Secretary of State Dispatches Election Observers
to San Francisco

Written by Luke Thomas. Posted in News, Politics

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/patmonkrn/ Patrick Monk

  Probably to little and to late but let’s act upon The Precautionary Principle and start thinking about a Mr Ed Recall.

• http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_tab_pro Ann Garrison

  Monitoring is good, but let’s have some federal investigators. That’s the only thing I can imagine giving the Board the courtesy not to certify this filthy election.

• Hope Johnson

  Debra Bowen is sending state monitors? Good luck with that. She has been foisted off on voters by the blue dog Democrats for years despite her continued failure to implement open source voting. She’s monitoring the very power structure that keeps her elected as a meaningless Secretary of State.

• http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_tab_pro Ann Garrison

  I meant to say courage; a federal election seems most likely to give the Board courage not to certify the election.

• Richmondman

  Bowen’s failure? According to the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), “(in 2008) California’s state assembly considered a bill mandating that new voting systems be based on open-source software. The bill didn’t pass, despite support from the California secretary of state…”

• http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/author/hbrown/ Harold Brown

  Old bulldog’s advice,

  Diversify your emotional stock my children. I’m going to see if I remember the way to the Bay on foot. You should maybe reacquaint yourself with what’s-her/his-name, your mate. Of, you know, take up frisbee or something.

  Go Niners!

  h.

• http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_tab_pro Ann Garrison

  This vote count is going to take 2.5 weeks, during which time the San Francisco DA at least will investigate the various charges against the Ed Lee campaign.

  Then the Board will have to certify the election.

  No one seems to take me seriously about this but I’d like to see one of the campaigns, best of all Terry Baum’s, get an election lawyer and go to Superior Court asking for an injunction to stop John Arnst from counting Ed Lee’s votes based on the preponderance of evidence that his campaign is guilty of election fraud.

• http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_tab_pro Ann Garrison

  Also, excuse me; I doubt anyone’s noticing me stumbling all over my words here, but I keep trying to say that “a federal investigation would be most likely to give the Board courage not to certify the election.” (I’m trying to think about U.S. Special Forces in East Central Africa at the same time, but it’s no excuse.)

  I know it’s unlikely, given Pelosi, Feinstein, Newsom, Brown, and company’s determination to make sure City Hall keeps letting them run San Francisco like the family business.

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/patmonkrn/ Patrick Monk

  FYI. The ink ain’t yet dry on this farcical perversion of participatory ‘democracy’ but the edict has already come down from on high and the minions are appropriately obeisant. Elsbernd and Farrell are officially working to overturn RCV. No word yet from Chu & Wiener, guess they only get CC’d, but no doubt that they will fall in line, after all they’re just ‘good gigolos following orders’.

• http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_tab_pro Ann Garrison

  I watched Farrell and Elsbernd, both of whom owe their seats to IRV, introduce that resolution on SFGOV TV today, and saw Avalos react angrily. Then an IRV defender from a California election reform organization stood up and reacted angrily as well, during public comment, and tried to summarize the case for IRV.

  But I finally found an election lawyer to talk to who pointed out what now seems obvious, though it didn’t at first. That the election will not be overturned and the courts will not get involved unless it can be argued that there are enough “tainted ballots” to suggest that the election result would have been different if they weren’t counted.

  It’s like asking, “Were you prejudiced by Defendant [or Plaintiff's] action?” in court. Were you really disadvantaged by the dishonesty of the Ed Lee campaign? Would it have made any difference if Ed Lee’s campaign had been honest? How many ballots shouldn’t have been counted?

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/patmonkrn/ Patrick Monk

  Pretty accurate description of SF political reality from Mutt & Ruff in today’s Kron. ” Lee..spent years working with what he likes to call ‘the city family’. Others call it the ‘permanent government’ of city department heads, union leaders, non profit chiefs and city managers who manage to survive every change in mayoral administrations.