AboutUs Citizens Oversight, Inc. is a nonprofit public benefit Delaware corporation with primary offices in California. The Certificate of Incorporation for Citiz...
Latest News AuditEngine Case Study Report AuditEngine was used to audit three counties in Florida: Collier, Volusia, and St. Lucie Counties. Learn about audit en...
Background This lawsuit was filed due to our request to view ballots was denied by the Registrar of Voters, Michael Vu. The goal of this request and the first few...
CitizensOversight.org Reveals Thousands of Ballots Misplaced and Hundreds Uncounted by San Diego County Registrar of Voters in November, 2008 General Election S...
Sub projects Latest News The Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United v. FEC a new president has been made out of whole cloth.! The majority is violating the Su...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. And very recently, we have had a few breakthroughs putting...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. The most active projects have been related to the San Onof...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. Since this was an election year, the most active projects ...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. Since this was an election year, the most active projects ...
ClubConvention The CouncilOfClubs will be throwing a ClubConvention on Sept. 8th, 2007. The goal of the convention is to promote participation in the clubs. A sc...
CommonProjects The general organization of projects can be found here: COPsProgram. * Cops.GovernmentAccessChannel The City of El Cajon utilizes Cox cable c...
#ConcludingRemarks Concluding Remarks Some concluding remarks are in order. Opinions are those of the primary investigator, Raymond Lutz. RoV not prepared for o...
Foreword This report was produced by volunteers and contributors without any corporate or foundation support. Please visit http://www.copswiki.org/Common/COPsRov...
Latest News * December2012FundraisingEmail Background This topic will help us to organize our fundraising efforts. Citizens Oversight has reached a new level...
CopsUpdate2014Oct05 * http://// == click here for Web Version of this page, for best viewing. * CopsUpdates Archive of all COPS updates emails. * http:/...
Citizens' Oversight Projects Update We are now introducing a new weekly email blast to copsmain list. Our intention is to collect the upcoming events so you can a...
The Comparative Optical Recognition Election Completion Technique (CORECT)TM This topic has been renamed OpenBallotInitiative. Please visit that topic for details...
CrowdWatch is a smartphone app (Android and iPhone) that helps users to find important "watch points" near them, then provide instructions about how to provide ef...
Current Events Theater shows a variety of topical videos about a variety of subjects. Screenings in 2006 2008 at the RanchoSanDiegoLibrary. Starting in 2009, we w...
Click here to view on web: CITIZENS OVERSIGHT 2012 YEAR END FUNDRAISING LETTER Dear Friend: The Citizens' Oversight Project is growing and becoming even more ...
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Project Overview This project is to fight against election scams bent on voter suppression. A number of the popular suppression schemes range from laws that suppr...
ElectionAuditBestPractices It is not possible to conduct an audit unless a "Voter Verified Paper Trail" (VVPT) is available. This means the voter is able to confi...
Background This lawsuit is regarding the 1% manual audit which is mandated by California Election code section 15360. That code specifies that all ballots cast in...
Latest News This project provides a place to gather up and organize links to various initiatives regarding audits, including statistical and exhaustive approaches...
Overview We need help to harvest election data during election night and as the elections are subsequently processed. We have software to automatically check elec...
Background This project is used to provide detailed information about election equipment. Verified Voting provides a database of all equipment: https://www.verifi...
ElectionIntegrityFAQS This is a working topic which will be updated and reorganized based on questions that are received and answers composed. Hopefully, this wil...
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ElectionIntegrityTeamMeeting2014May29 This is the invitation that was sent out. We had about 10 people at the meeting. ELECTION INTEGRITY TEAM MEETING, MAY 29, 20...
Welcome! Citizens' Oversight Projects is developing a network of citizens who can help us provide oversight of our rigged and hacked elections! We need your help ...
. Welcome! *Can you volunteer to video record the random draw and manual tally! Please signup here: http://citizensoversight.org/signup * Citizens' Oversight Pro...
Latest News This topic is now being used as a basis for more general instructions, here: ElectionOversightProcedures The primary election has many new development...
ElectionOversightProcedures * Common.WelcomeElectionOversightNewbies A starting point for new arrivals to our election oversight project * Common.StateElec...
