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SB 1053

Expands right of candidates and political committees to send observers to provide oversight for nonpartisan elections. (Former State Rep. Ted Downing worked with Sen. Chuck Gray to write this bill. Contact Sen. Gray at cgray@azleg.gov (602)926-5288

SB 1395

Legalizes Graphic scanning of early, provisional ballots and 10% of polling station votes. Graphic ballot images can be burned to a single-use disk and/or placed on a website. This bill would make it possible for Pima County to implement its proposal for scanning that was opposed by the Secretary of State. (Sen. Karen Johnson is the sponsor of strike-all bill that originally was for orders of protection for animals). Contact Sen. Johnson at kjohnson@azleg.gov (602)926-3160

SB 1477

Allows political parties to do logic and accuracy tests using their own marked ballots. Improves auditing procedures. (Dr. Tom Ryan, www.azfairelections.org spearheaded this bill sponsored by Sen. Karen Johnson and Sen. Linda Gray. Contact Sen. Johnson
kjohnson@azleg.gov (602)926-3160 and Sen. Gray lgray@azleg.gov (602) 926-3376

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Citizens Make the Difference Preserving Election Integrity in Arizona

On January 8, 2008, a crucial hearing open to the public was intended to be a brief, small concession by some working within the Pima County Board of Supervisors. At stake was the decision to appeal the courts ruling in favor of the Democratic Party, or relinquish the data awarded by the judge in the trial. Republican Supervisor Ray Carroll seemed to understand the overhwhelming public outcry for all the records of 2006. Ray Carroll and an outraged public yielded the largest elections data release in the coutry to date.

Tucson's Heavy Hitter's get in on Election Integrity Case

LtCol. Jeffrey Latas gives his two cents in a passionate speech mostly address to the crowd...



Dr. Rick Graap gives Election Integrity analogy applying his medical knowledge to the case before the county supervisors...



While I did not attend this massive showing of public outcry, one person in attendance reported it to be "the most significant political event of his life".

The victory won in Pima county is a vary positive step forwarded but much work is left to be done. Please support AuditAZ and others by joining our meet up group (Right Side) too share you ideas and comments today.

Public out cry was BIG!

At the meeting Wednesday morning some 60 or 70 people came out to support the Election Integrity group that is seeking access to database's from the County officials. If you missed the meeting a blow by Blow is posted on BlogforArizona.com

Hear Is the above blogers statement to the county.



Even More Video to come...

County Board of Supervisors side with Election Integrity Group

Yesterday the County Board of Supervisors sided with Local's fighting for more transparency in the elections system. After winding the lawsuit asking for election database last month the county had refused to hand over the information because the county had planed on appealing the case.



Stay tuned for more video of the county hearing...

Closing Statements

4 Days of court brings closing statements. For me, I was running around making sure we had the proper video equipment for the TV news station to come down and get video of the closing arguments. By the end of the day the news had backed out of reporting the story and had no need for the video we had made available.

full video of the closing statements can be found hear.

Honestly Im not surprised that the TV news was absent from this case.. I guess Thats why Im trying to figure out this whole blogger thing... Bare with Me... maybe I should blog my complaints of the media and not just the stories I feel strong about...

Attorney Bill Risner lays out the importance of open access to election database's and the peoples right to see the information. 12-6-07



On this, Day Two of the trial local Blogger Mike Bryan was posting on his blog complete reports of the witness testimony and daily wrap-ups on the Bradblog.com