ActivistToolbox * BrownAct Your rights in public meetings. * Debate Advisory Standards Project: Proposes groundrules and formats for debates. https://www.de...
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...
COPs RoV Report Thank you for completing our form for your "free" copy of our extensive research on the operation of the San Diego County Registrar of Voters. Cli...
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 ...
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...
CopsCanvassReport This topic includes the entire report. However, each section is on a separate page to ease revision tasks. This page is not part of the report. ...
#AuditLogDiscrepancies Audit Log Discrepancies COPs requested and received the central tabulator audit log. This is perhaps the most important means for oversigh...
#ChainOfCustody Chain of Custody Chain of Custody Overview The term "chain of custody" is most commonly used with regard to legal evidence. Chain of custody re...
#ConcludingRemarks Concluding Remarks Some concluding remarks are in order. Opinions are those of the primary investigator, Raymond Lutz. RoV not prepared for o...
#DocumentsReferenced Documents Referenced The following documents were provided by the RoV as a response to our request or obtained from other sources. These doc...
#ExecutiveSummaryAndIntroduction Executive Summary Introduction This report is the result of a project initiated by Citizens' Oversight Projects (COPs) in 2008...
Issues Summary This part of the report lists all issues in numerical order. There are two major categories of issues. * Issues related to RoV Procedures Thes...
CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT PROJECTS (COPs) Review of the procedures of the San Diego County Registrar of Voters November, 2008 Presidential Election Completed on January...
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...
Latest News Background I started this project mainly as a placeholder right now, to record any issues we notice about court procedures that may need further inve...
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 ...
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...
ElectionIntegrityTeamMeeting2014Jun04 The following is the invitation to the 04 Jun 2014 meeting. Videos and snapshots are on the main project page ElectionSnapho...
ElectionIntegrityTeamMeeting2014May29 This is the invitation that was sent out. We had about 10 people at the meeting. ELECTION INTEGRITY TEAM MEETING, MAY 29, 20...
ElectionMonitoring You can help for an hour or a day. Here's how: Help people understand their rights: * VoterRights.pdf: Voter's Bill of Rights Flier ready...
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 ...
EventList Please edit this list to include your events. Also see: * HowToAddEvents for details on how to add events to the calendar. * CommonCalendar ...
EventsArchive EventsArchive2009 Calendar events for 2009 2006 Paste in events that are deleted from the Calendar Page. * 30 Sep 2006 Hanson Fundraiser, R...
FacebookDiscussions We are now using Facebook more and more to discuss news and issues. We will start to gather these here. Later, we will establish a means to co...
Sub projects Overview According to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, "the most important office in a democracy is that of the citizen." Unfortunately, our g...
GovtOversight Projects The following COPsProgram projects have the ProjectType parameter set to GovtOversight. How to locate an appropriate governmental body tha...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER July 31, 2007 EAST COUNTY #8211; Anger over the proposed Blackwater USA training facility in Potrero has led to the co...
Should Blackwater USA be allowed to convert a valley bordering national forest lands into a private military and law enforcement training base? No way, says a ...
Absentee voters change election dynamics CHANCES FADE FOR LAST MINUTE HIT PIECES AS INCREASING NUMBERS VOTE EARLY By MARK WALKER mlwalker #64;nctimes.com Post...
* 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 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...
Panel in hot water over Blackwater vote Recall petition, lawsuit under way By Anne Krueger STAFF WRITER May 12, 2007 The planning group for the backcountry com...
* 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...
These tutorial videos provide an overview of the election processing flowchart and how asking for a snapshot CD of the election at a critical time can put a stop ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
* 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...
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 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...
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. ...
* 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...
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...
A Brief History of Citizens' Oversight Projects I think it may help if I give a thumbnail sketch of the history of this entity. It is a 501(c)3 nonpartisan nonpro...
by: MiriamRaftery Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:54:43 AM PDT (Welcome Miriam, an award winning journalist to Calitics. More info from on the ground there, following up o...
'Working as a team' Blackwater fury shelved as Potrero reacts to Harris fire By Pat Sherman 10/30/2007 Jan Hedlun sat on the front porch of the Potrero General St...
Countywide Fire Update 195 Potrero Recall Election to Proceed as Planned The December 11, 2007 Recall Election in the Potrero Community Planning Group will proce...
by: Miriam Raftery Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:54:43 AM PDT (Welcome Miriam, an award winning journalist to Calitics. More info from on the ground there, following up...
Election proceeds despite fires By Miriam Raftery The Alpine Sun POTRERO #8212; #8220;You can #8217;t burden a community devastated by fire and add merce...
Since the recall election was completed on Dec. 11, and the Registrar of Voters finalized the result earlier in the day, the newly elected ... all » Potrero Plan...
My intention was to mail this to all the voters in Potrero as a response to some of the inaccurate comments in various publications. As I have been under the weat...
I wrote this yesterday but it was rejected due to an error of mine. Here it is. Folks: I just got off the phone with Robert Paresee (sp?) of the Registrar of Vot...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER December 13, 2007 Strictly speaking, a vote removing five members of the Potrero planning group for their support of a ...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 1:12 a.m. December 12, 2007 EAST COUNTY #8211; Five members of the Potrero planning group were voted off the panel Tue...
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...
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...
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...
By Chris Moran STAFF WRITER September 12, 2008 EAST COUNTY County school board candidate Rose Urdahl acknowledged she doesn't have the credentials for two jobs...
Democrats on pace to lead registration By Craig Gustafson and Helen Gao UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS October 9, 2008 The electoral edge that Republicans have held ...
By Patrick Heald When it comes to controversial San Diego County school districts, San Diego City Schools grabs most of the headlines, what with the district bo...
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...
* 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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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 ...
By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 12:01 a.m. LAKESIDE Residents angry about the Lakeside Fire Protection District board ...
Latest News Request for information and public records sent to the Registrar of Voters on November 20, 2008. * SanDiegoCountyCanvassProcedure An attempt to...
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...
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...
PaperBallots Dear Friends and Fellow Activists: As some of you may now be aware, we have learned that some people in San Diego have received xeroxes of official...
PollsInChurches * 18 Sep 2006: Delivered letter to RegistrarOfVoters regarding polling places in churches and Christian Examiner newspaper. Letter_To_Registar_o...
PostElectionRecording Devote an Hour To Democracy A Project of Secure * Accurate * Elections The work takes place after the polls close! First, Locate the Vote T...
PotreroPlanningGroupRecallElection This recall election was significant because it was one of the first elections after Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified...
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...
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RaymondLutz Explains: Open Canvass Overview Narration Ray Lutz % AUDIOMEDIA{"http://www.copswiki.org/w/pub/Common/OpenCanvassOverview/OpenCanvassOverviewNarrati...
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...
SanDiegoCountyCanvassProcedurePreliminaryAnalysis DEPRECATED ANALYSIS The following description has been replaced by the report of 2010 02 11: COPsRovReport Log...
The address will mislead you if you punch it into your navigator. Use Ruffin Road and enter through Hazard Way. Big parking structure on the left is available for...
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...
SecuritySealStandards The RegistrarOfVoters has an incredible 6% seal tampering rate, with apparently no followup. They don't seem to follow standard security sea...
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...
StateElectionDistrictTargetingProcedure This procedure determines election district targets and evaluates past audit compliance. In the following procedure, repla...
VotersBillOfRights VOTERS #8217; BILL OF RIGHTS Know your rights as a voter and educate your family, friends, and neighbors as well. We must make sure that every ...
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 ...