Posted on February 17, 2008
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Posted on February 13, 2008
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Subtask 2.1 -Define and Develop Interface Software for Automated Ballot Layout (ABL) System The Automated Ballot Layout (hereinafter “ABL”) System consists of processes that define ballot styles, vote recorder assembly sequences, and political contest rules and descriptions. The ABL System programmatically produces the layout of official and sample ballot pages. The ABL System is currently hosted on a mainframe and the County is transitioning to Windows/Intel. A transaction process that shall send and receive data to and from the ABL System and VIMS in the same format and the same frequency as the existing interface process or a future process defined by County shall be developed by the Contractor. Contractor shall also build and document processing logic and map transaction files to RR/CC’s existing interface or future files. Contractor shall perform an internal quality control check and certify that all components of this Interface have been completed and are performing according to its specifications.
Deliverables:
2.1.1 Report of processing logic specifications and map of transaction file
2.1.2 Report of Initial and Integrated System Component Tested software for the ABL System Interface
(page 77)
01/30/2007 RegRec1234 APPROVE SOLE SOURCE AGREEMENT WITH DATA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS…
available at the following links:
http://search2.co.la.ca.us/omd/
http://www.lavote.net/GENERAL/Board_Correspondence.cfm?br_year=2007
btw, AB (Absentee) also is contracted with Diebold in a separate agreement.
Posted on February 13, 2008
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Despite a record-breaking turnout of 189,000 voters registered as “Decline-to-State” (DTS)…
Dean Logan, L.A.’s Registrar of Voters, is still refusing to physically hand-count these ballots, effectively disenfranchising 94,500 — at least HALF — of DTS voters… because they didn’t fill in an extra bubble before voting for President.
Who’s responsible for the flawed ballot design?
Dean Logan
LOS ANGELES DESERVES BETTER!! Come on, get outraged, and SPEAK UP!!!
10 MINUTES: 4 ACTIONS TO TAKE:
1. Sign the Courage Campaign petition to demand a real count…
http://www.couragecampaign.org/
2. IF YOU HAD A PROBLEM VOTING:
Fill out the online incident report, that Work the Vote will analyze:
http://www.workthevotela.org/incident-report-form.php
3. Call County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s office (213) 974-3333 and voice your opinion.
Demand that our County Registrar DO HIS JOB!
ALSO Tell Zev it is highly inappropriate for Dean Logan to sign a 6-year contract with SOE SOFTWARE to manage our elections. Here’s two of the many reasons why:
Diebold ElectionSystems signs strategic teaming agreement withSOE.
SOE Software Creates Havoc in Palm Beach
Cut and Paste: Email or snail mail this letter (below) crafted by the LA California Election Protection Network.
(Did you know the job hunt for a new Registrar was unnecessarily delayed, AND, that the job no longer requires a college degree? That’s to administrate the largest county in the United States!)
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Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky
821 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 West Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Dear LA County Supervisor
In the wake of Los Angeles County’s Super Tuesday’s, February 5, 2008, primary election that resulted in at least 94,000 uncounted ballots, mass confusion over polling place consolidations, and vote caging that purged eligible voters from the voter rolls, I support the demands of the Los Angeles County chapter of the California Election Protection Network (CEPN) that you, a public servant, address this urgent matter:
a) Immediately instruct the Interim Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Dean Logan to, despite his public pronouncements to the contrary, publicly count all 94,000 uncounted double-bubble ballots given to Declined to States and American Independent Party voters. To do otherwise would constitute a violation of the California Constitution. (We can share with you a process for the count.)
b) Ensure and monitor a nationwide search for an LA County Registrar of Voters with an unblemished professional history, free of conflicts of interests and financial ties to the election system vendors, committed to counting every ballot accurately as cast, and a demonstrated willingness to maintain an open dialogue with election integrity advocates
c) Provide us with an explanation of the nearly-six week delay in the County’s posting of the job for Registrar following the December 11, 2007 Supervisors meeting, at which it was stated that the job bulletin was close to being finalized.
d) Work with the LA County Human Resources Department to follow up on requests that ensure the qualifications for LA Co ROV meet or exceed the college graduation requirements for LA County dog catcher
e) Request the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office investigate criminal activity involving vote caging — whereby voters are scrubbed from the rolls after failing to respond to voter registration confirmations disguised as innocuous junk mail solicitations
f) Establish a county task force to study the voter suppression effects of polling place consolidations, to consider the implementation of protocols, such as focus groups, to guard against confusing ballot designs, and to recommend systems that will ensure quick and timely dissemination of key instructions to poll supervisors at work during an election
I look forward to your immediate response.
