Calif Fight against McCormack- Good Work

[JunkYardDogg]

from :
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x336599

CALIFORNIA ELECTION PROTECTION ACTIVISTS

CONGRATULATIONS

The first stage in our fight against Conny McCormack’s Plans to circumvent and dismantle California’s Stringent Election Protection Laws and Standards Mandating Electronic Voting Machines with AVVPAT systems as of Jan. 1, 2006 is so far a successful endeavor.
Although the scheduled Mar. 17 th Secretary of State (SoS) VSPP meeting, with the “Grandfather” Clause on the agenda, has been postponed, our campaign has achieved a number of very important preliminary goals.
First off, the people in the SoS VSPP office are now aware that there are a number of informed, knowledgeable, and concerned California citizens who are aware of what the VSPP does. The VSPP people are responsible for working on the crafting of the various Election Protection laws and standards of which we are fighting to preserve and protect. Before our campaign, they had very little feedback from the public about their work and about their own resistance to McCormack’s agenda. Now they are aware of the fact that there are many people who are supportive and vocal about the VSPP’s work. Many letter writers to the VSPP have received a short written response from the VSPP explaining the meeting cancellation and re-affirming the Compliance requirements of SB1348. This is good.
Secondly, we have established a foundation for a grassroots, populist activist platform of Election Protection actions. We have laid this foundation in the SoS VSPP office and in the elected officials to whom we sent our first round of letters. We have made it known that we expect full support for AVVPAT compliance. We have created a knowledge base of the AVVPAT issue.
Thirdly, by laying this foundation and creating a knowledge base, we have created a vital obstacle to McCormack’s agenda. Now, Politicians and the VSPP people know that California citizens will not tolerate her agenda.
Fourth, we have made the topic of Electronic Election Protection a Mainstream, Integral Element of the California Democratic Platform and Agenda.
This is a Chess game with McCormack, we made a strong offensive move, and we will constantly stay two moves ahead of her.
Each round of letter writings will make it that much harder for McCormack to exploit the “GrandFather” Clause or any other avenue which she may attempt to employ in her insidious quest. McCormack is no longer operating under the Radar. She is no longer in Stealth mode.
So, in April, we will launch another round of letter writings to keep this fight alive and our elected officials ever vigilant against McCormack’s machinations.
We have shown and we will continue to show that California will not tolerate another Kenneth Blackwell.
We have shown and we will continue to show the NeoCon Juggernaut that California will vigorously defend the Sanctity of the Vote.

GOOD WORK PEOPLE

Another JunkYardDogg Election Protection Production

[sojourner]

1. thanks for posting that!!

Should others in other states similarly be on the watch? I sure think they oughtter!!

[Helga Scow Stern]

2. Yay! Nominated. Everyone should know

how it can be done.

Thank you for your excellent work, leadership, and knowledge on this issue!

If you still can, JYD, could you break up you post into paragraphs so it is easier to read?

[ailsagirl]

3. This is great news!! Thank you for the encouraging update

[Andy_Stephenson]

4. Did you get her

disclosure docs?

[JunkYardDogg]

5. Not yet

n/t

[Wilms]

6. What's your take on Connie and InkaVote

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=336599&mesg_id=340204&page=


And, what's this? Her husband designed InkaVote?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x341731#342270

[Peace Patriot]

7. JunkYardDogg, I kept trying to figure out how that March 17 agenda...

...could be twisted to serve Diebold/McCormack's purpose. What do you think of this?

Agenda item #2 (the "grandfathered" systems) did not involve paperless DRE's but rather voting systems that had already been certified by the state before HAVA. They are already grandfathered in. And apparently the counties themselves that have these systems (including L.A. county's Inkavote--McCormack) requested this agenda item, apparently to clarify their situation re a federal qualification timeline. Will they be put on a timeline and what will it be? (They are state "certified" but not federally "qualified"--and I'm not sure what that means in reality, but my guess is HAVA "qualification" has to do with going electronic.)

My first instinct was to say to VSPP: Be tough. No exemptions, no exceptions, no grandfathering in of anything, yes to tight timelines and meeting federal standards, etc. And especially no categorical exemptions--any exemption should be on a case by case basis.

BUT, to "get tough" on these "grandfathered" systems, on federal qualification, likely means pushing them toward HAVA (electronic systems).

