Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer
KTLA News reports on the rush to prepare paper ballots for upcoming elections, including next February’s California presidential primary now that Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified electronic voting in 29 counties because the machines proved vulnerable to hackers.
The piece also features Riverside County election integrity activist (and hero) Tom Courbat of SAVE R VOTE who raises concerns about Sequoia’s role in counting the paper ballots, “when these ballots go into electronic tabulating machines there is no way to tell whether or not they have been programmed to flip the vote and rig the election.” While Registrar of Voters, Barbara Dunmore, agrees with Courbat about the vulnerability of electronic machines, she believes election officials have put in place safeguards that will ensure fair elections.
For more on Courbat’s tireless efforts to protect democracy in Riverside County see this video mashup.
I watched the video mashup. Not bad. I esp got a kick out of Tavaglione’s comment that “I think [Debra Bowen’s] nuts.”
If I lived in Riverside County I would be all over that guy. Are the people of Riverside paying his salary so he can make cheap, unsubstantiated shots that include childish name-calling? Or are they paying him to represent the interests of the people of Riverside?
I suppose that when you live in an area where an awful lot of TV-watching is going on, and that TV-watching time is coming directly out of the time previously spent being involved in your community (going to your child’s soccer game and doing bake sales for your child’s high school booster club don’t count), well, you get what you demand.