These counties, like San Diego and Los Angeles, have Registrars who are tight with the corporate vendors--San Diego's Registrar, Deborah Seiler was Diebold's chief salesperson in California, before she took up her "public service" in San Diego!--and tight with each other. San Diego/Seiler filed suit against SoS Bowen, to
stop modest reforms of the ballot auditing, and Riverside and San Bernardino joined them! Anything for non-transparency. Anything to do the bidding of Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia!
They lost. But still. Bad attitude. Time for the hook for this crew.
You will find them all quoted or cited in the Contra Costa Times article, which predicts slow returns for Feb 5 and blames them on SoS Bowen's reforms. Seiler laments having to protect paper ballots from the rain. It's such a drag.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_8157074?source=rssAlso in this article, the infamous Steve Weir, head of the state county election officials' lobbying group, and Registrar of Contra Costa County. Here's what he said, of SoS Bowen, in August 07: “This election, if it's a failure, it's on her."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070812-9999-1n12bowen.html McCormack retired in Dec 07, after over a decade of secretizing and corporatizing Los Angeles elections, but even she chimes in, in this Whittier Daily News article, six days ago, criticizing SoS Bowen's reforms:
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/ci_8153626?source=rss It's a gang called "The Non-Transparents." And they need to all go the way of McCormack. Out. The. Door.
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Good source on the corruption in Riverside's election system--and a kickass election integrity group in that county: SaveRVote.
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/SaveRVote