SD election procedures that must be addressed by November to ensure we have an HONEST election.
These are some pretty unbelieveable facts, but are backed up by publications like Wired magazine, the North County Times, KPBS, Citybeat, etc.

LETTER TO SECRETARY OF STATE DEBORAH BOWEN

August 14, 2008

Deborah Bowen
1500 11th Street
Sacramento, California 95814

4344 1/2 Louisiana Street
San Diego, CA 92104
Dear Deborah Bowen,

I am writing on behalf of many concerned and disgruntled San Diegans regarding San Diegos flawed and VERY vulnerable election process. Id like to thank you for your sincere and concerted effort to tighten election recount rules in California.

The recount rules are a start, but San Diego has a long way to go to assure election integrity. We are URGING you to step in and address the issues we are having with the registrar of voters, Deborah Seiler, on this matter to ensure we have a very honest and accurate election in November.

We respectfully request that you decertify the Diebold (currently Premier Accuvote) scanner being used to scan and tally votes and that you implement a comprehensive exit polling system that will help verify vote accuracy. The same scanner used in San Diego elections is featured in the HBO documentary “Hacking Democracy”. The documentary reveals that it is just as easy to hack this scanning and tallying machine as it is to hack the Diebold touchscreens that were recently decertified. We MUST return to paper ballot counting. All machines using proprietary software are vulnerable to fraud. A recent expert, Stephen Spoonamore has more than 20 years experience in most aspects of High Technology facility construction, retrofits, upgrades and equipping. Experience in real-time, extreme high volume, encrypted and networked communications systems for Banks, TV, Telco, EMS, Military and other uses. Spoonamore's specialties include Media/Communications systems, Digital Identity and Authentication Systems, Digital Imagery Systems, Sensor Nets, Intrusion Detection Systems, Electronic Countermeasures, Industrial Minerals, Credit Card Processing, Bank IT Systems, EMS-com - Emergency Management Systems Communications.

He is stating uncontrovertibly that ALL electronic machines can be hacked.

Segment 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAyEfovA404
Segment 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTBLfgos5b8
Segment 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzKbigGoMoo
Segment 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vNvweInGFs
Segment 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX8fRwsTpoQ
Segment 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Kq4dxPwY8
Segment 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsgY4_BB2lo
Segment 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy1sz-xBxf8

I would like to go over several major red flags and try and show you a timeline of events that have occurred that should alarm you as well as every voter.

NOVEMBER 2006
NOVEMBER ELECTION, NOT ENOUGH PAPER BALLOTS

In November of 2006, the Registrar did not order enough paper ballots and sent photocopies making us trust registrar employees to copy our votes onto real ballots.
“Unusually high demand and a printing order that wasn't filled fast enough caused the San Diego County Registrar of Voters to run short of absentee ballots this week. About 5,000 photocopies were mailed out instead, said Registrar of Voters Mikel Haas.
But there's nothing to fear, Haas said. “Their votes will be counted.”
When those ballots are returned, registrar's employees will copy voters' choices by hand onto regular card stock ballots that can be run through the optical scanners that count the votes. “
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20061103/news_1n3ballots.html

MAY 2007
SD HIRES 2 VERY CONTROVERSIAL AND SUSPECT FIGURES TO RUN REGISTRAR OF VOTERS
Hiring of Deborah Seiler and Micheal Vu from Ohio May 11, 2007 to run the registrar office..

Citybeat: 'And that's it'
By Kelly Davis
Former Diebold Sales Rep Becomes Registrar of Voters in San Diego
County dismisses critics of elections-office hires
A year ago, an audit by an independent elections review board described Vu's handling of Cuyahoga County 's May 2006 primary as an "across-the-board failure."
Sacramento Bee Citizen Blog Spot
http://citizensboe. blogspot. com/2007/05/back-to-vu-san-diego-cas-whole. html
"Seiler's hiring was the second decision by the county in the last month or so to raise questions from election watchdogs."
Wired Magazine
"Joining Seiler in the San Diego elections office is another election official beleaguered by controversy -- Michael Vu. Until recently, Vu was the elections director in Cuyahoga County in Ohio . He resigned in the wake of a number of critical reports depicting problems with how his office conducted elections and how machines made by Diebold performed. His resignation also followed the conviction of two election workers in his office who were found guilty of rigging a recount in the 2004 presidential election. Vu was recently made assistant registrar of voters in San Diego ."
Wired Magazine
http://blog. wired. com/27bstroke6/2007/05/former_diebold_. html

JUNE 2007
NORTH COUNTY TIMES RAISES CONCERNS

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/06/07/news/top_stories/1_03_326_6_07.txt
"Seiler also said she was comfortable with the county's decision to hire another controversial elections official, Michael Vu, as assistant registrar.