Latest News We will be improving the procedures listed above as we generalize them for the situations across the country. Audit Database We are building a databa...
ElectionTeamEmail_2016 08 07 * read this as a web page: http://www.copswiki.org/Common/ElectionTeamEmail_2016 08 07 * read the next email: ElectionTeamE...
ElectionsDistrictsInCA This page extracted from the CA Secretary of State website in 2014 http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_d.htm Sent all districts on ...
EventsArchive EventsArchive2009 Calendar events for 2009 2006 Paste in events that are deleted from the Calendar Page. * 30 Sep 2006 Hanson Fundraiser, R...
HelpAmericaVoteAct Text of the law: http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/hava.pdf The changes in our voting system were instigated by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) o...
KeywordList Include this in the Media Form table to allow dynamic generation. Normally, it is possible to use a topic to list the options but the select item is c...
Introduction Citizens' Oversight Projects has made progress in a focus on election integrity. It has become clear that changes in the elections code is our only c...
* COPS_News_Release_2010 11 08_Manual_Tally_Issues_in_2010_AND_C00027_combined.pdf: Press Release and C00027 (Note: Corrected on 2010 11 08 by adding the word NOT...
By: CHRIS BAGLEY Staff Writer SACRAMENTO Although the state's chief elections official had signaled the possibility that she would order the replacement or ma...
By: CHRIS BAGLEY Staff Writer Voting machines used in Riverside and numerous other California counties are vulnerable to manipulation by politically motivated h...
The following was the request to the San Diego County RegistrarOfVoters: 1 All audit logs from the central tabulator and precinct machines. 2 The "Windows E...
Polling site may sway your vote, study says Robbie Sherwood The Arizona Republic Aug. 14, 2006 12:00 AM Think about the place where you filled out your ballot dur...
This event was sponsored by the League of Women Voters and Common Cause, and was held in Carlsbad, CA on January 25, 2013. * Welcome Mary Crowley, President,...
* Letter_To_Rov Snapshot_Request_for_June_2014_2014 05 15.pdf: Letter to the Registrar of Voters requesting cooperation in our oversight process for June 2014 Re...
The following is data from the San Diego County RegistrarOfVoters for the June 2014 SnapshotProtocol * snapshot2014 06.zip: Raw snapshot data, compressed (unco...
Improving the Security, Transparency and Efficiency of California's 1% Manual Tally Procedures Joseph Lorenzo Hall, UC Berkeley School of Information1 Abstract: ...
Registrar had vote count issues before Vu says there’s no connection between Ohio case and Chula Vista By Greg Moran8 p.m.Jan. 23, 2015 San Diego County Registra...
Latest News * AB 840 modified on August 28 to allow only early VBM and Polls ballots now signed into law. * In the appellate court, they judged that due t...
San Diego County Registrar of Voters Michael Vu at Interfaith Community Services in Escondido. Gary Warth Just weeks after leaving his job after three controversy...
Hearing Reminder * July 6, 3pm * San Diego Superior Court, 330 W. Broadway * Dept. C 73, (West annex, 6th Floor) * SORRY YOU MISSED IT! Here is a vide...
* 0607_E_public_notice_1.pdf: Public notice of the random draw and manual tally * Audit report and analysis * ManualTallySelectionMeetingTranscript.pdf: Tra...
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) — A court case has been filed against the Registrar of Voters for not including all votes when he conducted an audit as required by law. It charg...
Here is some evidence of possible election fraud in San Diego. It is clear that more information is needed to determine if these actions are legal or not. We find...
* Invite email and Agenda for this meeting: Election Team Email 2016 08 07 * Audio recording of the Election Oversight Team conference call of 2016 08 10 A...
Background Roster Review is conducted after the election as soon as voter sign in rosters are available. This procedure is * a check on the chain of custody o...
* ElectionTeamEmail_2016 08 16 See this topic for the email just before the conference call which includes the agenda for the conference call meeting. * El...
Please also see this topic for all lawsuit related information: ElectionAuditLawsuit Initial lawsuit filing: * Graphic summarizing the election audits:
Election Team Email 2016 08 25 (read this as a web page: ) THANK YOU FOR VOLUNTEERING TO JOIN OUR ELECTION OVERSIGHT TEAM! * This is conference call #3 since...
