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. Since this was an election year, the most active projects ...
#AuditLogDiscrepancies Audit Log Discrepancies COPs requested and received the central tabulator audit log. This is perhaps the most important means for oversigh...
#AuditTrail Audit Trail Transparent and verifiable elections are essential to the operation of any democracy. To instill these qualities our elections procedures...
#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...
#FivePercentReview COPs Five Percent Review COPs conducted a review of RoV procedures by gather all available and relevant documentation on a 5% random sample of...
#ExecutiveSummaryAndIntroduction Executive Summary Introduction This report is the result of a project initiated by Citizens' Oversight Projects (COPs) in 2008...
#IssuesOfConcern Issues of Concern Overview Based on our review of the November 2008 presidential election, the Issues of Concern are grouped into the following ...
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...
#LackOfDocumentation Policy and Procedures Documentation Lacking The RoV is responsible for processing our election without undue error. The first step in a high...
#ManualTallyProcedure Manual Tally Procedure The RoV maintains the One Percent Manual Tally Procedure to govern this process, which is mandated by the SoS. This ...
#CanvassProcedureSummary Canvass Procedure Summary This section of the Cops Canvass Report describes the overall process used to conduct elections in San Diego C...
#UnscannedBallots Ballot Control and Scanning The first step of our review is to determine if all the ballots were correctly processed. Acceptable Error Rate Vo...
CopsUpdate2014Oct05 * http://// == click here for Web Version of this page, for best viewing. * CopsUpdates Archive of all COPS updates emails. * http:/...
Latest News * 2010 06 23 "Top Cap" suction pipe no longer engaged on top of wellhead, well is now gushing full force with no containment at all. Background ...
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...
ElectionIntegrityTeamMeeting2014May29 This is the invitation that was sent out. We had about 10 people at the meeting. ELECTION INTEGRITY TEAM MEETING, MAY 29, 20...
Latest News This topic is now being used as a basis for more general instructions, here: ElectionOversightProcedures The primary election has many new development...
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 ...
GeneralInfoOnJustices This should help Dear Fellow Democrat, Every time we elect a Governor, we also vote on whether to retain various Justices on the California...
* 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: ...
Evidence of the toxicity of glyphosate is overwhelming Compiled by Adrienne Samuels, Ph.D. June, 2014 Overview: 1) Evidence of the toxicity of glyphosate (a c...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
* LetterToVuOnVBMManualTallyDiscrepancies.pdf: Letter to Vu including Exh. 1 regarding Early VBM discrepancies * 1_Manual_Tally_Summary_Report_June_2016_ San...
* 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...
Most of these cases were harvested from the California Association of Clerks and Elections Officials (CACEO) website. They were renamed with standard date prefix ...
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...
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 ...
* Oct 31 Update https://www.facebook.com/raylutz/videos/10216569398254889/ Learned that in person voting at the ROV are handled just like VBM ballots. ...
* 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
July 5, 2007 Carl Mortished, International Business Editor Gazprom will create its own private army after Russian lawmakers gave the gas utility and Transneft, th...
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 ...
Latest News Request for information and public records sent to the Registrar of Voters on November 20, 2008. * SanDiegoCountyCanvassProcedure An attempt to...
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...
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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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...
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...
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 ...