Vu resigned in February as executive director of Ohio's Cuyahoga County election board, where two elections workers were convicted of rigging a 2004 presidential election recount. Cuyahoga county also made news in November 2006 when electronic voting problems prompted a federal court to order 16 polling stations to stay open more than 90 minutes after the 7:30 p.m. closing time. "

Seiler said she saw no problems with the county hiring Vu -- who was hired before Seiler.

AUGUST 2007
NORTH COUNTY TIMES SOUNDS ALARM

http://www. nctimes. com/articles/2007/08/12/perspective/21_25_528_10_07. txt

"The e-voting experiment will not end quietly. ... The county is trying to maintain its iron grip on elections by ensuring secret vote-counting continues in the guise of optical scanners. After all, three members of the same Board of Supervisors that brought us the e-voting fiasco are facing re-election. Honest elections create uncertainty in those depending on them for power. To protect Diebold's interest in getting paid and the county's control over elections, look for the board to cut a deal with Diebold whereby the county abandons the touch-screens and buys Diebold's optical scanners at the same price as the more expensive touch-screens." (I believe this is exactly what happened)

"At the center is Registrar of Voters Deborah Seiler, who is in the unenviable position of having to prove to county officials that the products she sold them when working for Diebold are what she said they were. And she has to prove to citizens that she is representing their interest in verifiable and secure elections. But if successful, it only serves to confirm that Seiler is still looking out for her former, and possibly future, employer. Already calls are out for Seiler to recuse herself from any deliberations concerning what to do about the Diebold contract. If Seiler has her way, most voters will be mailing in their ballots to be secretly counted on Diebold's opti-scan. But a more enlightened Bowen may end that possibility by recognizing the risks inherent in that method,

I have received 2 letters in the last 6 months from the registrars office urging me and everyone to become a mail in voter and to get it in early! too. And the possibility has also been floated that registrars may just ignore Bowen's orders and continue perpetuating the fraud"

JANUARY 2008 ELECTION,
NOT ENOUGH PRECINCT TALLYING MACHINES ORDERED

KPBS
San Diego's Registrar Urges Absentee Voters to Get Ballots in Soon

http://www. kpbs. org/news/local;id=11911

"All the paper ballots will have to be brought to the Registrar's office to be counted this year, instead of being counted at the polling places. That's because the Registrar hasn't been able to purchase enough tally machines for every precinct."

Isnt this her job and isn’t 9 months enough time to order some?

DECEMBER 2007

DB OPTICAL SCANNER MEMORY CHIPS ARE “LOST” IN THE MAIL BEFORE FEB PRIMARY

In December prior to Feb primary precinct scanner chips went missing....

BLOGGED BY John Gideon ON 12/19/2007 3:31PM
San Diego's Diebold Election Software 'Lost In Transit'
EPROM Chips Fed-Exed from CA Secretary of State Turn Up Missing, Package Arrives Empty, Police Investigating
UPDATE: SoS Confirms Precinct-Based Scanner Chips Missing, Will Voting Machine 'Sleepovers' Be Held Anyway?
Two shipping tubes sent from the California Secretary of State's office in Sacramento to the San Diego County Election Office arrived without their contents. The tubes left the SOS Office with more than 174 memory chips, or Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EPROM), containing firmware for the county's Diebold/Premier central-count optical scan voting machines. UPDATE: Precinct-based op-scan chips confirmed by the SoS to be missing as well! See update info at end of article.

The tubes arrived in San Diego but they were empty. The chips are now considered to be either lost or stolen.

SEILER CONSIDERED BAD ATTITUDE
Seiler is considered a registrar w/ a bad attitude as a result of her lawsuit over tighter voting rules

http://www.sandiegopolitico.com/2007/12/san-diego-still-hates-clean-elections.html

JUNE 2008 ELECTION
Anomolies w/ election results.San Diego had the highest turnout ever in Feb Presidential Primary. In June Primary that had some big ticket items like Mayor, Council and City atty had the lowest turnout ever.

Goldsmith consistently polled at 15%, 16% and at the highest 21% June 2nd, after most votes had been cast (most were mail-in) and then garnered 32% in the election on June 3rd, grabbing ALL undecideds and then some. Same poll was dead on correct about Aguirre’s numbers.

Sanders grabbed all undecideds (highly unusual especially because undecideds are usually unhappy w/ the incumbant)

AUGUST 2008
CURRENT LAWSUIT BY VOTERS IN REGARDS TO FEBRUARY PRIMARY

This article just came out about a major lawsuit filed by SD voters contending election mishandling and potential fraud in Feb primary.

Lawsuit by voters
http://www.examiner.com/a-1528140~Group_seeks_tighter_ballot_security_in_San_Diego.html

"Election workers at county headquarters accepted unsealed and unsigned boxes of ballots for processing, according to statements from volunteers who observed the February tally. A troubleshooting log indicated dispatchers told poll workers not to worry about missing seals after the county ran out of the red locking tabs."

