posted by Joan Brunwasser (about the submitter)       (Page 3 of 4 pages) Become a premium member to see this article and all articles as one long page.   No comments
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4. A public meeting by August 1, 2006 to include SAVE R VOTE,
representatives of the Board of Supervisors, the Registrar of Voters
and the Election Observer Panel (EOP) to address election integrity
questions, recommendations and implementation of items 1-3 above.

5. Continuation of the Election Observer Panel (EOP) current
membership through the end of 2006 to maintain continuity and
momentum.

CONCLUSION:

"As I tell my citizens in Leon County (FL), 'Don't trust me, require
that I verify to you that the results are accurate'. Demand
accountability all across the political spectrum, because if you do
not require accountability, you are only going to get an oligarchy or
authoritarianism."

"Election officials suffer from one particularly acute disease. I
would call it the arrogance of authority." - Ion Sancho, Elections
Supervisor, Leon County, FL.

Prepared by SAVE R VOTE*
a Project of Democracy For America- Temecula Valley (DFA-TV)

Authors include, in alphabetical order:

Tom Courbat
Jerry Ewig
Maxine Ewig
Paul Jacobs
Rick Palardy

*SAVE R VOTE is an acronym for
Safe And Secure Elections Require Voter Observation of Touchscreen
Equipment

* * * * *

From Black Box Voting -- If your citizen's group plans to try to
authenticate the results of an election, you'll find the full report
helpful:

[]
416.2 K RiversideBowen Cy-RivCo County CA Voting System Operations-
Expensive etc[1].doc
"Riverside Citizen's Report"

Read this too:
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39.4 K SRVpresentationToBOD7-11-06.doc
"Riverside writeup"

If you need to mobilize your local group, start with this:

Citizen visual presentation to describe the problem and mobilize a
group to citizen action:

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/2197/33055.html

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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