Election lawsuit on track for October trial Plaintiffs want registrar to count provisional ballots in quality control audit By Joshua Stewart 2:37 p.m. Aug. 23...
There will be a recount. Two days after Democrat Darryl Rouson was determined to be leading fellow Democrat Ed Narain in the closest primary in Florida, Florida S...
Related Topics: * OversightSuggestionsInArizonaAndFlorida Comments, first video: * Left to right: Supervisor of Elections (SOE), Wesley Wilcox, Judge Jim Mc...
Election Team Email 2016 09 04 This email contains hyperlinks that should be clickable. If not, please view this link in your browser: Greetings: Welcome to o...
These files were provided in response to a request for procedures at the San Diego County ROV and also the central tabulator audit log. Request document is includ...
Citrus County Random Selection and Audit Process Random Audit Selection September 6, 2016 Canvassing Board: Citrus Supervisor of Elections, Susan Gill, County Co...
Press Conference Video https://youtu.be/SgHxz1 u7vY * Padillas_letter_to_ROVs.16295sr.pdf: Letter from SOS General Counsel Reyes on Election Audit Lawsuit Re...
Data archived * All data related to this issue is archived at this link: https://citizensoversightinc.sharefile.com/d sb5cc70a9f114065b * ex59 certified asr...
Ballot Images = Transparent, Trackable, Publicly Verifiable Elections as a Solution to Prevent Election Fraud. Ballot Images are an impunity buster. Fraction Mag...
Experts: State should audit election results Michael Gerstein , The Detroit News 12:06 a.m. EDT October 17, 2016 file voting machine (Photo: Robin Buckson / Detro...
The voting tallies are attached along with all relevant screenshots. Below are my notes, methodology, analysis, and conclusion. Notes: #1 Data for a greenstate co...
Comments by Patricia Gracian: Christine, Mike Russell, and I made it for the Nov 15 VBM batch random number draw. Michael Vu said he would send Ray the procedure...
Report by Main.JustinLeBlanc Regarding the "Statement of the Vote" released by the Sacramento ROV, while there is granularity to the report, there are several adm...
Hi Ray, So, I was a witness to the random selection meeting. I was unable to video record it, as the employees of Alameda County Registrar told me that it is no...
This is the second round selection for VBM batches. The only issue we have is we did not get the snapshot file for ALL batches. Part 1 Part 2 * List_1RandomS...
Our recording of the random draw for this audit is extremely concerning, visibly showing likely sleight of hand manipulation. A subsequent video from a different ...
On Tuesday, November 22, 2016, I took a round robin tour of four election district offices in Southern California: Orange County, Los Angeles County, San Bernardi...
On my way to LA, I called Santa Clara Registrar's office to confirm the time of the random drawing (11:00 am). At that time, I was able to video the drawing which...
They conclude that: "Overall, this study provides valuable quantitative and qualitative evidence that manual post election auditing is not an error free process. ...
The PNG image standard is a proposed format for The OpenBallotInitiative. It has many positive features: * CRC error detection on chunk by chunk basis. * Ex...
* Principles and Best Practices for Post Election Audits The following is an html version of the document with some comments. Principles and Best Practices for...
Note: This article refers to the CVR Cast Vote Record standard being developed under the umbrella of NIST, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. ...
* LetterToVuOnVBMManualTallyDiscrepancies.pdf: Letter to Vu including Exh. 1 regarding Early VBM discrepancies * 1_Manual_Tally_Summary_Report_June_2016_ San...
From the section "FORENSIC EVIDENCE" on page 198 WHY THE BALLOTS WERE NOT COUNTED August 6, 2006 Revised During the summer of 2006 we photographed all the regular...
An election integrity activist has launched a campaign to personally recount votes from last year’s presidential primary in San Diego County. Ray Lutz, the founde...
* Link to the Bill as amended: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB840 ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT * Signed into law by...
* Archived at this link: https://citizensoversightinc.sharefile.com/d sae181145b8547599 * Newsmaker RayLutz AB_840_Election_Integrity.mp3: Audio Interview of R...
We suspect possible tampering of the Early VBM ballots in the 2016 Primary election the only ballots where Clinton won over Sanders. All other ballot categories...
