Oversight Suggestions In Arizona and Florida for 2016-08 Primary

CitizensOversight (2016-08-29) RayLutz

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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 in the Florida and Arizona primaries in August, 2016.

Here are specific suggestions for volunteers who are providing oversight to Florida and Arizona in the 2016-08-30 Primary

County Targets

We are looking for support in the top counties in Florida and at least two counties in Arizona.

FLORIDA

Since we have limited resources, we are targeting the most important districts according to the "Pareto Principle" (AKA 80/20 rule). Actually, we will target first the top 20% and then the top 40% of counties.

The top counties (shown in red) are (in order of importance): 1. Miami-Dade 1. Broward 1. Palm Beach 1. Hillsborough 1. Orange 1. Pinellas 1. Duval 1. Lee 1. Brevard 1. Polk 1. Volusia 1. Pasco 1. Sarasota These alone comprise about 66% of the voters in the state.

If we include the next top 20% (shown in Blue), we include: Seminole, Marion, Manatee, Lake, Escambia, Collier, Leon, St. Lucie, Osceola, St. Johns, Alachua, Clay, Okaloosa, and Hernando. These altogether comprise about 88% of the voters in the state. There are another 40 counties in the state but these are only 12% of the vote. Certainly, if you also want to provide oversight to your home county not in this list, then by all means do so. But we really desperately need to deal with those at the top of the list. 27% of the voters are in the top three counties alone, Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach.

We decided to include two more counties to the top 13, to round it out to 15 counties which comprises 71% of the electorate. That means we added Seminole and Marion to our first set.

Bottomline: we need boots-on-the-ground help in Florida.

ARIZONA

Arizona is not one of our targeted states. However, it has several districts that do rate in our top 175 target districts (which comprise 50% of the electorate). In fact, after Los Angeles County, MARICOPA COUNTY (Phoenix area) has the second highest number of voters in the nation. PIMA COUNTY (Tucson Area) is number 50 in the nation. In our view, these are the only counties we will focus on in Arizona, as those two counties alone comprise about 75% of the electorate in the state.

Audits in these states.

These states are similar in how the do their election audits. They are minimal in power but are not worthless, especially to discourage hackers and fraudsters from even trying, if they know they might be caught. In Florida, they are supposed to chose one random race and one random precinct. You can't do any less than that, so it isn't any sort of high-powered audit they are using.

Canvassing Schedule for August 30 Primary Election

Here is the schedule as known today. If you do not see the schedule for the audit selection and manual audit, perhaps you can help us find this information when it becomes available. We will be updating this page as new information becomes available, so check back occasionally.

Florida

*SAVE DEMOCRACY IN 5 MINUTES*
PLEASE ATTEND AND VIDEO RECORD THE ELECTION AUDIT
SELECTION MEETINGS HIGHLIGHTED BELOW!

More info: copswiki.org/Common/OversightSuggestionsInArizonaAndFlorida
These meetings are very short but it is critical that we record them because otherwise
Election officials can rig the elections. PLEASE HELP!
NOTE: Please check with election office before to find out if selection meeting will be held. Recounts may eliminate the manual tally procedure. See the following:

• M1688 2016-09-01 Recount ordered in Rouson-Narain race -- Jeremy Wallace Tampa Bay Times

These are the counties I've been able to identify that have announced recounts. Audits will not happen in: Marion, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Brevard
*CORRECTION: WE NOTICED THAT SOME OF THESE ARE "MACHINE RECOUNTS" THAT DO NOT QUALIFY AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE MANUAL AUDIT*
See Marion Random Draw for details.

Arizona

What we want you to do

There may be other things you can see at your elections office, so try to be ultra aware of what is going on. Use your photo or video camera as much as you can. But we have some very specific tasks.

