Blackwater Potrero "Blackwater West" Mercenary Camp BlackwaterWorldwide, part of the PrinceGroup and one of the largest private military contractors in the worl...
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...
#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...
#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...
#CanvassProcedureSummary Canvass Procedure Summary This section of the Cops Canvass Report describes the overall process used to conduct elections in San Diego C...
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...
Details about this list: This list: electionintegrity #64;citizensoversight.org is NONPARTISAN and posts related to political issues that are not directly related...
Latest News This topic is now being used as a basis for more general instructions, here: ElectionOversightProcedures The primary election has many new development...
ElectionTeamEmail_2016 08 07 * read this as a web page: http://www.copswiki.org/Common/ElectionTeamEmail_2016 08 07 * read the next email: ElectionTeamE...
EventsArchive EventsArchive2009 Calendar events for 2009 2006 Paste in events that are deleted from the Calendar Page. * 30 Sep 2006 Hanson Fundraiser, R...
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...
Candidate: It's time to eat again After 11 days, East County political activist breaks fast began to get debate BY MICHELE CLOCK, UNION TRIBUNE ORIGINALLY PUBLIS...
FEATHERS FLY IN CONGRESSIONAL RACE; 2 CANDIDATES TO DEBATE SEPT. 21 IN RAMONA _ We have a chicken suit and we may have someone wear it to stand in for Duncan Hunt...
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...
REGION: Candidates in last minute push REGISTRAR REPORTS MORE THAN 303,000 BALLOTS ALREADY CAST THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING It's crunch time for the candidates. Expec...
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...
Improving the Security, Transparency and Efficiency of California's 1% Manual Tally Procedures Joseph Lorenzo Hall, UC Berkeley School of Information1 Abstract: ...
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...
101.591 Voting system audit (1) Immediately following the certification of each election, the county canvassing board or the local board responsible for certifyin...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
By MiriamRaftery The AlpineSun #8220;It #8217;s like Armageddon, #8221; Potrero resident Jill Michaels said of the devastating Harris and Witch fires that h...
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...
Rick Jacobs October 24, 2007 @ 10:39 AM As I write this, massive fires are raging across Southern California. While it is quiet and normal at my house in Los Ange...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
Fined legislator chided for tactics, praised as reliable By Michele Clock, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER John Marelius, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Sunday, December 1...
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...
SanDiegoCountyCanvassProcedurePreliminaryAnalysis DEPRECATED ANALYSIS The following description has been replaced by the report of 2010 02 11: COPsRovReport Log...
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...
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...
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 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...