Note: Although hearing time is 1:30pm, the actual time this case will be heard is not exactly known, and will likely be after many other cases are processed. The ...
Also can use this on line programmatic tool to provide the number of ballots to access: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Java/Html/ballotPollTools.htm * ev...
* 2017 01 31_We_Won_Press_Conference.pdf: Press Release We Won! Election Audit Lawsuit in San Diego CommonCalendar Entry * 31 Jan 2017 We Won! Press Confe...
Most of these cases were harvested from the California Association of Clerks and Elections Officials (CACEO) website. They were renamed with standard date prefix ...
By PAUL LEHTO The purpose of elections is freely choosing our public servants by majority rule elections. The essence of America is self government, recognizing ...
* 2018 05 07 LetterToVu.pdf: Letter to Michael Vu Regarding 2018 Election Season Oversight * 2017 03 20 LetterToVuOnVBMManualTallyDiscrepancies_Rev2.pdf: Se...
After the 2016 Primary election, a contest was filed. Also, we had another case in process, the ElectionAuditLawsuit. We tried to get to the ballots using the CPR...
Election Audits: Our best tool (at the present time) to improve election integrity Imagine if run a company of professional drivers, and their vehicles are equipp...
2018 Primary random selection meeting in San Diego. This is a critical meeting which should be video recorded if possible so others can review and analyze their p...
Email letter to Tommy Gong To: tgong #64;co.slo.ca.us From: Ray Lutz Subject: Follow up from Random Draw meeting. Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:14:41 0700 Dear ...
* 2018 06 22 PrRel Complaint to SOS re Vu.pdf: Press Release: Formal Complaint Submitted to CA Secy of State to Investigate Malconduct by Michael Vu, San Diego Co...
CommonCalendar Entry * 03 Jul 2018 Meeting with Rep. Susan Davis at RepDavisOffice, 2700 Adams Avenue, Suite 102, San Diego, CA 92116 (1:30 pm) Details ...
Citizens Oversight will be announcing the filing of a petition to the California Supreme Court to review the appeal of the our favorable judgment regarding electi...
Judge says county must change vote counting procedures in future elections Ray Lutz, the national coordinator of Citizens’ Oversight, at his El Cajon home. (K.C. ...
A key element of defending our democracy is ensuring elections that are fair and free of scams. There are many dimensions of this problem. You may have heard a lo...
* More information about our auditing strategy: SnapshotProtocol * Image I used in the video: This graphic does not describe a key step which is to obse...
Election Audits: Our best tool (at the present time) to improve election integrity Imagine if run a company of professional drivers, and their vehicles are equipp...
* Oct 31 Update https://www.facebook.com/raylutz/videos/10216569398254889/ Learned that in person voting at the ROV are handled just like VBM ballots. ...
A special prosecutor ended a two year drive to convict two county elections workers for rigging a ballot recount during the hotly contested 2004 presidential elec...
email to Tim Canova and others on 2019 02 07 I am definitely a supporter of hand marked paper ballots, but not to require that only hand counts be used. I am wor...
Recently, I have read a number of documents that claim to have detected likely fraud in an election because the results did not comply with the "law of large numb...
* 2019 03 17 (M1893) Letter to LA ROV requesting Batch report As if 2019 05 22, no response has been received for this request. Sent followup letter as 60 days ha...
* 2019 04 05 (M1899) Letter to SD ROV requesting party affiliation breakdown by precinct.pdf: 2019 04 05 (M1899) Letter to SD ROV requesting party affiliation bre...
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiPNo2Rn2TU Ray Lutz, Eve Lee, Josephine Piarulli, Patricia Gracian, and Madge Torres speak before the San Diego City Cou...
Notes * Here, the tally team is finishing up a single precinct they started the day before. * At offset 20min, they complete the reading and tallying part, an...
* Democracy Lost A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries (First Draft).pdf: Democracy Lost A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Pri...
Note: This analysis considers the risk factors to allow RLA audits to be compared with Ballot image audits. There are many other risks, such as due to improper el...
General Ballots are desiged by election systems to be compatible with (usually) fairly simplistic optical scanning system (very few detectors. The database of ele...
* 8 14 19 John Marion presentation to RIBOE Board.mp3: Audio Recording of Rhode Island BOE, RLA Pilot Report Presentation (John Marion) * Pilot Implementation ...
