LA Elections in Crisis: URGENT - Move NOW to Save YOUR Vote

Written by: F. Gluck on Feb 12, 2008 2:37 PM EST

Linked to groups: DFA Santa Monica

Folks, if ever there was a time to protect YOUR vote in LA, it's NOW. This is very very serious. Thanks!
Sheri Myers, workthevotela.org (Pass this along, please!)

Despite a record-breaking turnout of 189,000 voters registered as "Decline-to-State" (DTS)…
Dean Logan, L.A.'s Registrar of Voters, is still refusing to physically hand-count these ballots, effectively disenfranchising 94,500 -- at least HALF -- of DTS voters… because they didn't fill in an extra bubble before voting for President.

Who’s responsible for the flawed ballot design? Dean Logan!

LOS ANGELES DESERVES BETTER!! Come on, get outraged, and SPEAK UP!!!

10 MINUTES: 4 ACTIONS TO TAKE:
1)Sign the Courage Campaign petition to demand a real count… http://www.couragecampaign.org/

2) IF YOU HAD A PROBLEM VOTING: Fill out the online incident report, that Work the Vote will analyze: http://www.workthevotela.org/incident-report-form.php

3) Call County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's office [(213) 974-3333 and voice your opinion.

Demand that our County Registrar DO HIS JOB!

ALSO Tell Zev it is highly inappropriate for Dean Logan to sign a 6-year contract with SOE SOFTWARE to manage our elections. Here’s one of the many reasons why:

SOE Software Creates Havoc in Palm Beach
4) Cut and Paste: Email or snail mail this letter (below) crafted by the LA California Election Protection Network.
(Did you know the job hunt for a new Registrar was unnecessarily delayed, AND, that the job no longer requires a college degree? That’s to administrate the largest county in the United States!)


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Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky
821 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 West Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012


Dear LA County Supervisor

In the wake of Los Angeles County's Super Tuesday's, February 5, 2008, primary election that resulted in at least 94,000 uncounted ballots, mass confusion over polling place consolidations, and vote caging that purged eligible voters from the voter rolls, I support the demands of the Los Angeles County chapter of the California Election Protection Network (CEPN) that you, a public servant, address this urgent matter:

a) Immediately instruct the Interim Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Dean Logan to, despite his public pronouncements to the contrary, publicly count all 94,000 uncounted double-bubble ballots given to Declined to States and American Independent Party voters. To do otherwise would constitute a violation of the California Constitution. (We can share with you a process for the count.)

b) Ensure and monitor a nationwide search for an LA County Registrar of Voters with an unblemished professional history, free of conflicts of interests and financial ties to the election system vendors, committed to counting every ballot accurately as cast, and a demonstrated willingness to maintain an open dialogue with election integrity advocates

c) Provide us with an explanation of the nearly-six week delay in the County’s posting of the job for Registrar following the December 11, 2007 Supervisors meeting, at which it was stated that the job bulletin was close to being finalized.

d) Work with the LA County Human Resources Department to follow up on requests that ensure the qualifications for LA Co ROV meet or exceed the college graduation requirements for LA County dog catcher

e) Request the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office investigate criminal activity involving vote caging -- whereby voters are scrubbed from the rolls after failing to respond to voter registration confirmations disguised as innocuous junk mail solicitations

f) Establish a county task force to study the voter suppression effects of polling place consolidations, to consider the implementation of protocols, such as focus groups, to guard against confusing ballot designs, and to recommend systems that will ensure quick and timely dissemination of key instructions to poll supervisors at work during an election

I look forward to your immediate response.

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