So, say VSPP gets tough on L.A. county's Inkavote system. Wouldn't that give McCormack an excuse to go yelling to the Legislature that VSPP was making things impossible for L.A. county--putting Inkavote on an impossible timeline for federal qualification--and what LA county really wants is to go full-HAVA and purchase DRE's? And what SHE wants are Diebold paperless DRE's--which the Calif. paper trail requirement stands in the way of.

In other words, the game McCormack is playing is pitting HAVA (federal qualification) against Calif's (Shelley's) high standard on paper trail (and other auditing measures). HAVA requires electronic but with no paper trail requirement. Calif. requires paper trail.

So maybe we should be pushing for NO timeline, or relaxed timeline, for these already "grandfathered" systems???

You see, it seems to me that the evil force here (in addition to private corporations profiting from, and controlling voting, and of course corrupting many public officials) is HAVA itself, which instead of repairing our election system, after the debacle of 2000, has made it far, far worse, by pushing the states to go electronic prematurely--before such systems were secure and fully tested--and in a helter skelter fashion that made election fraud (and other kinds of fraud--such as fraudulent security certifications) inevitable.

It's become pretty clear that the BushCons in Congress wanted, a) chaos--a non-auditable election system; and b) billions of taxpayer dollars poured into the pockets of Bush donors Wally O'Dell (Diebold), ES&S and others, and other kinds of corruption related to the HAVA pot of gold (Diebold wining and dining public officials, the "revolving door" of employment etc.)

They got their buddies at Diebold and ES&S in control of the voting counting, with no transparency. They prevented HAVA from containing transparency measures, by blocking any moves by public interest minded Democrats in Congress (for instance, preventing a paper trail requirement from getting out of committee). And they got all the states scrambling for a piece of that $3.5 billion, to be able to meet HAVA requirements (going electronic).

Anyway, what do you think of this twist? --that McCormack may WANT the VSPP to "get tough" on Inkavote?

And should we--to counter this move--take the position that these "grandfathered in" systems should be left alone, and NOT required to become federally "qualified" and NOT given a timeline? (I'm not sure if the law requires this timeline thing for already "grandfathered" systems. If not, then that makes it even more likely that Agenda item #2 is a smokescreen. Why are the counties requesting this, if there is no requirement?)

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Note: I think it's important that we figure this one out. We don't want to be opposing the WRONG THING (for instance, opposing going easy on "grandfathered" systems, if that means pushing them toward electronic systems)--in letters to legislators, etc.--and playing right into McCormack's hands.

[JunkYardDogg]

8. It's a Catch 22

1st- The money angle This is following the BushCon Money Kickback Formula
It's being done w/ Haliburton and Iraq Contractors , Fundamentalist Churches as Faith-Based Federal Support, the $300 tax "Refund", and the Federal HAVA money for Electronic Machines
All of these schemes follow the same pattern
They are Federally Funded Bribery Schemes,
the beauty of this scheme is that the BushCons do not even have to use their own Money for the Bribes, they are using Federal Money.
It's a formulized Kickback scheme

GrandFather Issue-
In her public statements, Conny Dearest has adamantly stated that she is in favor of Diebold Equipment and is adamantly against the AVVPAT. She is scrapping the bottom of the barrel for reasons why the Sequoia won't work.
Her big reason being that she needs a machine which can put the ballot out in 7 languages. Like that is some huge task with a Windows based system.
Google has language translation as a native feature. Microsoft has language translation software.
She is vigorously campaigning against AVVPAT. And she is very specific about that. Why????
The InkaVote system, if it didn't use Diebold Gems Tabulators is a
fairly clever in-between from Paper Ballots to DRE's. It relies on Optiscan, which could and has been a problem. Plus people punched holes inside of filing in the space.
If you read "MythBreakers" by Voters Unite, it states that HAVA doesn't mandate DRE's, but I think that DRE's are mandated by a certain date. HAVA just has no Security and Integrity standards whatsoever. Plus it forces DRE on the U.S. , so it sucks.
You have raised good points which we have to think about.
BUT, we still must keep educating the Elected Officials and Board of Supervisors and keep in contact with the SoS VSPP.
Let everybody know that there is no more Stealth Mode for them.

We laid a foundation, now we have to build on it.

[Peace Patriot]

9. Yes, I absolutely agree with this...

"BUT, we still must keep educating the Elected Officials and Board of Supervisors and keep in contact with the SoS VSPP. Let everybody know that there is no more Stealth Mode for them. // We laid a foundation, now we have to build on it."

