San Diego: Democrats Ask SD County Board To Hold Election Hearings

[kpete]

Democrats ask county to hold election hearings

By: DAVE DOWNEY - Staff Writer

SAN DIEGO ---- The head of the local Democratic Party said Monday he will ask the San Diego County Board of Supervisors today to schedule public hearings to investigate the county's handling of the June primary, including its decision to send electronic voting machines home with poll workers several days before the election.

Jess Durfee, chairman of the San Diego County Democratic Party, said he will stress during a public comment period in the morning board meeting and in a press conference afterwards that election integrity was compromised by what he calls the "sleep over" policy. Durfee said it is his hope that a round of public hearings will yield a new set of reforms, including a ban on the practice.

"There have got to be some better security measures than letting voting machines, which are vulnerable to being tampered with, sit in someone's living room or garage," he said.

Durfee said he also wants hearings to address complaints his party received about some voters receiving absentee ballots too late to mail them in before the election and others getting information-loaded sample ballots as much as 10 days after they received absentee forms.

more at:
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/07/18/news/top_stories/22_09_197_17_06.txt

[mom cat]

1. The "sleepovers" are only the tip of the iceberg, but I am glad to

see some movement by the Dems on this one.