Electoral College Initiative is Running out of Time

by: sdpolitico

Mon Dec 03, 2007 at 22:50:01 PM PST

(This thing is starting to make more sense to me. There is a firm deadline to make the June ballot, January 24. Secretary of State Bowen recommended an early deadline because local election boards basically have no time to do all the random counting needed to qualify the initiative. By missing that deadline the dirty tricksters risk missing the June ballot, as election boards must ramp up for the February 5 primary and that takes priority. The SacBee article is one of the first to inform what's really going on here. - promoted by David Dayen)

The SacBee is reporting tonight that State Election officials are saying that backers of the California electoral college initiative are at risk of missing the June ballot. Election officials said it will be difficult to finish counting the signatures in time for the January 24th state deadline.[Link]

Despite a recommendation from Secretary of State Debra Bowen that the proponents submit the signatures to the counties three weeks ago, they have yet to submit the necessary signatures. Supporters of the initiative need 433,971 signatures to qualify for the ballot. They are aiming at collecting 700,000 signature to ensure that they have enough to qualify for the ballot.[Link]

Supporters originally the aimed at turning the in the signatures by Friday December 1st. They received a late infusion of cash when the Orange County Lincoln Club made a $100,000 contribution to the initiative effort.[Link] The Republican political consultant Dave Gilliard, who is heading up the effort to qualify the initiative for the ballot, didn't return phones repeated phones calls to the SacBee on Monday.[Link]

Cross posted on San Diego Politico

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CA Electoral College Initiative Fraud

by: OldCoastie

Sun Nov 18, 2007 at 07:16:24 AM PST

(The "food for signatures" tactic is especially damning. - promoted by Robert in Monterey)

Original post at Daily Kos

Vikingkingq published an excellent diary here and Calitics on Wednesday and a follow-up on Thursday about this issue. I too ran into the same tactics he described at UCSB here in Orange County on Thursday afternoon.

It appears there was a statewide effort by the company collecting the signatures to hide what they were doing. Reports of this tactic have come from Davis, Santa Barbara, Berkeley and Orange County. The story that keeps coming out is that petitioners approached registered voter, made their pitch to get a signature for the children's cancer hospital initiative and then asked the voter to "sign multiple copies".

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It Really Is a GOP Steal the State Plot

by: cstrait

Tue Nov 06, 2007 at 15:17:01 PM PST

Today's filing by California Counts confirms what we knew--the California Republican Party has pumped money into this Steal the State Plot. California Counts first financial report shows that the CRP, in fact, is the largest contributor thus far ($80,000).

http://cal-access.so...

While, $539,000 is a far cry from the millions needed to qualify the initiative, the report does prove that the GOP is seriously trying to quailify it.

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