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On May 26, 2016, at 6:18 AM, Bob Mulholland <<a href="mailto:chicobob@msn.com" target="_blank">chicobob@msn.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">May 26, 2016</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">To: Secretary of State Alex Padilla</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16pt"> Fax: <a href="tel:916-653-1458" value="+19166531458" target="_blank">916-653-1458</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">From: Bob Mulholland</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16pt"> <a href="mailto:chicobob@msn.com" target="_blank">
chicobob@msn.com</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">CC. Legislative Election Committees</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16pt"> Media</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">I am writing to state my opposition to SB 450 - a bill that would close 90% of our polling places. If there are some election "experts," telling you that the reason that 10.3 million registered voters did
not vote in the November 2014 election, was because there were not 1,151 Voting Centers, ask them - well how did 13.7 million in 11/08; 10.3 million in 11/10 and 13.2 million voters in 11/12 cast ballots without Voting Centers?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">California has almost 25,000 polling sites and over 50% of the ballots are voted on or dropped off at those polling sites. Most voters finalize their ballots in the last 5 days. The 25,000 "Voting Centers"
are in their neighborhoods. You close 90% of them and what do people do? Use a GPS system to find a drop off site 10 miles away, with sunset before 5PM? And if a person walks to their polling place? In urban areas, sending thousands of cars to a Voting Center
on Election Day, should require an EIR.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">Starbucks has over 2,000 sites in Ca. They would never think of closing 90% of them.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">My suggestion - the SOS office should focus on expediting and improving the data from the DMV office to the County Election offices. It has had problems since Motor Voter was implemented in 1995. Also,
the SOS office should figure out why some counties validate over 90% of Provisional ballots while other counties are in the low 80% and some in the 70%. What's up with that?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">See memo below with additional information. And I have my surveys from many November General Elections from the 58 counties about VBM, Provisionals and where and when ballots are dropped off or arrive in
the mail.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">April 6, 2016</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:16pt">55.2% of the Voters, November 4, 2014, Went to the 24,435 Polls on Election Day but Democrats Planning to Close over 23,000 of them, Which Will Reduce Turnout of Minorities
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<p><b><span style="font-size:16pt">Who Don't Have a Uber Driver or a Google Driverless Car to Take them to a Voting Center</span></b></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">This is an updated memo that I had sent into the Capitol on June 23, 2015.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">SB 450 SHOULD BE TITLED- AN ACT TO CLOSE 24,000 VOTING SITES ON ELECTION DAY!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">In the election of 11/4/14, 55.2% (4,148,670) of the total voters (7,513,972) went to a polling station on Election Day. That includes the 2,966,267 precinct voters and 1,182,403 voters (26% of the total
VBM) who dropped off their VBM ballot at their polling site. For example, 96,442 ballots were walked into polling sites in Los Angeles County on Election Day and millions of others arrived in the mail in the final 5 days.
