The California Election Protection Network (CEPN) has issued a ‘No Confidence’ Resolution in regard to the Busby/Bilbray Election held on June 6th in San Diego County.
The non-partisan election watchdog network, comprised of more than 25 election integrity groups, has also issued a press release this morning announcing that the elections held in SD County “were conducted under illegal conditions” due to the Registrar having sent voting machines home for overnights with poll workers for days and weeks prior to election day, in direct violation of state and federal rules, laws and provisions.
The statement goes on to call for a manual hand count of the ballots to be paid for by the SD County Registrar, charging that the office has the “obligation to conduct a proper election, not bill the people to pay for his blunder.”
A few grafs from that news release today:
In February, Secretary of State Bruce McPherson released a security report he had commissioned of Diebold touch screen (DRE) and optical scan voting machines. The report authored by University of California computer scientists concluded that the machines should never be left in the presence of fewer than two people, because one person alone could implant malicious code that could alter vote-counting functions without leaving any detectable evidence.
In San Diego County poll workers were allowed to take the machines for “sleepover” storage in their homes for days prior to the election.
…
“These elections were conducted under illegal conditions. The results could very well have been compromised, and we have no basis for confidence in the reported results,” said CEPN member, Dan Ashby.
…
“The San Diego election department’s violation of legal election procedure invalidated the original machine count,” said Ashby. “It is the San Diego registrar’s obligation to conduct a proper election, not bill the people to pay for his blunder.”
— CEPN’s complete press release can be read here…
— CEPN’s ‘No Confidence Resolution’ can be read here…
CEPN is urging citizens and members to sign Velvet Revolution’s petition demanding a manual hand count of all ballots in the race.
In their statement and declaration, CEPN has joined several other organizations and individuals who have declared ‘No Confidence’ in the race who are demanding that the ballots be counted by hand. Included amongst those are Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), VelvetRevolution.us, and Tribune Media columnist Robert Koehler. As well, VoteTrustUSA has condemned the “egregious violations” in the election and U.S. House Nominee (CA-49) Jeeni Criscenzo has come out to discuss the “outrageous breaches in security” during the election, in which she also ran on June 6th (and won!).
I think you forget, Brad.. Those in charge don’t have to adhere to the law.. Just ask Shrubby!
I sure hope this picks up stink, fast! We need to make sure we have a secure chain on these machines, despite the fact that we really shouldn’t have them at ALL.. We need to take what we can get, for now.. And that means that at a MINIMUM, the LAW needs to be followed (to at least make it more difficult for cheaters to cheat, despite the laws not being able to prevent the cheating given the current state of the machines).
Seems to me enough people are screaming, “No confidence,” that they will HAVE to do a manual count now.
http://www.wonkette.com/politic...ght-181733.php awesome!!! bilbrays kids at myspace. look quick before its gone. family values
Whats that in the background of the CEPN logo ?
Is that W’s brand of ass wipe ?
All aboard for the Republidem photo op swearing in Bilbray while all the ballots are uncounted bla bla bla on an election that was run on “stay at pollworkers homes” diebold electronic voting machines. Put that on the cover of the people magazine. US democracy at work.
OT This bush/cheney administration will be responsible for massive specie extinctions because of their bushit US energy policy. We need to concentrate on immediately dealing with educating people of the world on reducing global warming.
loosechange9/11.com to view LOUDER THAN WORDS 2ND ED view for free dedicated to those who died on 9/11 caused by the Bush administration against the American people. Bush war of lies which has increased the “real” terrorist threat because those people in Iraq know the truth and have to live with their massive civilian death toll rising everyday.
There will be massive specie extinctions in 40 years or less because of climate changes from human burning fossil fuels. Check out the book Stormy Weather 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change by Guy Dauncy and Patrick Mazza New Society Publishers. We can still make a difference!!! We need US action not another study .
Who should suffer the expense that it will cost to hand count the ballots and audit the machine tapes of the Busby/Bilbray election.
The expense of the hand count should not be charged to the individual who formerly requests the hand count.
The lack of confidence brought to this election was not caused by this party who requests the hand count.
Why should this individual or group be charged and suffer the hand count cost ? They only seek to right a wrong and remedy negligent conduct that was allowed
by San Diego County Registrar Mr. Mikel Haas. Nor were
the resident of California or San Diego County responsible for this failed election. They should not be further damaged with the expectation that they pay the cost of this hand count.
The individual who was negligent and caused this election to come into serious question by failing
to protect the integrity of the election process,..
was clearly the Registrar Mr. Mikel Haas. Why should he not bare the entire costs of the hand count. He was hired to this job to protect the best interests of the voters and the integrity of the election. He failed miserably in the performance of that job. He,.. and he
alone should pick up the cost of this hand count,.. to right this failed election. Charging Mr. Haas directly for these costs of the hand count is is not a virgin
concept,.. it has been done before. Forfeit one months payroll as a sanction for failure to carry out duties and responsibilities adequately. It was done to an election administrator in Ohio,.. Please see link.
It is not a novel concept – fail in the adequate performance of your job responsibilities,.. then you suffer the consequences for those blatant shortcomings.
Link : Forfeit Pay
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fu...54C0A9639C8B63
Floridiot,.. (C) # 4
Did you say gwbu$$h has to go poop ?
Fresh roll just put in place,.. he’s all set.
Click link
.
.
.
Thanks to CEPN & the congressmember for keeping this story alive!
———————–
Here’s some satire for you:
Diebold announces “unhackable” VERSION 8.0
———————–
BTW, my Flash presentation was at #13 at the “Contagious Festival” until The Huffington Post decided to promote 2 other entries, exclusively, on their front page. It’s now at #15. Hopefully, they’ll do the same for the Flash Slapdown.
Thanks again, guys!
.
.
.
The Commonweal Institute is pleased to endorsed the CEPN “No Confidence” resolution calling for a hand count in San Diego’s CD 50 election.
Dennis Paull #9
I took a quick trip around your web site. I like what you have to offer.
Keep up your good work!
Thanks