Hart Verity Voting System Demo * https://www.hartintercivic.com/# * Hart uses a consistent platform. * Bar codes on the ballots do not encode voter selec...
Clear Vote Solution * https://clearballot.com/solutions * Clear ballot voting systems uses the same ballot format for ADA as not. * They use gray scale i...
Slides of this presentation * 2019 10 06 Presentation at NVRTF on RLAs and BIAs.pdf: 2019 10 06 Presentation at NVRTF on RLAs and BIAs.pdf Press Release * ...
Elections: Stop Scams with Oversight and Audits If we can’t trust our elections, then all bets are off on progressive change. Now, we have only three privately he...
Status * Submitted to the NIST Election Cybersecurity working group on 2019 11 24 * Proposed strategy for progressing: Break into three parts: * Securin...
To comment on this document, Add your comments to the Goggle Doc at this link. * Four Fatal Flaws of RLA Audits (M1938 2019 12 10).pdf: Checkpoint sent to the ...
FOR POLL TAPES PROJECT: Please see the last section that describes a spreadsheet format for your results. 1 Make sure that if you are taking photos or videos, ...
THIS DOCUMENT IS A DRAFT WHICH IS STILL ACTIVELY BEING IMPROVED. Your input is appreciated but realize that the format is still being resolved. Click here to comm...
Contracts For those who want to get into the weeds ... LA County Contract w/IDEO for design and consultation on new voting system (approved Oct. 21, 2014) https...
Summary On March 21, we sent out a Public Records Request (PRR) by email and followed up with hardcopy certified letter to the top 24 counties in the state of Cal...
THE REQUEST Issue an executive order and pursue legislation so that 1. Election Audits include all, or nearly all vote by mail ballots. 2. Ballot Images and...
WASHINGTON POST Reporting from RALEIGH, N.C. — State election officials said a political operative for Republican Mark Harris orchestrated a complex scheme to il...
NOTE: This is a good example when ballot images could be very helpful in settling whether the ballots were altered to try to put the contest into a most of drawin...
I am a bit bothered by the idea that this person was fired, but did not follow it up with a false termination case, if indeed it was an illegitimate firing. She m...
GEORGIA: SAVE AND SECURE THE BALLOT IMAGES Ballot images can thwart changes to paper ballots or magically losing or finding new ballots in the recount. Citizens...
The "biblical" lawsuit by Sidney Powell in GA. https://defendingtherepublic.org/wp content/uploads/2020/11/COMPLAINT CJ PEARSON V. KEMP 11.25.2020.pdf Claims in s...
Now, here is a complaint re: Michigan. I created a webpage for this to allow sharing. https://copswiki.org/Common/M1963 (This one has a lot of similar language a...
This letter was sent by email, fax, and certified mail on 4/8/2021, with certified mail to be sent on 4/9/2021 Later, it was discovered that the email was incorre...
* COURT ORDER TO HONOR SENATE SUBPOENAS_m9467954.pdf: Court Order to Honor Subpoenas by AZ State Senate * Document Cache: https://statecraftlaw.app.box.com/v/S...
* This is described in recent zoom meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHyUp_o1fB0 * Googledoc of Election Hazards for comment: https://docs.google.com/do...
* Click for googledoc: Click Here to add comments * 2022 05 27 COPS Letter to Clackamas County OR.pdf: 2022 05 27 COPS Letter to Clackamas County OR.pdf
In this video, I provide a review of the !"ElectionGuard" E2E voting system. https://www.facebook.com/raylutz/videos/10218181507276607 BTW, I also reviewed the co...
* Voting on Thin Ice 121917.pdf: Research on election issues in Shelby County TN * Voting on thin ice (Mike Kernell) * Aug 2, 2012 elections, thousands o...
Inside the Turmoil at the Agency Running Ranked Choice Voting The New York City Board of Elections, which has a history of mishaps, is now under intense fire for ...
* Letter to CO SOS Jena Griswold re_ Arvada Mayors Contest.pdf: Letter to CO SOS Jena Griswold re_ Arvada Mayors Contest.pdf * https://docs.google.com/documen...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BPv58LNAtlNeMKXYnohmAG3j77ZOVfxbu9NJyoSC_O0/edit?usp=sharing * GA Ballot Image Audits including OCR of BMD ballots in light o...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW5Vvv6vtVc In addition to this, we later learned that some researchers found that the map, supposedly was of Atlanta, was actuall...
