Calif Fight Against McCormack's Assault on Election Protection [View All]

PROTECT CALIFORNIA'S MANDATE THAT ALL ELECTRONIC
VOTING MACHINES as of Jan. 1, 2006 have a Voter Verified
Paper Audit Trail System- VVPAT
Former California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, mandated and established the highest standards and regulations in the U.S. to protect and safeguard the Sanctity of making every vote count with the use of HAVA mandated Electronic Voting Equipment. California's standards exceed any and all current Federal standards. Standards and regulations established by Shelley mandate that ALL Electronic Voting Equipment to be used after Jan. 1, 2006 must have a
Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail System. see:
SB 1348
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/sen/sb_1401-1450/sb_1438_bill_20040927_chaptered.html
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/ks_dre_papers/avvpat_standards_1_21_05.pdf

As of today, there is only one (1) System certified for use in California on Jan. 1, 2006, which is in compliance with a VVPAT
The system is:
Sequoia Voting Systems
Win EDS V.3.0.134
Firmware 4.3.320 with VeriVote
certified 1/21/05
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/certified_vs.pdf
see bottom of page 3

In a full-blown, calculated assault seeking to eradicate and decimate the protections to Electronic Voting integrity presently mandated in California, Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Conny McCormack has launched her own Nuclear Option .
In a Sacramento Bee Article, dated Feb. 4, 2005, by Dan Smith,
"California's chief county elections official says Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's administration has created a "full-blown crisis" that threatens the state's compliance with federal law and its ability to conduct the 2006 elections.
In testimony prepared for a legislative committee, Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Conny McCormack blasted Shelley's process for approving voting machine systems the counties must purchase, and suggested he had manipulated the system "to favor or punish some equipment vendors." She called on the Legislature to step in and take over the process
County election officials have concluded that the voting system certification process in California is completely broken," McCormack, president of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials, wrote to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee scrutinizing Shelley's alleged misuse of millions in federal Help America Vote Act funds. ..."
"McCormack said she is asking lawmakers to pass emergency "narrowly crafted" legislation to override Shelley's office and temporarily certify 2004 systems for use in the 2006 elections. Such legislation also would have to suspend a state law requiring a paper trail.
"There's a paralysis going on that we have to get beyond," McCormack said in an interview. "The situation is beyond dire, and it won't be solved if Kevin Shelley resigns or drops dead tomorrow. ... If Shelley's (office) has the only door, I need the Legislature to get a bulldozer and go in the back of the house."
Counties face a 2006 federal deadline to have state-certified voting systems ready for the elections, but Shelley's office has approved just one Sequoia model, and that is not certified for the June 2006 primary. If the counties are unable to use voting systems that comply with federal law, the results could be vulnerable to legal challenge"
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/shelley/story/12235220p-13099223c.html
McCormack is attempting to use the Secretary of State "Grandfather" clause to carry out her anti-Verified Voting agenda.
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/012005_3abcde_s.pdf
On the March 17 Secretary of State Meeting Agenda, the Issue of "Grandfathered" E-Voting Equipment is listed.
There is where Conny McCormack will mount her assault on California's Mandated Voter Verified Paper Audit System.
We MUST lobby the California Election Board to Protect and Preserve these VVPAT Regulations and repel McCormack's assault on Election Integrity.
The Election Board also is inviting citizen input.
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/vsp_agenda_0317.pdf

Location of Hearing:
VOTING SYSTEMS & PROCEDURES PANEL MEETING (VSPP)
Office of the Secretary of State
1500 11th Street
1st Floor-Auditorium
Sacramento, Calif. 95814
Date:
March 17, 2005 10:00 AM
“Comments must be received no later than 5:00 PM on the Thursday preceding the meeting to ensure their delivery to VSPP members prior to the meeting. If you wish to provide information or to present an oral statement at any meeting, please contact Michael Wagaman at 916-657-2166 or at:
mwagaman@ss.ca.gov
Contact all the appropriate individuals at the California Secretary of State Election offices and let them know that Conny McCormack's Election Integrity Nuclear Option is Unacceptable in California. Make sure that Michael Wagaman is contacted. These are good people.
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_contacts.htm

The defense, preservation, and protection of the sanctity and integrity of the very foundation of American Democracy, the right to have Every Vote counted, cannot and must not be left up to the capricious and arbitrary prejudicial manipulations and machinations of self centered County Clerks whose personal agenda is to seek to undermine and destroy legally mandated and imposed standards of Verified Voting Election Integrity.
It is not the function of Conny McCormack to circumvent California's Legal Election Protection laws. We must not let Conny McCormack be California's Kenneth Blackwell. California cannot and will not tolerate this action. If Conny McCormack is successful getting the VVPAT standards rescinded for L.A. County, this will set a precedent for the rest of California and it will result in all of California’s Electronic Voting safeguards to be null and void. Conny McCormack has absolutely no justification for seeking to invoke, use, and abuse the “Grandfather” clauses.
Start a campaign Now to undermine and terminate Conny McCormack's attempt to destroy California's Election Standards.
Contact ALL of California's Elected Officials, Federal (Senators and Representatives) and the California State Elected officials, and Committee and inform them that McCormack's agenda is unacceptable.exert them to put intense pressure on Conny McCormack.
Contact the California State Assembly Joint Legislative Audit
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/newcomframeset.ascommittee=208p?

California State Assembly
Joint Legislative Audit Committee


Assembly
Nicole Parra, Chair
Dem-30 (916) 319-2030 Assemblymember.Parra@assembly.ca.gov
Greg Aghazarian
Rep-26 (916) 319-2026 Assemblymember.aghazarian@assembly.ca.gov
Jackie Goldberg
Dem-45 (916) 319-2045 Assemblymember.Goldberg@assembly.ca.gov
Johan Klehs
Dem-18 (916) 319-2018 Tim Leslie
Rep-4 (916) 319-2004 Assemblymember.Leslie@assembly.ca.gov
Pedro Nava
Dem-35 (916) 319-2035
Dave Cogdill*
Rep-25 (916) 319-2025 Assemblymember.Cogdill@assembly.ca.gov
Rick Keene*
Rep-3 (916) 319-2003 Assemblymember.keene@assembly.ca.gov
Senate
Charles Poochigian, Vice Chair
Rep-14 (916) 445-9600 Gil Cedillo
Dem-22 (916) 445-3456 Tom McClintock
Rep-19 (916) 445-8873 Bill Morrow
Rep-38 (916) 445-3731 Deborah Ortiz
Dem-6 (916) 445-7807 Gloria Romero
Dem-24 (916) 445-1418 Jackie Speier
Dem-8 (916) 445-0503 * Keene will serve in place of Cogdill for hearings related to “Secretary of State: Help America Vote Act of 2002”.
See Assembly Daily Journal, January 6, 2005, pp. 141-142.
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/newcomframeset.asp?committee=208
Remember,
Unsecure, Unverifiable E-Voting Machines will affect BOTH Federal and State Elections.
For more California Election Standards and Regulations:
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/ks_dre_papers/decert1.pdf

Pass this information along to any other group and persons who you know.

Demolish Conny McCormack’s Bulldozer before she bulldozes California’s Election Integrity Standards.


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