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">For comparison, November 2012 had a total of 13,202,158 voters, including 6,448,470 precinct (48.8% of total) and assume the same 26% of VBM voters dropped off their ballot at their polling site, that means
1,755,959 for a total of 8,204,429, meaning on average, 335 voters went to each polling site (24,491 total), thus, 62.1% of the voters went to their polling site.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">There were 24,435 polling sites in California in November 2014, so on average 170 voters went to their local polling site.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">In November 2014, on average, a CD had 461 polling sites in California, a SD had 611 polling sites and an AD had 306 polling sites.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">If the whole state created Voting centers at 15,000 registered voter per site, it would mean 17,259,413 registered voters, divided by 15,000 = 1,151 Voting Centers which breaks down to 22 per CD, 28 per
SD and 14 per AD.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">In reality, Senator Kevin de Leon's SD 24, with just 363,498 (1/5/16) registered voters would have only 24, where people could either vote or drop off their VBM ballot. At the same time SD 26 (Ben Allen,
coastal district) with 592,504 registered voters would have 40 Voting Centers.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">CD 21 (Valadao) with only 204,713 registered voters would have 14 spread out over 4 counties, while CD 33 (Lieu) with 457,242 registered voters would have 31 on the west side of LA.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">AD 32 (Salas Jr.) with only 131,272 registered voters would have 9 while AD 50 (Bloom) with 304,809 would have 21.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">LA County (4.9 million registered voters), in November 2014 had 5,027 polling sites. Reducing it to 327 Voting Centers, would reduce the already low turnout. Remember, that November 2014, 55.2% of all votes
cast were at the election day polling sites.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">The high registration districts are mostly higher educated, higher income, majority white and with cars, while low registration districts have large minority communities and fewer vehicles.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">Is the proposed law going to provide free parking or valet parking in San Francisco and Los Angeles? In urban areas with almost no parking, many voters can walk to their polling site. If 90% of polling
locations are closed, how do 55% of the voters get to a polling site on Election Day? Will this bill provide funding for 100,000 plus Uber drivers?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">Think of November 6, 2018, sunset is about 4:45PM and millions of Californians go to their regular polling place, after work and might see a sign- Your Poll Closed- drive 3 miles to XXX Main St., on the
other side of the freeway to vote and with Murphy's Law there would not even be signs up at many locations. Never assume 100% of voters will conclude one week out where to vote or that every voter has a car with a GPS system. This would be discriminatory against
hundreds of thousands of low income (many minorities) and lead to many of them just going home.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">And does this legislation, that allows only one polling site per 15,000 registered voters, possibly create a situation where 2 polling sites with a total of 30,000 registered voters would be at the same
location? Take the extreme of CD 21 with 14 polling sites on Election Day in 4 counties.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">Have these bills been run by:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">A. Voting Right experts D. Attorneys for the Disabled communities</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">B. Civil Rights attorneys E. The US Justice Department</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">C. Political consultants</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">No one should depend just on the Capitol "review process." They missed the property tax explosion in 1977-78; missed the Three Strikes movement; voted unanimously for electricity deregulation (concocted
by Maggie Thatcher, Pete Wilson, Enron, Steve Peace, Jim Brulte etc.) costing CA consumers over $20 billion and gave us the Top Two,which has added millions of dollars to campaigns and given many voters a choice of only two candidates from the same Party,
leading to 3rd Party registered voters dropping out from voting.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">If the Republicans introduced a bill to reduce the number of polling sites in minority districts by 90%, most of us would be blasting the Republicans.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">And once California starts closing thousands of polling sites, we will not be able to go back, since many of the experienced poll workers will be hard to bring back.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">Let's be clear about the technology at a Voting Center that would allow a voter in LA County to walk into one of 327 Centers (with multiple options of languages?), it will break down. The Federal government
with billions of dollars and top "experts" did not realize for almost a year that allegedly the Chinese military had hacked into their computers. The Federal government had well over a year to set up the computer programs for the Affordable Care Act (broke
down immediately). The US Visa program to allow foreigners into the US for jobs, weddings, etc. - hardware problem for weeks last year crippled the program and the Feds have millions of dollars and the "Best & Brightest" running these programs.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">The private sector, Target, big banks etc. have all been hacked into. When vendors show the latest technology, it is with the guys who built the system. Take that same system and hand it over to "Volunteer"
