FYI. She it was who joined former Diebold salesperson, Deborah Seiler, now San Diego County Registrar, in
suing Secretary of State Debra Bowen, to stop modest improvements in the audits (hand-count to check machine totals) just before the primary. Nice waste of more taxpayers' money. They lost. Bowen's improvements stand. But it's typical of the attitude of corporate servants like Barbara Dunmore, who have resisted paper ballots and all transparency. This gang of "bad actor" election officials also includes (but is not limited to) San Bernardino County (joined the lawsuit against SoS Bowen), Los Angeles County (headed by Conny McCormack until Dec 07, now by her handpicked successor, Dean Logan, of the 94,000 rejected indy votes), and Steven Weir, head of the county election officials lobbying group, and Contra Costa County registrar.
You can hear all them whining and carrying on about Bowen's reforms in the following articles, and promising
slow vote counts--days before the primary. In my opinion, they are fully capable of sabotage, to slow the vote count down, to be blamed on SoS Bowen's reforms.
(Seiler and Weir whining--with Riverside and San Bernardino referenced)
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_8157074?source=rss(Conny McCormack whining, with Riverside and Dunmore referenced)
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/ci_8153626?source=rss(And Steve Weir whining and conniving, back in August - 8/12/07)
“This election, if it's a failure, it's on her (i.e., SoS Bowen),” said Steve Weir, president of the California Association of Clerks and Elections Officials and Contra Costa County's registrar of voters.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070812-9999-1n12bowen.html(A comprehensive look at Calif's election system)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4380748Problems like deteriorating/ melting absentee ballots, and an independent voter ballot that disenfranchises almost 94,000 people, are the result of the corporate "culture of secrecy" that has infected our election system, shoddiness and carelessness about the public trust, money corruption, and a complete loss of a sense of public service, as opposed to serving corporate vendors. The voter is the sucker to be lied to and conned, sold defective goods, and robbed--of billions of dollars for completely unnecessary machines, which are dangerous, if not fatal, to democracy. Machine breakdowns, as we know, can be opportunities for election theft. And snafus like melting ballots, and confusing, unnecessary "buttons" on the ballots, can also be opportunities for fraud, as well as political gimmicks with which to push the corporate secrecy agenda.
The CA county registrars mentioned above are so devoted to their corporate vendors, and have so little regard for the voters or for their own responsibility to run
transparent elections, they really need to be fired, as an essential step toward restoring accountability in these county election systems. SaveRVote, an election integrity group in Riverside, has called for a complete financial and election system audit in Riverside (Dunmore). All of these counties (and some others) need such audits--now.