Election Oversight Team

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Latest News

• M1672 2016-08-10 Citizens' Oversight -- Election Team Conference Call 2016-08-10 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1674 2016-08-18 Election Oversight Team Conference Call of 2016-08-18 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1677 2016-08-25 2016 08 25 Election Team Conference Call -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1685 2016-08-28 2016 08 28 -- Emergency Conference Call on FL and AZ Primaries -- RayLutz CitizensOversight

ElectionOversightProcedures

• Common.WelcomeElectionOversightNewbies %ISNEW% -- A starting point for new arrivals to our election oversight project
• Common.StateElectionDistrictTargetingProcedure %ISNEW% -- Decide which counties are most important using Pareto (80/20) principles and locate recent audit documents.
• Common.RequestingInformationProcedure %ISNEW% -- How to request information from elections officials.
• Common.ReportingIssues %ISNEW% -- Report issues to COPS and/or to govt officials.

• Common.PollingPlaceOversight %ISNEW% -- Tips for providing oversight at polling places
  • Common.PrecinctRosterReview %ISNEW% -- This review is conducted after the election when the voter rosters become available.

• Election Office Oversight
  • Common.EarlyVotingOversight %ISNEW% -- What to do during early voting processing
  • Common.ProvisionalOversight %ISNEW% -- How to perform oversight over provisional ballot review.

• Election Audit Oversight
  • Common.SnapshotNotificationPhase %ISNEW% -- Details how to notify elections officials in the target district.
  • Common.ElectionAuditBestPractices %ISNEW% -- Audits must be conducted according to specific criteria to be considered "clean"
  • Common.RandomDrawOversight %ISNEW% -- What to do during the Random Draw, including getting the Snapshot file prior to the draw.
  • Common.ManualTallyOversight %ISNEW% -- What do do during the manual tally phase, including review of manual tally reports.

• Common.OversightSuggestionsInArizonaAndFlorida -- Specific suggestions for volunteers who are providing oversight to Florida and Arizona in the 2016-08-30 Primary
• Common.ElectionOversightFlorida2016November -- Florida is a battleground state and here is specific information for volunteers in that state.

We will be improving the procedures listed above as we generalize them for the situations across the country.

Audit Database

We are building a database of audits from the districts of interest here: Elections Web

Detailed review of San Diego County in 2008

In 2008, Citizens Oversight conducted extensive review of the elections processing in San Diego County. Those data can be reviewed here: Cops Web We will likely be moving this to the Elections Web as that makes more sense.

