{"id":3039,"date":"2006-07-06T18:38:44","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T01:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?page_id=3039"},"modified":"2006-07-06T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T04:14:08","slug":"manual-hand-count-requested-for-june-6th-busbybilbray-special-us-house-election","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?page_id=3039","title":{"rendered":"DOCUMENTS: Manual Hand Count Request for June 6th Busby\/Bilbray U.S. House Special Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A request for a manual hand count of all paper ballots and paper trails in the June 6th U.S. House Special Election in California&#8217;s 50th congressional district was filed on July 5th at the San Diego County Registrar&#8217;s office. The election was between Democratic candidate Francine Busby and Republican candidate Brian Bilbray.<\/p>\n<p>The election is in question due to Diebold voting machines, both optical-scan and touch-screen, having been sent home <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2932\">overnight with poll workers<\/a> for days and weeks prior to the election in violation of <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2926\">new state and federal laws<\/a> which then effectively decertified all such voting machines as used during the special election.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first federal race to be run since the new laws took effect.<\/p>\n<p>An article with more details on this manual hand count request, and the costs being quoted to the requester, Barbara Gail Jacobson (nearly $130,000!) can be <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3036\">read here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">BRAD BLOG <\/a>articles concerning the Busby\/Bilbray election fiasco can be <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?cat=2\">read here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Docs\/CA50_HandCountRequest_070506_page1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Docs\/CA50_HandCountRequest_070506_page2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Docs\/CA50_HandCountRequest_070506_page3_SigRedact.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A request for a manual hand count of all paper ballots and paper trails in the June 6th U.S. House Special Election in California&#8217;s 50th congressional district was filed on July 5th at the San Diego County Registrar&#8217;s office. The election was between Democratic candidate Francine Busby and Republican candidate Brian Bilbray. The election is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3039","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}