Reply #2: Our new SoS is doing 10% when margin is 0.5% or less, and [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

escalated auditing when the standard 1% turns up anomalous results. She's also requiring VVPAT for all touchscreens (now in limited use in CA).

But the pisser is that San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties--all deep into the rightwing corporate vendors' pockets--SUED SoS Bowen to stop these reforms. They lost, but it's a good indicator of their BAD ATTITUDE, which affects election integrity in many other ways. San Diego took the lead in the legal assault on these minimal reforms. SD registrar is Deborah Seiler, who used to be chief Diebold salesperson in Calif. (SD has a Diebold system.) And that is so unbelievably corrupt you gotta wonder if the deep, dark Republican establishment in SD feels any responsibility at all to the people of the county.

CA has too many of these corrupt kind of county registrars, who owe their allegiance to the corporate vendors, not to the voters--and this very much influenced my assessment of CA's election integrity. What if they drive this reformer SoS out of office, the way they did Kevin Shelley (after he sued Diebold for fraud in '04)? What if they sabotage her reforms? What if they mess up the Feb 5 election to get her out? They're perfectly capable of it.

And their little legal tizzy with taxpayers' money was over an up-to-10% audit, in special circumstances, which is not nearly enough.