On the VSPP agenda, I was just trying to figure out what the pressure we exert should be aimed at in that case (that particular agenda). From what you say above, Agenda item#1 (the Sequoia certification) maybe should be supported.

I get the feeling that whenever "federal" comes into this, it's bad. --as with the "grandfathered" systems getting "federally qualified" or Agenda item #3, the secret, proprietary report on federal testing.

The MAIN POINT--as you say--is to provide close scrutiny of the VSPP, the Sos and the legislators, and of course McCormack (and other county officials), rally the public and bring public pressure to bear at the right moments, and develp an agenda of our own aimed at more and more accountability (not less and less, as McCormack wants).

I am proceeding with letters to legislators and possibly L.A. county supes this week. I think we need a LETTER OF THE WEEK here at DU, something fairly simple, that lays out our princples, what we know McCormack is up to, and our unhappiness and worry at the loss of Shelley--with some background refs like "MythBreakers" and contact info for officials. I'll work on this. And it should become easier as the situation becomes clearer. The letter I posted here to the VSPP was hard to write (and got too long and complicated) because the VSPP agenda was so cryptic, and the whole situation is so fluid.

Do you know, by the way, if McCormack has actually inspired any bills that would weaken the AVVPAT requirement (paper trail), or have any legislators announced an intention--or has McCormack said anything about this recently (trying to get Leg to weaken it)?

[Helga Scow Stern]

10. I haven't heard of any McCormack-inspired bills yet...

but I will check again tomorrow.

Please do write a letter of the week on this and we will start sending it.

[Peace Patriot]

11. Okay! I'll work on this Sunday-Monday.

I just remembered that "spot" bill that someone mentioned here at DU, and that Kim Alexander (?) is following. (--"spot" bill to be used to introduce legislation later, on election system issues).

[Helga Scow Stern]

18. AB 369

Introduced by assembly member John Benoit (R-Riverside) that would change the California code section requiring an accessible voter verified paper trail.

That's the spot bill to which you are referring, I assume.

[berniew1]

12. California had lots of election problems including touch screen swithching

http://www.flcv.com/californ.html for details

California Election Problems

Los Angeles(Machine problems, polling place problems, registration misfeasance)


Alameda County(machines not working, voters get provisional ballots, touch screen switching in Presidential race)

Riverside County (Touchscreen switching in Presidential race)


Orange County (Some touch screens aren’t registering presidential vote-default to blank?; , broken machines, long lines, not enough working machines, malfunctioning machines not recording everyones vote)
http://www.flcv.com/orangets.html

Sacramento County (touch screen malfunctions, long lines)

Napa County (touch screen problems)


San Diego. A judge ruled to ignore the votes of thousands of voters who neglected to fill in a bubble beside their “write-in vote” for Donna Frye for mayor. She got the most votes but wasn’t named the winner. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3965


Alameda County. Students at Berkeley were given provisional ballots when they chose the option for paper mandated by the Secretary of State. In one precinct nearly half the ballots were provisional
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=11-16-04&storyID=20110


Riverside County. After Secretary of State Kevin Shelley directed all touch screen counties to provide a paper ballot option, poll workers did not offer it and were resistant to providing it even to those who asked. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3833

Only two of the 10 touchscreen counties, Santa Clara and Plumas, plan to post signs letting voters know they can vote on paper. Even though the voters are properly registered, three counties Alameda, Merced and San Bernardino plan to treat the e-voting objectors' ballots in the same manner as if they weren't registered. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3567

[Peace Patriot]

13. berniew1, thanks for this compendium!

I'm beginning to see why Kevin Shelley described himself as a sheriff--and why he may sometimes have been in a bad mood.

He had more to deal with than the Darth Vader forces moving against him. He had to ride herd on a number of petty fiefdoms and scofflaws--county election establishments--with no desire to have transparent elections and no respect for voters or their votes.

And he couldn't be bribed, and he couldn't be schmoozed, and he wasn't angling for a job with Diebold after his public service, and he believed in honest elections. Poor Shelley!

