{"id":3639,"date":"2006-10-18T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T00:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2006-10-19T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T23:39:29","slug":"ca-sec-of-state-candidate-publishes-voters-bill-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3639","title":{"rendered":"CA Sec. of State Candidate Publishes &#8216;Voters Bill of Rights&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.DebraBowen.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/DebraBowen.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Is this sort of thing actually necessary? Apparently it is.<\/p>\n<p>While the following 10 items seem painfully obvious, apparently these no-brainer items need to be issued as a <a href=\"http:\/\/ga3.org\/campaign\/voterbillofrights\">&#8220;Voter Bill of Rights&#8221;<\/a> by CA Secretary of State candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.DebraBowen.com\">Debra Bowen<\/a>, given the mess we currently face (made possible, in no small part, by the hapless, duplicitous current CA SoS Bruce McPherson)&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"medianogreen\"><b>1.<\/b> The Right To Register To Vote.<br \/>\n<b>2.<\/b> The Right To Vote.<br \/>\n<b>3.<\/b> The Right to Vote In A Tamper-Proof Election.<br \/>\n<b>4.<\/b> The Right To Vote On Paper.<br \/>\n<b>5.<\/b> The Right To Have Each Vote Counted Accurately.<br \/>\n<b>6.<\/b> The Right To Have Election Results Properly Audited.<br \/>\n<b>7.<\/b> The Right To An Open, Transparent, Public Process.<br \/>\n<b>8.<\/b> The Right To Elections Officials Who Operate Free of Partisan Influence.<br \/>\n<b>9.<\/b> The Right To Know that Elected Officials Are Free From the Influence of Campaign Contributions From Voting Machine Vendors.<br \/>\n<b>10.<\/b> The Right To Find Out How Money Is Being Raised And Spent In The Political Process.<\/div>\n<p>Have we mentioned that Bowen&#8217;s victory in defeating McPherson is perhaps one the most important elections in the country if we hope to ever see Electoral Integrity in this country again?  <a href=\"http:\/\/ga3.org\/campaign\/voterbillofrights\"><i>Sign on to support here&#8230;<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbs5.com\/video\/?id=17324@kpix.dayport.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BowenMcPhersonDebate_101806.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a><b>UPDATE 10:28pm PT:<\/b> Bowen and McPherson debated today. <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs5.com\/video\/?id=17324@kpix.dayport.com\">Video here<\/a>. Haven&#8217;t gotten to watch it yet, but McP would never out and out <i>lie<\/i> would he? Not before an important editorial board, right?<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 10:33pm PT:<\/b> Whoops! Just watched the first five minutes and he already did! Go figure&#8230;I suspect there are many more to come.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 10\/18\/06 4:37pm PT:<\/b> Holy cow! Lies o&#8217; plenty! And more! <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3640\">Full coverage of the debate now here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this sort of thing actually necessary? Apparently it is. While the following 10 items seem painfully obvious, apparently these no-brainer items need to be issued as a &#8220;Voter Bill of Rights&#8221; by CA Secretary of State candidate Debra Bowen, given the mess we currently face (made possible, in no small part, by the hapless, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21,17,28],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-mcpherson","category-california","category-debra-bowen","category-election-reform"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}