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Election Integrity Project California (EIPCa) Sends Letters to Registrars with Warning of Intent to Sue
November 7, 2024 - Election Integrity Project®California (EIPCa) sent a “letter of intent to sue” to the Ventura and Sacramento County Registrars of Voters regarding huge integrity breaches in their election management procedures.
Due to the need for Registrars of Voters to take quick action on some of these issues, EIPCa will continue to bring issues of concern directly to the Registrars with the hope that the issue will be quickly addressed.
The letter sent to the Sacramento County Registrar addressed the “Lack of Voter Privacy due to Punched Holes in VBM Ballot Envelope.”
Here is an excerpt from the letter:
EIPCa has been made aware that the Sacramento County Registrar has implemented a procedure that includes sending VBM ballots with a punched-hole in the envelope provided to voters to return their mail-in ballots for the November 2024 general election. This hole allows for some votes to be viewed on the ballot, which should remain sealed within the envelope. Enacting this hole-punching procedure is a clear violation of voters’ rights. Your office has neither addressed why this hole-punching procedure is necessary nor provided education to voters for how to properly place their ballots in the envelope in a manner ensuring anonymity. Your action violates Article II, Section 7, of the California Constitution, which states that, “Voting shall be secret.” Further, your procedure violates the Elections Code, division 19, Chapter 3, Article 1(b)(2), which provides that, “The system shall preserve the secrecy of the ballot.”
Your hole-punching procedure must also comply with the Help America Vote Act, requiring you to provide voter education regarding voter privacy as a requirement for continued receipt of federal funds. (52 U.S.C. § 20902(a).)
To ensure that voters’ rights are protected, and to avoid the time and expense associated with litigation, our office requests that you provide voter education to account for an accurate vote and to preserve voters’ confidentiality.
The letter sent to the Ventura County Registrar addressed “Issues of Concern Regarding Cybersecurity Breaches.”
Here is an excerpt from the letter:
California grants its citizens a statutory right to observe elections, including the right to check and review the preparation and operation of tabulating devices. (Elec. Code §§ 20872 and 20873.) Observers also have the right to ask questions and receive answers regarding the election process and procedures that have been implemented. (Id.)
EIPCa has numerous volunteers that are currently observing the November 2024 election process. Through their careful observation, these workers have noticed several concerning issues regarding how the election has been conducted by your office. In lieu of formal litigation, EIPCa is requesting answers to certain questions and demanding that your office comply with the above-referenced election laws.
The California Constitution provides that “[t]he Legislature shall prohibit improper practices that affect elections.” (Cal. Const., art. II, § 4.) Such improper practices impacting elections involve the connection of voting machines to the internet. Specifically, “A voting system shall comply with all of the following: (a) No part of the voting system shall be connected to the Internet at any time; (b) No part of the voting system shall electronically receive or transmit election data through an exterior communication network, including the public telephone system, if the communication originates from or terminates at a polling place, satellite location, or counting center; (c) No part of the voting system shall receive or transmit wireless communications or wireless data transfers.” (Elec. Code§ 19205(a)-(c).)
The acts requested by EIPCa are only those ministerial acts which are already required of your office. (Devlin v Donnelly (1912) 20 Cal.App. 495, 498.) However, litigation to enforce those duties is costly, time-consuming, and ultimately, may erode trust between the electorate and the elected. EIPCa asks only that you take the above-referenced actions in accordance with California law and in lieu of any further litigation.
Vote Safe and a Little More in 2024 Part 9 – Post Election Details
Tomorrow is the last day of voting - November 5, Election Day!
Here are some ways you can make a difference tomorrow, and in the weeks to follow as ballots are counted:
A well-informed Observer may be able to ask just the right, well-formed question to clarify things for everyone.
From November 6 through December 5, you are needed at the ballot processing centers.
Citizens involved in every aspect of the election process produce a healthy Republic.
Without citizen oversight, Republics are soon lost.
Freedom is only one generation away from extinction.
Let us not be that generation.
Vote Safe and a Little More in 2024 2024 Introduction to the EIPCa Citizen Observer Guidelines November 2024 – Presidential Election
Since 2011, Election Integrity Project®California has researched and documented every aspect of California’s election process and identified how California laws and regulations have transformed a single Election Day into a 60-day election season fraught with easy-to-manipulate procedures.
For 14 years EIPCa-trained Observers and Citizen Observers have submitted tens of thousands of signed affidavits from citizens in 43 out of 58 counties. These documents paint a clear picture of California’s transformation of an election management process that once resembled a vault, nothing in, nothing out except the vote of each eligible citizen, to a system best described as porous.
This documentation has so far allowed EIPCa to instigate
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Santa Clarita, California (June 22, 2021)Click here to download copy of press release-- California’s November 3, 2020 election was marred by significant voting and registration irregularities, according to Election Integrity Project® California, Inc. (EIPCa). The non-partisan organization analyzed the state’s official voter list of February 9, 2021 and reported its findings to California’s Secretary of State Shirley Weber on June 17, 2021. This followed EIPCa reports of 2020 cross-state voting on April 30 and May 18, 2021 that the Secretary has ignored. EIPCa’s June report cites California’s election code that requires officials to provide timely answers to citizens’ questions.
EIPCa seeks answers to the following questions, on behalf of California voters:
| VoteCal Database Date | # Counties with Registrations Exceeding # Eligible Citizens | Total Ineligible Registrations |
| March 2020 | 11 | 1,063,957 |
| February 2021 | 23 | 1,834,789 (+72% since 3/20) |
“Many in the nation are questioning the validity of the 2020 general election in their states”, said EIPCa President Linda Paine. “Mass irregularities in California’s registration and voting numbers continue to erode voter confidence here and we are hopeful Secretary Weber will immediately address our questions.”