[JunkYardDogg]

14. So far, no news on Conny Dearest next move

She really can't sponsor any bills
so what are her options-
1. The Grandfather Clause
2. Keep getting Inka Vote re-certed
3. Go to court
4. Pressure McPherson to bypass SB1348
So we Mount an offensive campaign accordingly
1. Grandfather Clause - Continue Educational Campaign w/ VSPP and Elected Officials
2. Inka-Vote recerted- Keep pressure as in #1
3. Go to Court- This means L.A. County would foot the bill-not a popular plan-Keep campaign on Board of Supes
4. McPherson- We keep lettters going to him

Keep building support and awareness base w/Progressive Groups in Calif

[nicknameless]

15. Conny McCormack is also pushing for corporate involvement at...

polling places.

Excerpt from link below. Transcribed to eliminate all-caps format.
http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:xyA8vl5E1NYJ:lacounty.info/BOS/SOP/TRANSCRIPTS/12-16-03%2520Board%2520Meeting%2520Transcript.doc+conny+mccormack+%22CORPORATE+POLL%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en

Conny B. McCormack, registrar/recorder: “I really appreciate the supervisor recognizing the Corporate Poll-Worker Program. This is a new program trying to get corporations more involved in giving their employees to work at the polls on election day. And we’ve got quite a few corporations who have done that and we’re trying to grow the program, so thank you for the recognition and the publicity on the program.”



She has some history of involvement in Texas election fiascos.

From:
http://www.geocities.com/stoutdem/z0209archive.html

“…She presided over the 1982 ballot debacle in Dallas County, where amidst the long recounts (I was there on the recount committee) suddenly extra ballots turned up on a desk in her offices. She then went to Orange County, California, and presided over a disaster of a Congressional election that was fought out in courts and Congress for years. –Stoutdem”



As the Dallas County Elections Administrator, she also presided over the disputed 1985 Dallas election.
http://www.ecotalk.org/SaltmanIrregularitiesList.htm

and an excerpt from:
http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2000-02-10/news/schutze.html

“Our own municipal history offers an instructive case in point: In 1985, Pleasant Grove hardware-store owner and perennial gadfly Max Goldblatt, who was then 74 years old, came within fewer than 500 votes, or a tenth of a percentage point of the overall vote, of forcing A. Starke Taylor, the Citizens Council candidate for mayor, into a runoff.

Goldblatt was an old, funny-looking, not terribly well-spoken guy who raised pathetic money to run against a very smooth, well-known, lavishly funded, silver-haired golf-cart guy. But Dallas people thought Max Goldblatt was clean, and they stormed the polls to vote for him.

In 1988, the Federal Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology published a report on computerized voting in which the 1985 Goldblatt-Taylor race in Dallas was described in some detail. The report explained how Goldblatt actually had been winning on election night when suddenly the vote-counting computer in Dallas experienced an unexplained power failure. When the power came back on, Starke Taylor had moved mysteriously ahead during the downtime. It should have been impossible for the computer to change its mind while it didn't have any electricity.

Subsequent re-counts produced even stranger results, according to the report. When the Texas Legislature tried to investigate the Goldblatt election, Dallas officials reported that all of the ballots had been prematurely destroyed. The Goldblatt election was an important factor in laws passed later by the Legislature requiring tighter security measures for ballots and voting equipment.”



IMO, Conny McCormack is no more a Democrat than Tom DeLay is.

[JunkYardDogg]

16. I'm Impressed

Good Work
Nick Who?
Are you in Calif????
This is good stuff

Thanks

[nicknameless]

20. Hi JunkYardDogg,

Yes, I’m in California.
“Nicknameless” is … just a nickname.

Conny McCormack is an obvious repug operative. I tried, but wasn’t able to find more information about the 1982 Dallas election.
The important point IMHO is to establish her track record for what it has been. Genuine Democratic leaders need to be aware of who this woman really is, and they need to know that their constituents are aware of what her nefarious intentions are.

[JunkYardDogg]

30. Can't get link to work

Nick

I can't get this link to work

http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:xyA8vl5E1NYJ:lacou...

Thanks

[Wilms]

31. If I got it right.

Here's the pdf

http://lacounty.info/BOS/SOP/TRANSCRIPTS/12-16-03%20Board%20Meeting%20Transcript.pdf


Here's the tinyurled, htmled, version!

http://tinyurl.com/4ajxq

[nicknameless]

33. Thanks for locating those, Wilms!

What a fancy .pdf file!

[JunkYardDogg]

34. Thanks

n/t

[nicknameless]

32. Hmm... It disappeared.

It worked fine before... Interesting.

Wilms got it right. See pages 31 and 32 of the .pdf file.

