{"id":3237,"date":"2006-08-14T23:41:25","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T06:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2006-08-14T23:41:25","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T06:41:25","slug":"san-mateo-county-ca-open-voting-consortium-raging-grannies-work-together-to-resist-evms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3237","title":{"rendered":"San Mateo County, CA: Open Voting Consortium, Raging Grannies Work Together to Resist EVMs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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At first glance they might seem like odd partners, but take another look: Open Voting Consortium<\/a> and Raging Grannies<\/a> are working together in San Mateo County to resist the Chief Elections Officer’s plan to introduce EVMs from Hart Intercivic Voting Systems. <\/p>\n

They had a meeting Monday night and it appeared to go well. Here’s a brief account from one of our friends on the scene: <\/p>\n

I was very impressed with the excellent organization of the “Open Voting” and “election Integrity” organization(s) … <\/p>\n[they] have already met with the [board of Supervisors, San Mateo County] … given them packets of information, have a series of speakers, each with a different aspect of the problem, possible solutions, etc. spelled out. <\/p>\n

Press will be there and “press kits” have been prepared …<\/p><\/div>\n

Good! The more prepared the better, I’d say.<\/p>\n

There’s a press release describing Tuesday’s planned demonstration, after the fold.<\/p>\n

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DEMOCRACY AT STAKE in San Mateo County!<\/strong><\/p>\n

— Raging Grannies and Voting Integrity Activists to Demonstrate —<\/p>\n

Advocate groups for voting integrity have issued a call to action in San Mateo County due to Chief Elections Officer Warren Slocum’s plan to bring Hart Intercivic Voting Systems from Austin, Texas into the county. <\/p>\n

According to activist Brent Turner, Hart Intercivic has tendered a 10+ million dollar bid to take over the San Mateo County election process and both Mr. Slocum and Elections Manager David Tom are in favor of contracting with the issue-plagued Hart Intercivic company.<\/p>\n

The Raging Grannies Action League (which includes San Mateo County resident Grannies), together with members of Open Voting Consortium has issued a call for the support of all good patriots and advocates of voting integrity.<\/p>\n

In addition to meeting early this week with members of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, we will demonstrate ahead of a meeting of the Supervisors where discussion (and we fear “rubber stamping”) of the purchase of the Hart Machines will take place.<\/p>\n

What<\/strong>: Activist\/Raging Granny Demonstration for Election Transparency (featuring Raging Granny dramatization of Hart equipment problems)<\/p>\n

When<\/strong>: Tuesday, August 15th at 8:30a.m.<\/p>\n

Where<\/strong>: In front of Board of Supervisors Meeting (Hall inside building or possibly in courtyard outside 400 County Center Rd, Redwood City)<\/p>\n

Contacts<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

  • For Directions\/photo ops\/general information, please call: Granny Ruth Robertson cell (650)279-8761<\/li>\n
  • Spokeswoman for Raging Grannies: Granny Gail Sredanovic (San Mateo County resident) (650) 854-0344<\/li>\n
  • Spokesmen from Open Voting Consortium: Brent Turner (San Mateo County resident) (650) 726-1133<\/li>\n
  • Founder of Open Voting Consortium: Alan Dechert, cell (916) 792-1784 home (916) 772-5360<\/li>\n

    Websites<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

  • www.OpenVoting.org<\/a><\/li>\n
  • www.RagingGrannies.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Guest blogged by Winter Patriot At first glance they might seem like odd partners, but take another look: Open Voting Consortium and Raging Grannies are working together in San Mateo County to resist the Chief Elections Officer’s plan to introduce EVMs from Hart Intercivic Voting Systems. They had a meeting Monday night and it appeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,38],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-hart-intercivic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}