I frequently see people trying to use the Cast Vote Records (CVR) to analyze the election results, particularly with regard to "The Rule of Large Numbers" i.e. th...
Dallas, TX produced a remarkably complete set of data for the March 2024 primary election. This was a new step for Dallas, and it was the first such large publica...
San Francisco has been a leader in providing complete information of recent elections, including ballot images, cast vote records, etc. Main site: * https://w...
Dane County has been publishing ballot images and cast vote records since about 2016. However, this page only provides the past few years. https://elections.count...
* 2024 09 05 M2023 Letter to Biden and Garland.pdf: Letter to President Biden and AG Garland re election data retention and publication Concerned Citizens Urge P...
Email sent to GA State Election Board Dear John Fervier and GA State Election Board: Please submit this comment to the Board for consideration. There is a lot of ...
Email to GA State Election Board Dear John Fervier and GA State Election Board: Please submit this comment to the Board for consideration. There is a lot of news ...
Abstract: We developed a 2022 audit primary and a general election data dashboard that includes images of the ballots voted in Leon County. These data are embedde...
Jump to the letter: * PDF: Request for DOJ Investigation into the Integrity of the 2024 Presidential Election.pdf * Googledoc Press Release CALL FOR DOJ ...
* Clark County Inquiry Regarding 2024 Election Data and Audits.pdf: Clark County Inquiry Regarding 2024 Election Data and Audits.pdf * Googledoc: https://docs....
There are three parts to this video Part 1 http://youtu.be/DEWY5k4UTRo (1hr 23min) Part 2 http://youtu.be/huHUvsH2kSQ (1hr 28 min) Part 3 http://youtu.be/HPZ...
The Vote Count Potrero Recall Election December 11, 2007. A group of about 20 people observed the election. They signed us in, had us agree to a sheet of rule...
By Miriam Raftery The East County Californian May 24, 2007 Citizens sounded off in public comment and rallied outside the County Board of Supervisors meeting Tue...
Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified touch screen Diebold voting machines and told San Diego County to use paper ballots. But guess what? They are using Die...
By Miriam Raftery The East County Californian May 31, 2007 California #8217;s Secretary of State is hot on the trail of alleged election law violations by San D...
Lutz for Assembly http://www.LutzForAssembly.com http://www.StopBlackwater.net http://www.CitizensOversight.org CONTACT: Raymond Lutz, State Assembly Candidate, 7...
The Open Canvass Method eliminates most hacking opportunites in our election system, does not need certification, does not care about proprietary or closed source...
Ever want to call for an election recount? Well, the Humboldt County Elections Office might soon give you the chance to do just that, and more. The Humboldt Tran...
The Hidden Campaign Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes By Mary Pat Flaherty A voting system used in 34 states contains a critica...
Some votes miscounted in primary, officials say By Luis Monteagudo Jr. and Helen Gao UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 8, 2004 County officials said yesterday t...
* OrVRC_Presentation.pps: Oregon Voter Rights Coalition "The Illusion of Democracy" (If you don't have a powerpoint viewer, you can download one Here...)
LUTZ: Thank you very much for listening to me. My name is Ray Lutz. I am the founder of Citizens Oversight Projects, and I happen to also be a candidate for the 7...
* C00015_SoS_Request_For_Support_For_Statement_of_Votes_cast2008 10 08_wattachment.pdf: Request that the Secretary of State support our request for the Scanner ta...
Supporting Open Source Software for Electronic Voting MachinesResolution Number SAC07.12 WHEREAS, public confidence in the integrity of the election system in the...
Protecting Election IntegrityResolution Number MAN06.05 WHEREAS: There are serious questions about the security of electronic voting machines, and insecure and u...
* rovmanualtallyreportforjune2008.pdf: Manual Tally Report for 6/3/2008 Election We must note that this document says "Intradepartment draft" and not final releas...
After this video, the Registrar of Voters Deborah Seilers declined to allow us to film any further meetings, so we resorted to written interaction. Transcript o...