[Wilms]

35. I don't think it disappeared.

Some url's don't work on/with the DU software.

That's where tinyurl.com comes in handy.

You just paste the link into a window, hit enter, and you get a "tiny url" to post here. :)

[nicknameless]

36. It sure seems to have disappeared

I went back to the original document that I had cut/pasted the full url & excerpt into.

Then I pasted that url in the window, but it didn't work. Can’t see what I’m doing differently from last time...
Your link is a .pdf file. My original was a .doc file.
Reiterating: Hmmm...

Thanks for the tinyurl.com tip!

[mod mom]

17. Time for the JunkYardDog Tutorial. nt

[Peace Patriot]

19. I'll be posting LETTER OF THE WEEK #5: The California Coup--later...

...tonight, or early tomorrow morning. I talked to a good CA Senator's aide today, and will post on this later in the week.

[JunkYardDogg]

21. March Meetings

Here are two State meetings:


IMPORTANT:

Yet another update about tomorrow. Once again there are now again TWO IMPORTANT HEARINGS, tomorrow, Wednesday 3/16 on election reform issues.

(Note that the 3/17 Senate hearing to confirm McPherson is still on as previously scheduled--upon adjournment of the Legislature approx. 10:30 a.m.)

CA Sacramento Capitol Hearings Set for Thursday, 3/16:

1) 9:30 a.m. in Room 3191 is the Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee hearing where new legislation regarding absentee ballots, contributions from voting machine companies, conflict of interest and Secretary of State will be heard.

--->Connie McCormack might be there to testify!

2)The other important hearing is at 1:30 p.m. in Room 112 where in addition to other business, two of the Governor's nominees must appear prior to confirmation. Bruce McPherson, nominated for Secretary of State is the first of those nominees. We intend to be at both Senate Hearings.

For Future Reference: Go to www.sen.ca.gov and click on Daily File where a weeks worth of hearings are posted. BTW, you can then scroll down to March 16th and see the bills being considered and click on each bill. Also, this morning hearing is being televised, presumably on the California cable channel.

Note: Mark Kyle and Marc Carrel have resigned from the Voting Systems and Procedures Panel. We hope to influence Bruce McPherson to appoint people who want every vote counted accurately with the paper ballot as the vote, recount, audit and record.

[yurbud]

22. 2002 memo: Diebold purchase approved by LA Board of Supervisors

the memo:

http://regrec.co.la.ca.us/general/boardreports/pdfs/4-22-02.pdf

I just found some 2002 memo by McCormack that says they had to approve the purchase of Diebold machines. I'm going to write them and demand that they say whether they support paper trails, non-partisan equipment suppliers, and open source software. If not, they should be removed. I'll add the letter shortly, in the meantime, consider contacting these guys who are Conny McCormack's bosses:

Michael D. Antonovich
work [phone]
work fax [phone]
[e-mail]
869 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 West Temple Street
Los Angeles CA 90012


Yvonne B. Burke
work [phone]
work fax [phone]
[e-mail]
Hall of Administration
500 West Temple Street, Room 866
Los Angeles CA 90012

Don Knabe
work [phone]
fax [phone]
work http://www.knabe.com/dist_info/supervisor/supervisor_co...
822 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 West Temple Street
Los Angeles CA 90012


Gloria Molina
work [phone]
fax [phone]
[e-mail]
856 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 West Temple Street
Los Angeles CA 90012

Zev Yaroslavsky
work [phone]
fax [phone]
[e-mail]
821 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 W. Temple St.
Los Angeles CA 90012


http://regrec.co.la.ca.us/general/boardreports/pdfs/4-22-02.pdf

[nicknameless]

23. Another excuse for Conny

I haven’t posted enough times to start a thread.
Hope no one minds my adding this link: http://www.contestthevote.org/

It’s a petition to stop Arnold from holding his $70 million special election. The requirement for papertrails on blackboxes doesn’t go into effect until 2006. A 2005 election would circumvent that.

If Arnold gets his election in 2005, before the requirement for a papertrail, doesn’t that create a false emergency for voting systems to be in place? Couldn’t Conny McCormack and others in the enemy camp use that as an excuse to keep Diebold machines? What else could they have ready on time?

[Peace Patriot]

24. This is an excellent post, nicknameless! I think you are on to something.

I was thinking the VSPP agenda to set a timetable for "grandfathered" systems--including McCormack/L.A.county's Inkavote system--was a stealth item, in the sense that McCormack may WANT the VSPP to put give Inkavote a difficult timeline, so she can go complaining to the Legislator that she needs accelerated paperless DREs.