poll workers and imagine what happens when a glitch (Murphy’s' Law) happens. In Orange County they were handing out the wrong Access numbers with an Assembly race for another district from 7AM till early afternoon, when someone finally "noticed," (LA Times
March 6, 2004). Last year, United Airlines shut down all flights for a couple of hours- computer glitches. Go to
<a href="http://VotersUnite.org" target="_blank">VotersUnite.org</a> to see voting mistake after voting mistake.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">California should focus on making sure CalVoter is fully functionally and operating, develop some helpful hints for the new VBM law (postmark by election day and received by Friday, except this November,
it will be Monday, 11/14/16) and counting VBM and Provisional ballots and election day registration, without radically changing the election day infrastructure. For years, people have been asking - can't the SOS Office have more than one person to investigate
and prosecute those who fill out voter registration cards with phony names or tricking Democrats to reregister as Republicans (sign the initiative scam). Let's reduce that criminal activity and hire some "Sheriffs."</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">Bob Mulholland</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16pt">Chico, CA</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16pt"><a href="mailto:chicobob@msn.com" target="_blank">chicobob@msn.com</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16pt">cell <a href="tel:916-996-8666" value="+19169968666" target="_blank">916-996-8666</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">P.S. -- We were all against that Texas case at the US Supreme Court, that would only count citizens or registered voters for redistricting, which we just won, so we can't turn around and say it is okay
to limit polling locations, because a lot of immigrants, who became citizens, but not yet registered to vote, should not be counted in allocating polling sites.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">P.P.S. -- New Hampshire, the first Primary in presidential races, has Election Day registration (as a result of that, they got grandfathered out of Motor Voter). As important, there are many polling places
at schools and some are closed for Election Day and others that are open, gives the parent, picking up a child at school, the option to vote then. The schools have big parking lots and NH is a rural state so most voters have vehicles to get around. That is
not the case in California with limited parking and many without a vehicle.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">The turnout in the November 1918 Governor election was only 59.4%. It was never that low again till the Governor race in November 1942 (59.3%) but it was a war then, like in 1918. The next Governor race
that was that low was in November 1986 (59.4%) and the pattern has continued with: 1990 (58.6%); 1994 (60.5% - Prop. 187); 1998 (57.6%); 2002 (50.6%); 2006 (56.2%); 2010 (59.6%) and in November 2014, a record low with only a 42.2% turnout. From 1986 thru 2010
the turnouts were between 56.2% to 60.5%, except the 2002 election between Governor Davis and Bill Simon with a 50.6% turnout - a boring race.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">So while the number of people voting by mail increases, it has not led to increases in turnout. VBM has moved some regular precinct voters to VBM ballots.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">In the presidential election of November 2008 there were 13,743,11 votes cast with 41.6% by mail (79.4% turnout) and in November 2012, there were 13,202,158 votes cast with 51.6% by mail (72.4% turnout).
People voted for a "Cause."</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">According to the County reports, not only were 26% of the VBM ballots dropped off at polling locations (11/14) but about half came in during the last week. The roughly 50% of VBM voters who mailed their
ballot in, before a week out, used a stamp. The 50% who wait till the final days, use the time to decide on those final races (local candidates and measures, etc.). None of these people needed a Voting Center and certainly the 08 and 12 voters, 13 million
plus each time figured it out. And 74% of VBM voters already have a "Voting Center," it is a 49 cent stamp.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">In June 1978 the turnout was 68.9% (Prop 13 was the motivation) and that November the turnout was 70.4%</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">The US Census updated for 2014 Hispanics</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">California 14,589,740</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">Colorado 1,108,664</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">Oregon 457,147</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">In November 2010 and in 2014, Colorado had very competitive Governor and US Senate elections. The turnout in November, 2010 was 73.5%. In November 2014 , with Voting Centers, the turnout was 56.9%, a drop
of 16.6 points. In California the turnout in 2010, with Governor & US Senate elections, was 59.6%. In November 2014, with no US Senate election and not really a Governor election (11/2/14 poll - 42% of likely voters did not know that Jerry Brown was running
for reelection), the turnout was 42.2%, thus a drop of 17.4 points. So both states had the same drop off.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">And oh yes, Colorado, unlike California, had candidates from 6 political parties on the ballot.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">These massive change proposals of automatic VBM ballots, automatically registering residents as Declines, eliminating 90% of our 25,000 polling locations, Sample ballots by email instead of in the regular
mail, creating Voting Centers, many without free parking should not be adopted based on Colorado. Put them out for study around the state, ask Community Leaders if they want 9 out of every 10 polling locations closed, meet with people who do elections on
the ground, etc.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt">California residents are not Ozzie & Harriet!</span></p>
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