* ManualTallyResultsSpreadsheetFinal11 4 08.pdf: Manual tally results for Nov 4, 2008 election shows significant error rate. * Of the original 17 precincts sam...
Original source: http://fairvote.org/sos/Democracy%20SOS%20 %20National%20Edition_10 27_FINAL.pdf * The first question: what voting equipment is used in the co...
By Matthew Haggman05 13 2004 A scathing internal review of the iVotronic touch screen voting machines used in Miami Dade and Broward, Fla., counties, written by a...
* Original Source: http://www.eac.gov/files/Eds2006/eds2006/edsr final adopted version.pdf * edsr final adopted version2006.pdf: The 2006 Election Administrati...
* 11 Nov 2007 (13) CurrentEventsTheater, American Blackout, RanchoSanDiegoLibrary (1:00pm)Video will start promptly at 2pm; Reviews election irregularities in t...
http://www.uncountedthemovie.com/ * 24 Feb 2008 (15) CurrentEventsTheater, Uncounted, RanchoSanDiegoLibrary (1:30pm)Video will start promptly at 2pm; How our e...
* 24 Aug 2008 (21) CurrentEventsTheater, Recount, RanchoSanDiegoLibrary (1:30pm)Video will start promptly at 2pm;"Recount" the powerful drama based on the event...
Mishaps run deeper than new machines Poll workers, voters cite tied up hotline, poor training, confusion By Jeff McDonald and Luis Monteagudo Jr. UNION TRIBUNE...
* See Request: Request C00017 Here is the email received regarding this request: Dear Mr. Lutz, Attached is the Registrar of Voters’ response to your letter of De...
This page is harvested using an outside application. * Last harvest: 2017 02 18 * This version does NOT contain all provisions in the election code. * Ha...
Vote probe raises fears over 'fix' '06 Pima County result, electronic system in question by Dennis Wagner Apr. 15, 2009 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic Under the...
There are three documents in this set. We got slow response from the RoV and so we sent a request for response and also an abbreviated version to make it easier f...
* 20.8_2008 11 04_Tally_Center_Logs.pdf: Collection Center Logs (4.89 MB, 147 pages) The file above contains log sheets with the following columns: * Wrong Sea...
This procedure is specified in California Elections Code 2007 Article 5. One Percent Manual Tally Section 15360, Manual Tally when using a voting system. 15360. ...
There are a collection of documents with various revision dates on this page maintained by the SecretaryOfStateCA. http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vsr.h...
CLEVELAND The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections on Tuesday announced that it has accepted the resignation of its embattled chief. Executive director Michael Vu's...
SAN DIEGO San Diego County officials said Wednesday that they had hired former Cuyahoga County, Ohio elections Chief Michael Vu as assistant registrar of voters...
Ohio Election Workers Convicted of Manipulating 2004 U.S. Presidential Recount International Herald Tribune / AP 24jan2007 Jacqueline Maiden, center, stands w...
Important Definitions * Error a generic term to encompass all those occasions in which a planned sequence of mental or physical activities fails to achieve i...
2009 09 03: Good morning, Mr. Lutz. We have reviewed your request for information and we will respond. With respect to the first question regarding the ...
MainProjectList NOTE: Creating project list for WebLeftBar is too compute intensive to do the search each time. Therefore, this topic should be re edited each tim...
ManagingListEmail Related: ListServe, PostingEtiquette Managing your subscription Since we tend to use "Mailman" email lists, they are easy to perform basic mana...
Latest News Request for information and public records sent to the Registrar of Voters on November 20, 2008. * SanDiegoCountyCanvassProcedure An attempt to...
The 1% manual tally in San Diego: (click image for full size) This procedure is concerning oversight of the Manual Tally itself. Prior to this procedure, please s...
Cuyahoga BOE Executive Director Michael Vu was chosen by the county Democratic Party. Under Vu's direction, the county's elections have been rife with chaos, irre...
This page is under construction! We have many photos, videos, etc. that still need to be processed. In December 2016, a historic state wide recount was started re...
White Paper Read the white paper: * Open Ballot Initiative White Paper, Updated 2017 01 10 Introduction The Open Ballot Initiative (TOBI) is proposed to ret...