Something like that. But I hadn't thought of the special election as a way to get some "emergency" bill through. I think you are right on.

Someone else here pointed out that there is a spot bill in the Assembly, by John Benoit (R-Riverside) that would change the California code section requiring an accessible voter verified paper trail. A spot bill holds a place in the legislative agenda for later submission of the bill's content. Kim Alexander of CalVoter.org is watching this bill. It may be used by McCormack/Diebold to try to weaken CA’s standard on the “Accessible Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail” (AVVPAT).

This spot bill may be the one that becomes active when McCormarck manufactures her "emergency."

[Peace Patriot]

25. ACTION! See LETTER OF THE WEEK #5: California Coup - just posted, at

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x344437

1. Sample letter to legislators, civic groups, media: sums up our concerns about the California coup, perils to the integrity of our election system, 2004 evidence of election fraud (especially as it pertains to electronic voting), and an action list for legislators and others in government--and the letter has some good quotes in it

2. Reorganized documentation list

3. Additional talking points

[JunkYardDogg]

26. Conny McCormack's Resume

http://regrec.co.la.ca.us/connybio.htm

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
CONNY B. McCORMACK
REGISTRAR-RECORDER/COUNTY CLERK
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

12/95 -
Present REGISTRAR-RECORDER/COUNTY CLERK (RR/CC), Los Angeles Co. CA - Head of Present Department with three major functions. As Registrar of Voters, responsible for conducting elections for the largest electoral jurisdiction in the U.S. with over 4 million registered voters and 5,000 voting precincts. Conducts federal, state and county elections and, via contract, conducts or supports local elections for 88 cities, 100 school districts and 149 special districts. As Recorder/County Clerk, responsible for recording up to 3 million property documents each year; maintaining birth, death and marriage records and issuing up to 700,000 copies of same upon request; issuing 60,000 marriage licenses; and filing 100,000 business names and other statutory oaths and filings annually. Only the Social Security Administration and the Pentagon maintain more records than the 200 million that are on file at the RR/CC. Manages $99 million annual budget; full time staff of 900 with up to 500 temporary employees at peak periods.

11/94 -12/95 ELECTION CONSULTANT, International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), Moscow, Russia - Consultant to the Russian Central Electoral Commission (CEC). Advised CEC in the following areas: 1) election technology, modernizing ballot tabulation procedures; 2) formulation of election laws, recommending provisions to ensure the electoral process met minimum standards for democratic elections; 3) development of training materials for poll workers.

6/87 - 11/94 REGISTRAR OF VOTERS, San Diego County, CA - Responsible for voter registration and election management for l.3 million registered voters. Responsible for conducting federal, state, county and other local elections for 18 cities, 47 school districts and 74 special districts.

7/81 - 5/87 ELECTIONS ADMINISTRATOR, Dallas County, TX - Responsible for voter registration and election management for 750,000 registered voters.

8/78 - 7/81 DIRECTOR, JURY SERVICES DEPARTMENT, Dallas County, TX - Responsible for jury management for Dallas County’s 67 state and county courts.

6/77 - 7/78 CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO VICE-MAYOR, Atlanta, GA- Researched city policy issues; speechwriting; drafting city ordinances and resolutions.

EDUCATION

Penn State University (Journalism); Virginia Polytechnic University (Political Science), B.A.; University of Miami (Politics and Public Affairs), M.A.; Emory University (Political Science) Ph.D. studies (ABD)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS/CONSULTING

- Short-term international assignments as elections consultant or member of election observation team in Nigeria (2004), Indonesia (2001), Yemen (1997), Russia (1995), Mexico (2002/1994), and Armenia (1991).
- Member, Election Center Task Force on Election Reform (2001)
- President, California Association of Clerks and Election Officials, 2004 - 2006
- Member, California Secretary of State’s Voting Systems Advisory Panel, 2001- 2003
- Commissioner, The Speaker’s Commission on the California Initiative Process, 2000 - 2001

[nicknameless]

27. How many of these are appointed positions?

I wonder which people have appointed her.

[JunkYardDogg]

28. Don't Know

We should check out that
Thank's for helping out
'nameless

[Peace Patriot]

29. KICK for current action! --as in kicking ass. n/t