1. Provisional screening -- Spend some time watching the screening of provisional ballots. Normally, only the signature should be compared, not the address. This happens prior to the certified results.
2. Snapshot File -- Prior to the Audit Selection meeting, find and download the results of the election. We call this the [[SnapShotProtocol][Snap Shot]]file. In Florida, these are the certified results. Other areas may call these the unofficial results. We need the results separated out by PRECINCT, RACE, and BALLOT TYPE. Best to get all forms available. Sometimes only PDF but CSV file is sometimes easier to load into a spreadsheet or open with a program.
   • Please email these to info@citizensoversight.org or at least let us know you have it and we can give you instructions to get it to us. We want to archive these on our website.
3. Audit Selection Meeting -- Attend the Audit Selection meeting and VIDEO RECORD the entire meeting. (see [[M801]]for some tips -- Nowadays, you can just use your cell phone, but it may be a long meeting, so a tripod and a little cell-phone clamp may be needed. )
   • We want to make sure they are picking both the race and precinctAT RANDOM so it is a complete surprise to them.
   • If they choose these by numbers, those must be assigned and available in lists BEFORE the selection.
   • Please send us the video or upload to YouTube or another service and give us the link.
   • If they say you can't record the meeting, stand your ground! Of course you can!
   • This is a public meeting, not one processing the ballots. You have the right to record these meetings as long as you are not disruptive. We have had to have some confrontation in the past over this point. Be sure to bring the text of the actual law in your state. If they persist, ask them to explain what they are afraid of, and tell them your recording is for educational purposes.
   • We sent an email to all the counties we mentioned (top 15 in FL, top 2 in AZ), shown below.
   • Florida Recording Law: http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/florida-recording-law
   • QUOTE: If you attend a public meeting (i.e., a meeting of a governmental body required to be open to the public by law) in Florida, generally you are permitted to use sound or video recording devices, so long as your recording does not disrupt the meeting.
   • Arizona Recording Law: http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/arizona-recording-law
   • QUOTE: Arizona's open meetings law provides that "[a]ll or any part of a public meeting of a public body may be recorded by any person in attendance by means of a tape recorder or camera or any other means of sonic reproduction, provided that there is no active interference with the conduct of the meeting." A.R.S. § 38-431.01(F).
   • Take a snapshot with your camera of the selected numbers.
   • If they do not allow you to record the meeting, despite your most assertive objection, then please document the situation, (video record it if possible, or secondly, audio record it).
   • Arrange to have another person who will simply attend if you plan to stand your ground and take the recording at the risk of arrest.
   • Being arrested for trying to record an election audit meeting will be a huge feather in your hat and will allow the issue to be settled in a court of law. We are supposed to have first amendment rights!
4. Watch the Manual Tally procedure.You must be able to get close enough to see the ballots and confirm they talliers are marking it correctly.
   • Most important is the end of the process to see what they do if there is a difference.
   • Talliers should NOT know the official results before they start, but if they checked the file we downloaded, they would know, so this is a bit of a defect in the process.
   • Some counties let us record the general situation in the room as long as we make it clear the camera will not focus on individual ballots (although with no identifying marks on the ballots, it makes no sense to worry about that but they are over the top on establishing control.) The only time it is a genuine concern is if you can both identify the voter and see the ballot such as when provisionals and VBM ballots are processed. That is a crime, so you don't want to try to do that and generally be willing to cooperate. Bottom line is that you can try to record it but if you can't get it, it is not as important as the SNAPSHOT file and the SELECTION PROCESS.

An example

Here is a sample video we made of the selection process in San Diego. San Diego only selects PRECINCTS and not RACES because CA law requires that all races be audited. In this video, we also notice that they chose too few VBM "batches" and this led to our lawsuit.

• M1662 2016-06-08 San Diego County Manual Tally selection meeting, June 8, 2016 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight

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• Sign up here: http://citizensoversight.org/signup

Email to Elections Officials

Citizens Oversight sent the following email to elections officials in the targeted counties on 8/30,

Marion County

Sarasota

Orange County

Separation of Ballots on 9/7; audit on 9/8 at 8:00 a.m.

Hillsborough County

Brevard County

Polk County

Pinellas County

Topics that reference this topic

• M1684 2016-08-30 Citizens' Oversight: Election Scrutiny Extended to Florida and Arizona Primary Elections -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• ElectionOversightProcedures 2016-08-10 Election Oversight Procedures -- RayLutz CitizensOversight