Summary On this page, we will be collecting links to relevant information to assist in the audits of the 2020 General Election using Audit Engine or other methods...
Welcome! Citizens' Oversight Projects is developing a network of citizens who can help us provide oversight of our rigged and hacked elections! We need your help ...
Polling Place Oversight Rules vary by state * Consider being a poll worker. You will receive training and be able to make sure at least one polling place is ...
Polling locations could affect the outcome of close elections because different settings, such as schools and churches, could encourage people to think favorably ...
Precinct Rosters in boxes. Note pages bound with circular clips are for a single precinct consolidation.There are about 20 precincts in each box. PrecinctRost...
See Also DieboldSystems. The elections equipment section of DieboldSystems was split off into this company so Diebold, noted for banking and security products, co...
ProjectListGrouped Infrastructure Projects related to how we manage projects and support information. * COPsProgram Parent project to all COPs projects...
Summary of articles submitted (Add All) ORIGINS OF PSEPHOS Psephos, inspired by the traditions of democracy, is an emerging nonprofit committed to preventing th...
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RaymondLutz Explains: Open Canvass Overview Narration Ray Lutz % AUDIOMEDIA{"http://www.copswiki.org/w/pub/Common/OpenCanvassOverview/OpenCanvassOverviewNarrati...
San Diego random draw in 2014 election using ping pong balls drawn from bins by a member of our oversight team.: (Click Image for full size) The "Random Draw" is ...
* See also: Main.RaymondLutz in the Main Web. * National Coordinator, Founder, Citizens' Oversight Projects: https://www.citizensoversight.org * Lead Develo...
RequestingInformationProcedure This is a general procedure for requesting information from governmental officials and more specifically, from elections officials....
ResolutionBanningPrivatizedVoting I #8217;ve had people ask #8220;what #8217;s Deborah Bowen #8217;s position on this? #8221; She #8217;s taking enough heat righ...
Latest News COPs has published a report on the activities of the San Diego County RegistrarOfVoters and has published an extensive report, which can be found here...
www.sandiego.gov/electionstaskforce , which contains a link to the reports which came out of that entity. There were several, including one specific to mail onl...
This web page is the repository for documents and information regarding the petition to CONTEST the 2016 Primary regarding the presidential race in San Diego Coun...
Latest News * Registrar of Voters says they don't need to create additional copies of the scanner tapes because the machines are not the "lever type" * Secr...
To file a complaint: Complaint Form http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/fraud complaints/pdfs/english voter fraud complaint form.pdf Or create a letter of your own ...
Tutorial This is the best tutorial so far of this process. HISTORY OF ACTIONS: * June 2016 Sent letters to all 58 counties with some refinements from the pr...
Here are my notes regarding the trip to Florida in 2016 just after the election. (Still have many pictures and videos to add to the website.) Sarasota County Ele...
State Democratic E Board Meeting 2007 07 14 ProgressiveCaucus The progressive caucus is very popular, and was overflowing with attendees, perhaps about 300. They...
StateElectionDistrictTargetingProcedure This procedure determines election district targets and evaluates past audit compliance. In the following procedure, repla...
Here, we compare The OpenBallotInitiative (TOBI) with a commonly promoted approach, All Hand Counted Paper Ballots (AHCPB) in the precinct. In a nutshell: * B...
* Final TGDC VVSG 08312007.pdf: Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines Intro Chapter 1 * Authored by: The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), a c...
Sub projects Latest News Background Signature Verification Issues The following comments were copied in from the ElectionIntegrityList from July 8, 2020 Peter...
VoterRegistration This topic is intended to collect our knowledge about our local voter registration effort. See also: Common.StudentOutreach This Activity is V...
Sub projects Latest News This project relates to the issue of Voting Privacy, while also encouraging transparency of the results so the public can easily check t...
VotingSystems Status as of 2014. The following table was extracted from http://www.sos.ca.gov/voting systems/oversight/county vsys/vot sys by counties 2012 11 6.p...
This web site is dedicated to enabling citizens to provide needed oversight to our democracy. At present, Citizens Oversight is focused only on deploying AuditEng...
WELCOME! Everyone can agree on this: In a democracy, you must have election integrity, or you may be spinning your wheels. We can't trust elected officials to do ...