Orange County, CA. In a ten-minute video news blog, the Full Disclosure Network® has videotaped interviews with a cavalcade of angry citizens who say the OC Registrar provided them with faulty voter registration data, undermining their confidence in the ability of the County to conduct accurate or fair elections. This FREE video news blog is available for viewing "On Demand" 24/7 as a public service of the Full Disclosure Network®.
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This video news blog is being re-released on the Internet as the OC Registrar is bracing for an unprecedented and growing onslaught of criticism. The complaints that are certain to come, following the outcome of the Board of Supervisors investigation that found Registrar Neal Kelly to be negligent in the CUSD Recall peititon drive. The Orange County voter registration database became the focal point of complaints from citizen groups throughout South Orange County earlier this year.
CITIZENS WORRY OVER CORRUPTED DATABASE
Appearing in the video are representatives from the "Newporters for Responsible Government" (NRG) Spokesman John Buttolph, Campaign Organizer Tom Billings, and Initiative Coordinator Liz Vitale. The NRG group describes a corrupted voter registration database that was provided to them by the Voter Registrar's Office that caused confusion and delay on their signature gathering. The group is attempting to qualify an initiative in the City of Newport Beach that would mandate voter approval on COPs (Certificate of Participation Bonds) to finance public projects. NRG expressed concerns in two letters to the Registrar, requesting fairness be exercised when validating their petitions and signatures.
CUSD RECALL CAMPAIGN AGREES
Also in the video, corruption of the voter database was substantiated by leaders of the CUSD Recall Campaign; Tom Russell, Spokesman and Jennifer Beall, campaign organizer, who describe in the video the similar problems they encountered with the Orange County Registrar's office. In December of 2005, the Registrar invalidated a high percentage of voter signatures declaring the petitions did not qualify to recall all seven CUSD Trustees.
OC REGISTRAR/COUNTY COUNSEL REFUSE TO COMMENT
When contacted for a statement and explanation Acting OC Registrar Neal Kelly refused to be interviewed, nor would he provide an official statement acknowledging the problems. Kelly referred the news media to the County Counsel's office for a response and ordered his employees not to talk to the media. Senior Deputy County Counsel Ann Fletcher did provide a written statement to the Full Disclosure Network® ."the Registrar will not prepare the requested statement" and cited the Public Records Act as the authority.
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CLARENCE M BOND garden grove
Posted: 02:26 am [PST] on November 13 2008
IN THE LAST ELECTION HOW MANY VOTERS ARE USING THE SAME BIRTH CERTIFICATE,THERE MUST BE A WAY AT SOCIAL SECURITY OR THE MILITARY DATABASE TO FIND OUT.THANKS.
GEORGINA SMITH ORANGE COUNTY, CA
Posted: 10:25 pm [PST] on April 10 2007
I THINK THAT THE ORANGE COUNTY POLITICAL SYSTEM IS COMPLETELY CORRUPTED FAR WORSE THAN ANYBODY TAKES INTO ACCOUNT. THE INJUSTICE THAT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM PRACTICES IS INCONCIEVABLE... IT IS TIME THAT THE VICTIMS AND CITIZENS WHO ARE AFFECTED BY THIS CORRUPTION OPEN THEIR EYES, AND REFUSE TO BE SHUT DOWN AS WE HAVE BEEN AND CONTINUE TO BE. IT WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD AND INFECT THE COMMUNITY AND THE GOVERNMENT SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Sonia K. Thompson San Clemente
Posted: 08:05 pm [PST] on March 29 2007
Orange County is quickly becoming the place not to be. Bankruptcy years ago, corruption within my school district, and now the OC Registrar of Voters
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H. T. Seaborn Los Alamitos, CA
Posted: 03:30 pm [PST] on September 24 2006
Thanks for your good work. Public confidence in the election process is crucial to a stable democratic process.
Action Jackson South Orange County
Posted: 12:55 pm [PST] on September 06 2006
The Orange County Board of Supervisors has hired two independent consultants to "round up the usual suspects" and investigate the serious allegations of corruption brought against Neil Kelley and the office of the Registrar of Voters. This action was pushed forward only after it was discovered that high level administrators with the Capistrano Unified School District were illegally allowed by Kelley to review CUSD Trustee recall petitions and record names of petition gathers.
There has been an on-going cover up of the corruption in the ROV operations as denoted by the gag order issued by the Orange County Counsel to the Registrar. The issues put forth by the Board of Supervisors in their goals for the investigation do not include an in depth critical review of the voter registration computer data base. Unless the corrupted data base is redesigned to deal with matching, verification and validation processes, our elections in Orange County will continue to violate our established rights of holding and participating in democratic elections.
Neil Kelley should be fired and replaced by an industry senior manager with a background of statistics and computer science.
G. Lambert L.A. County
Posted: 12:06 am [PST] on September 05 2006
From what I've been hearing on Fox News lately, it appears that recent arrivals from outside the U.S. are demanding to vote and be counted in upcoming elections, even if they are not citizens. This can be a major problem, and would need help from someone "inside" to cooperate to corrupt the integrity of our elections. I know -- it happened to me in 1990.
Annonymous LA County
Posted: 07:04 am [PST] on August 21 2006
I believe the integrity of the election process has been and continues to be corrupted. I also believe that until the government can convince voters that elections free of corruption and abuse American democracy is a joke.
John Ervin Newport Beach, CA
Posted: 01:57 pm [PST] on June 03 2006
I'm a contributing journalist and "BBV Action Crew Member" of www.blackboxvoting.org, called by Time magazine, "the Gospel of the movement." That movement would be our attempts to make public the staggering and exponential fraud in our elections. I interviewed the Orange County Registrar just before the 2004 "Election," at a time when he was still Assistant: Neal Kelley. He was not exactly forthcoming, especially when I got on the subject of GEMS, or the central tabulators of voting, which have been shown by Black Box scientists to be able to "flip" the vote with a few keystrokes of a laptop. The spiraling fraud caused by electronic voting machines, and the fact that our voting machines in Orange County were made by Hart InterCivic ~ which was for many decades a printing company, until given a huge cash infusion ($100 million) by Joe Allbaugh at the Bush Statehouse, in Austin ~ gives us much cause for concern as to the outcome of both petition drives and the votes themselves. I have been on radio for hour interviews three times about this, in the last year or so, and was invited to present on TV how Diebold voting machines were hugely out of whack with the results in the rest of California. We've got big problems in getting an accurate count, let me tell you, and Rolling Stone carries an RFK, Jr. article about this, this issue, that is very compelling. We all need to be made aware of the huge potential for fraud in our current systems, and demand paper counts (not just receipts: they can be gimmicked, but actual paper ballots and hand counts). Anything else will continue the pattern of fraud, and may well lose us these petition efforts, and/or election efforts for slow growth in Newport, etc.