Posted on February 13, 2008
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94,000 “Decline-to-State” votes in Los Angeles County — 50% of the total DTS ballots cast –
are being rejected due to a ballot design flaw, despite the Courage Campaign’s discovery of the “double bubble” problem and official notification to the Registrar prior to Election Day.
A few days before the primary, lawyers for the Courage Campaign uncovered the “double bubble” problem — a shocking requirement that “Decline-to-State” voters fill in a redundant “Democratic” bubble (on a ballot clearly marked “Democratic Party”) as well as a bubble next to their preferred presidential candidate. Our legal team realized that — without the “Democratic” bubble filled in — the county’s optical scanners would void votes for “President of the United States,” regardless of voter intent.
Unfortunately, Dean Logan, the Registrar in charge of Los Angeles County, is refusing to conduct a physical hand-count of every “Decline-to-State” vote before the official vote is certified in just a few weeks.
Every vote must be counted. And time is running out. Please sign our petition to Registrar Dean Logan today demanding that he conduct a physical hand count of all “Decline-to-State” votes cast in the Democratic primary. The more names we add to this petition, the more likely it is that the Registrar will count every vote.
Never again. Not in California. Not in America. Please sign our petition to Registrar Dean Logan right now.
Posted on February 13, 2008
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Letter from Ricco Ross to Dana at BOS.
Re: Diebold Election Systems’ partner, SOE to
manage LA elections!
Dear Dana
Thank you for your call. Below is only one of many articles of the creative ways Diebold is doing business as usual behind new names, as their past record has made the name Diebold synonymous with voter mismanagement and/or voter corruption. Diebold, the makers of ATM and Voting machines, can always give you a paper trail of precisely when, where, who and how much, when it comes to every single dollar bill, but when it comes to the American citizens vote, they say, you’ll have to trust us.
Yesterday while we were at the Supervisor’s building in meetings with Michael J Henry and other Sups., about our concerns of getting the most qualified person to be the permanent Registrar, Fujioko and Logan put forward their recommendation to hire this SOE to manage our elections for the next 4-6 years. We have uncovered lots of info including election failures caused by this company, and much more. This is BAD!!!! We do not want this company involved in our elections.
I received an emergency call this morning that the BOS were going to vote on item 14, the use of SOE (which has teamed up w/ Diebold) as the company to manage our elections. Fujioko and Logan recommended the board hire this company to manage our elections for the next 4-6 years. I shot down to the BOS, signed my name and was ready to fight alone if a colleague (who was on her way) couldn’t make it in time, only to find out that Sup. Burke had requested to continue both items 14 & 15 it until Feb. 19 th. I then spoke w/ and her assistant to confirm this info and left my info so that I could get you articles on the teaming up of Diebold & SOE.
NEWS FLASH: My colleague has just called me to inform me that items 14 & 15 were in fact voted on today after I left and 14 passed unanimously! She arrived after I left and fought alone on informing them that they are hiring SOE, Diebold, for the next 4 to 6 years w/o giving the “New” Reg. a chance to have any input. It passed unanimously, anyway!!! The BOS then asked Dean Logan if he would not use the extra bubble in June. As if they already know that Dean Logan is going to be in charge of the June elections. This is happening while they say they are supposedly seriously looking for someone else to replace him as the permanent Reg.ASAP!!! It seems clear that he is their man and they have shown their hand today.
I am concerned as I think the BOS have their minds made up no matter what proof we put before them to the contrary. The woman I spoke to must have known that they were trying to have the vote today and that Dean Logan was being helicoptered in so that the vote could go forward, but told me to rest assured that it had been continued until next wk. Taking me, which she thought would be the lone voice apposing 14, out of the equation. But fortunately my colleague didn’t have her phone and didn’t get my message that we had an extra week, showed up and fought the good fight.
All of this will be on the website tomorrow and I would like to respectfully request a meeting with
someone from the BOS, perhaps Burke whom I trust and admire, to explain what is really going on.
Most Sincerely,
Ricco Ross
MFA, UCLA
42 Assembly District,
KPFK Local Station Board, Chair,
PDLA Education Committee, Chair,
PDLA Accountability Committee, Co-Chair