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• M1965 2020-12-22 Audits in 2020 General Election -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• CitizensOversightStatusUpdate2019 2020-04-13 Citizens Oversight Status Update 2019 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1938 2019-11-30 The Four Fatal Flaws of RLA Audits -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1931 2019-11-04 Earth Summit Presentation: Elections: Stop Scams with Oversight and Audits -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1923 2019-09-13 ES&S Voting Machine Equipment Demo -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1924 2019-09-13 Hart Voting System Equipment Demo -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1925 2019-09-13 Clear Ballot Voting System Demonstration -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1899 2019-04-05 Letter to SDROV requesting party affiliation breakdown by precinct for years 2012-2018 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1896 2019-03-26 Letter to San Diego BOS on Election Integrity for 2019-03-26 meeting -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1893 2019-03-17 Letter to LA ROV requesting Batch Report for Nov 2018 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1894 2019-03-17 2019-03-17 (M1894) Letter to SD ROV requesting Batch report -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1895 2019-03-17 Letter to OC ROV requesting Ballot Images -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1892 2019-03-10 Election Integrity Update -- Ray Lutz -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• CitizensOversightStatusUpdate2018 2019-02-09 Citizens Oversight Status Update 2018 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1882 2018-10-31 How to vote so your vote is counted -- Esp. in San Diego -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1881 2018-10-25 Oversight of November 2018 General Election -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1880 2018-10-21 Ray Lutz explains the best ways to vote to be counted and how to help with oversight -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1879 2018-09-10 White Paper: Election Audit Strategy and BRAWL -- Balanced Risk Audit with Workload Limitation -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• ElectionOversightFlorida2018August 2018-08-19 Election Oversight - Florida 2018 August -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1868 2018-08-01 Election Audit Fraud Supreme Court Petition - Conf / Livestream -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1860 2018-06-22 Formal Complaint Submitted to CA Secy of State to Investigate Malconduct by Michael Vu, San Diego County Registrar of Voters -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1859 2018-06-14 Random Draw in SF, 2018-06 -- SFElections
• M1856 2018-06-13 Ray Lutz interviews Raji Rab on LA Election Irregularities -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1858 2018-06-11 San Luis Obispo Bars camera from Public Random Draw -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1843 2018-06-07 Court Hearing on 2016 Primary Contest - Motion to dismiss by County -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1853 2018-06-06 2018-06-06 Random Selection for San Diego County, 2018 Primary -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1850 2018-06-02 2018-06-02 Election Team Orientation -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1849 2018-06-01 2018-06-01 COPS visits San Diego County Registrar -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1851 2018-06-01 Election Audit Oversight for 2018 Primary Season -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1840 2018-05-07 Letter to Michael Vu regarding 2018 election season and oversight -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1835 2018-03-20 Ray Lutz appears on Real Progressives Roundtable -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1830 2018-03-07 Election Integrity Update -- Ray Lutz on Facebook live -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1825 2018-02-15 CA Election Code and CCR on Recounts and Contests --
• CitizensOversightStatusUpdate2017 2017-12-20 Citizens Oversight Status Update 2017 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1847 2017-10-16 AB-840 Elections: vote by mail and provisional ballots.(2017-2018) -- AssemblymemberBillQuirk CaliforniaLegislature
• M1793 2017-10-13 Court Hearing to Access Ballots in 2016 Primary -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• VoterRegistrationFactsByState 2017-10-06 Voter Registration Facts by State -- Susan Schneider CitizensOversight
• M1785 2017-08-31 Citizens Oversight OPPOSES AB-840, the bill to gut CA election audits -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1782 2017-07-30 Man sues county so he can personally recount last year's election votes -- JoshuaStewart UnionTribune
• M1781 2017-07-28 Press Conf: Lawsuit Filed to Allow Ballot Review -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1746 2017-03-27 Snapshot Protocol Tutorial for Los Angeles 2017-04 election -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1735 2017-03-19 Early VBM Discrepancies in San Diego 2016 Primary -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• SanDiegoPrimaryContest2016 2017-02-02 San Diego Primary Contest 2016 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1728 2017-01-05 Election Team Conference Call of 2017-01-05 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• CitizensOversightStatusUpdate2016 2016-12-30 Citizens Oversight Status Update 2016 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• MichiganRecount2016 2016-12-09 Tour of Michigan Recount 2016 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1721 2016-11-23 CA_SantaClara Manual Tally Nov 2016 -- Lise Rehbock CitizensOversight
