Are we the voter protection email list?
"Coto, Baca, Torrico, De la Torre, Arrumbula, Nava, Montanez, Parra, Calderon, Salinas, Levine, Klehs, Hancock, Chan, and Laird for starters."
Plus the other four, Dymally, Koretz, Goldberg, and Saldana.
Maybe we should send them that excellent Sacramento Bee (!) editorial posted in the McPherson Watch thread for starters:
Editorial: Voting Regulation Must be Vital to Calif. Secretary of State
by Steven Hill, The Sacramento Bee
March 17th, 2005
California is about to hire a new secretary of state. If former state Sen. Bruce McPherson is confirmed by the Legislature, which seems likely, he will have to decide whether to continue reforms to California's election practices begun by his predecessor, Kevin Shelley.
His decisions will be crucial to the future of California's elections.
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The secretary of state's office oversees a little-known appointed body called the Voting Systems and Procedures Panel. This VSPP is charged with managing the certification of voting equipment, not only software and hardware but also detailed election administration procedures, including testing of the equipment and procedures. They are supposed to ensure that election equipment functions accurately and securely.
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Now county election officials have mounted their latest lobbying effort - to overturn Shelley's mandate for a voter-verified paper trail. There is something troubling about county election officials having a lobbying agenda focused on elections policy rather than operations efficiency. They are supposed to implement the laws, not decide which ones to ignore.
The words "special interest" have been overused lately, but election officials in California have become one. And that's not how it's supposed to be.
--snip
https://www.verifiedvoting.org/article.php?id=5654Maybe send this combined with the information that the VSPP panel that was scheduled for the March 17 and transferred to April 21 will be about these very issues, complete with Conny McCormack herself.
Edited to add this information from pauldp:
On Thursday, April
21st, Conny McCormack, LA's Registrar, will make the
case to the Voting Systems and Practices committee
that Shelley's decertification of the Diebold
touchscreens should be overturned!
It's the Voting Systems and Proceedures Panel Meeting
It's at 10am at the office of SOS 1500 11th St. 1st Fl. Sacramento.
Michael Wagaman is apparently taking names of people who wish to make an oral statement. His #: 916 657-2166
mwagaman@ss.ca.gov