Are you kidding me? The red seals are the ONLY thing that ensures ANY sort of protection.
So basically SD Registrar did not order enough
1. paper ballots
2. precinct tallying machines
3. Security seals
This is very convenient for someone who wants to rig an election.

In my experience, no one asked to see any identification whatsoever at the polls.

DOUBLED UP VOTER REGISTRATION
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/justfixit/20080806-9999-lz1m6fixit.html

I appreciate your prompt attention to this urgent matter.
Sincerely
Christine Mann
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SAN DIEGO REGISTRAR OF VOTERS RED FLAGS

RED FLAG 1:

Hiring of Deborah Seiler and Micheal Vu from Ohio May 11, 2007 to run the registrar office..

Former Diebold Sales Rep Becomes Registrar of Voters in San Diego

County dismisses critics of elections-office hires
A year ago, an audit by an independent elections review board described Vu's handling of Cuyahoga County's May 2006 primary as an "across-the-board failure."
Citybeat: 'And that's it'
By Kelly Davis
http://citizensboe. blogspot. com/2007/05/back-to-vu-san-diego-cas-whole. html
"Seiler's hiring was the second decision by the county in the last month or so to raise questions from election watchdogs."
"Joining Seiler in the San Diego elections office is another election official beleaguered by controversy -- Michael Vu. Until recently, Vu was the elections director in Cuyahoga County in Ohio. He resigned in the wake of a number of critical reports depicting problems with how his office conducted elections and how machines made by Diebold performed. His resignation also followed the conviction of two election workers in his office who were found guilty of rigging a recount in the 2004 presidential election. Vu was recently made assistant registrar of voters in San Diego."
Wired Magazine
http://blog. wired. com/27bstroke6/2007/05/former_diebold_. html

RED FLAG 2

We got rid of the Diebold voting machines but got Diebold Optical Scannerschines but bought Diebold optical scanners which are just as prone to hacking.
Check out the video "Hacking Democracy"
http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=J36Jfkxd1vA
http://www. scoop. co. nz/stories/HL0505/S00381. htm

From North County Times

"The e-voting experiment will not end quietly. ... The county is trying to maintain its iron grip on elections by ensuring secret vote-counting continues in the guise of optical scanners. After all, three members of the same Board of Supervisors that brought us the e-voting fiasco are facing re-election. Honest elections create uncertainty in those depending on them for power. To protect Diebold's interest in getting paid and the county's control over elections, look for the board to cut a deal with Diebold whereby the county abandons the touch-screens and buys Diebold's optical scanners at the same price as the more expensive touch-screens." (I believe this is exactly what happened)

"At the center is Registrar of Voters Deborah Seiler, who is in the unenviable position of having to prove to county officials that the products she sold them when working for Diebold are what she said they were. And she has to prove to citizens that she is representing their interest in verifiable and secure elections. But if successful, it only serves to confirm that Seiler is still looking out for her former, and possibly future, employer. Already calls are out for Seiler to recuse herself from any deliberations concerning what to do about the Diebold contract. If Seiler has her way, most voters will be mailing in their ballots to be secretly counted on Diebold's opti-scan. But a more enlightened Bowen may end that possibility by recognizing the risks inherent in that method, too.And the possibility has also been floated that registrars may just ignore Bowen's orders and continue perpetuating the fraud"

RED FLAG 3

Then: Ms Seiler transfers us from poll counting to centralized counting system.

"All the paper ballots will have to be brought to the Registrar's office to be counted this year, instead of being counted at the polling places. That's because the Registrar hasn't been able to purchase enough tally machines for every precinct."
KPBS

RED FLAG 4:

In December prior to Feb primary precinct scanner chips went missing....

San Diego's Diebold Election Software 'Lost In Transit'
EPROM Chips Fed-Exed from CA Secretary of State Turn Up Missing, Package Arrives Empty, Police Investigating
UPDATE: SoS Confirms Precinct-Based Scanner Chips Missing, Will Voting Machine 'Sleepovers' Be Held Anyway?
Two shipping tubes sent from the California Secretary of State's office in Sacramento to the San Diego County Election Office arrived without their contents. The tubes left the SOS Office with more than 174 memory chips, or Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EPROM), containing firmware for the county's Diebold/Premier central-count optical scan voting machines. UPDATE: Precinct-based op-scan chips confirmed by the SoS to be missing as well! See update info at end of article.

The tubes arrived in San Diego but they were empty. The chips are now considered to be either lost or stolen.

RED FLAG 5:
Anomolies w/ election results.
San Diego had the highest turnout ever in Feb Presidential Primary. In June Primary that had some big ticket items like Mayor, Council and City atty had the lowest turnout ever.

Goldsmith consistently polled at 15% and then garnered 32% in the election virtually grabbing ALL undecideds and then some.

Sanders grabbed all undecideds (highly unusual especially because undecideds are usually unhappy w/ the incumbant)

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