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(May 11, 2020, 3:40 p.m.) -- The grassroots Long Beach Reform Coalition has retained veteran election law attorney Frederic Woocher and his law firm to file suit today (May 11) in LA County Superior Court seeking a writ of mandate and injunctive relief to require LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan to restart the recount of LB's Measure A as a traditional, paper ballot recount at a reasonable cost.
The City Hall-sought Measure A sales tax extension was failing passage in every ballot tally until the last one...when the County election office claimed it passed by a 16 vote margin (out of nearly 100,000 votes cast.) LB's Reform Coalition the took the lead in pursuing a recount, spending over $21,000 to date on a process it contends turned into "an utter charade," alleging Logan used flaws in a new voting system "to obstruct the process and terminate it before completion." If successful, the Reform Coalition says its litigation "effectively will return to the public its right to verify election outcomes, rather than relying purely on non-transparent computerized tabulation." In its release, the Reform Coalition states: [Scroll down for further.] |
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[reform Coalition release text] Mr. Logan was responsible for implementing for last March’s primary election an entirely new voting system, called VSAP (an acronym for Voting Solutions for All People), which counts votes electronically. The criticality of an auditable paper trail of ballots, especially in the case of a close election, such as the recent vote on Long Beach’s Measure A, has apparently been lost on Mr. Logan. Instead of determining the accurate vote count, he sought to obstruct the recount by every means available to him, in order, we believe, to cover up the flaws in his new VSAP system. Given that most vote counting errors arise from the computer misreading scanned images of vote-by-mail (VBM) ballots, the recent decision that all voters receive ballots by mail, due to the pandemic, makes this litigation all the more urgent...
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