• M1720 2016-11-22 Tour of Socal Manual Tally Operations -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1717 2016-11-18 CA_Alameda County Random Draw, Nov 2016 -- Lise Rehbock CitizensOversight
• M1719 2016-11-18 FL_PalmBeach Manual Audit -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1715 2016-11-15 CA_San Diego Nov 2016 Manual Tally -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1716 2016-11-15 CA_Sacramento Nov 2016 Manual Tally -- CitizensOversight
• SnapshotProtocolFlorida2016Nov 2016-11-14 Snapshot Protocol Trip to Florida 2016 Nov -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1713 2016-11-13 Election Team Conference Call of 2016-11-13 from Sarasota FL -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1712 2016-11-10 CA_Riverside Nov 2016 Manual Tally -- Anna Mc Naughton CitizensOversight
• ManualTallyOversight 2016-11-07 Manual Tally Oversight Procedure -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• PollingPlaceOversight 2016-11-07 Polling Place Oversight Procedure -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• RandomDrawOversight 2016-11-07 Random Draw Oversight Procedure -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• ElectionOversightFlorida2016November 2016-11-06 Election Oversight - Florida 2016 November -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1709 2016-11-02 Visit to Orange County ROV during early VBM processing -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1707 2016-10-30 20161030 - Election team Orientation -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1706 2016-10-22 20161022 - COPs Party 2016 Presentation -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1710 2016-10-17 Experts: State should audit election results -- Michael Gerstein Detroit News
• M1703 2016-10-03 2016 10 03 Pre-trial Election Lawsuit Press Conference -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1696 2016-09-09 Citrus County Random Selection and Audit Process -- Main.Margaret Carlock CitizensOversight
• M1693 2016-09-06 CPRA -- Procedures of San Diego Registrar of Voters (2016) -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1694 2016-09-06 Broward County Audit for 2016-08-30 Primary -- Diane Padro CitizensOversight
• M1692 2016-09-05 Florida Team Web Meeting of 2016-09-05 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1690 2016-09-04 Election Team Email of 2016-09-04 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1691 2016-09-04 Florida Manual Audit Election Code 101.591 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1688 2016-09-01 Recount ordered in Rouson-Narain race -- Jeremy Wallace Tampa Bay Times
• M1689 2016-09-01 Marion County, Florida choosing random race and precincts for tally of 2016-08-30 primary -- Margaret Carlock CitizensOversight
• WelcomeElectionOversightNewbies 2016-08-31 Welcome Election Oversight Newbies -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1684 2016-08-30 Citizens' Oversight: Election Scrutiny Extended to Florida and Arizona Primary Elections -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• OversightSuggestionsInArizonaAndFlorida 2016-08-29 Oversight Suggestions In Arizona and Florida for 2016-08 Primary -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• ProvisionalOversight 2016-08-29 Provisional Ballot Processing Oversight -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1685 2016-08-28 2016 08 28 -- Emergency Conference Call on FL and AZ Primaries -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1677 2016-08-25 2016 08 25 Election Team Conference Call -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1679 2016-08-23 Election lawsuit on track for October trial -- Plaintiffs want registrar to count provisional ballots in quality control audit -- JoshuaStewart UnionTribune
• M1675 2016-08-21 Election Lawsuit Overview and Status on Aug 21, 2016 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1682 2016-08-21 Tutorial -- Add an audit to Election audit database -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1673 2016-08-18 Roster Review Procedure Tutorial -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1674 2016-08-18 Election Oversight Team Conference Call of 2016-08-18 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• ElectionOversightProcedures 2016-08-10 Election Oversight Procedures -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1672 2016-08-10 Citizens' Oversight -- Election Team Conference Call 2016-08-10 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• ElectionAuditBestPractices 2016-08-08 Election Audit Best Practices -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• RequestingInformationProcedure 2016-08-08 Requesting Information Procedure -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• StateElectionDistrictTargetingProcedure 2016-08-08 State Election District Targeting Procedure -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1700 2016-08-02 20160721 Snapshot Protocol Tutorial -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1699 2016-07-21 Snapshot Protocol Tutorial -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1697 2016-07-11 Contesting the Election Press Conference 2016-07-11 -- Ray Lutz, Bill Simpich CitizensOversight
• M1711 2016 Michigan Election Audit Documents -- Michigan State Bureau of Elections
• M1686 2010-08-30 Maricopa County AZ Precinct Selection Meeting for Aug 2010 Election -- JohnBrakey AuditAZ
• M1729 2008-09 Principles and Best Practices for Post-Election Audits -- electionaudits.org
• M1683 2008 Procedures for California's 1% Manual Tally -- Joseph Hall UCBerkeley
• M43 2007-05-24 Is the fix in? County administrator questioned on new hires -- MiriamRaftery EastCountyCalifornian

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