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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>To California Association of Voting Officials ("CAVO") <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> (with BCC to some Mendocino County citizens):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I have been working on other legal issues besides our CAVO open source election systems. Specifically, here in California and Mendocino County, I have been supporting reasonable and effective cannabis laws. Prop 64 passed! Personally, "Yeah!"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>What I now discover is that our own local Mendocino County election systems aren't working. We can't tell if votes from local citizens were recorded. The local voter phone verification system also is dead so we can't even verify that our votes were received. I'm sure it wasn't just cannabis votes that are uncounted! Maybe our president-elect's votes were miscounted too!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Politics is both local and national. Voting is both local and national. See my "local" email copied below, below which I copy some local complaints about the cannabis votes of "small rural farmers" who must vote by mail.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I am copying this email in BCC to our Board of Supervisors, County Executive, County Assessor Clerk Recorder, and the local County Counsel. If we don't keep complaining to them they might think we don't care about voting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>/Larry <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Regardless of voter choices, I am a zealot for accurate and complete vote counts. I serve on the board of the California Association of Voting Officials ("CAVO"). This is some of what I spend my time doing as an attorney when I am not agitating for reasonable cannabis laws. What I read here bothers me!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>I have previously written to our Board of Supervisors, County Executive, County Assessor-Clerk Recorder, and the County Counsel about electronic voting systems that will solve these citizen rights issues. I advised them specifically that the California Secretary of State, as well as San Francisco and Los Angeles counties, are already funding open source voting software that we can eventually use to solve our own Mendocino County problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>They have completely ignored my emails. Typical!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Should this issue become my new pro bono Mendocino County legal effort now that the cannabis issues here are "settled"? Can I help ensure that our votes count?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>/Larry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>***********<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> Genine Coleman<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 12, 2016 10:21 AM<br><b>To:</b> <br><b>Subject:</b> Re: check on your ballot for AF<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Indeed. I called both numbers. Same experience. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>This is yet another component of Mendocino County voter disenfranchisement, along with the fact that there are only a little over 30 polling stations open for one of the geographically largest counties in Ca, forcing our rural voting population to vote by mail. Of 51,000 registered voters, 40,000 requested vote by mail ballots! <br><br>Then there is the press and even one of our electeds, 3rd district supervisor John McCowan incorrectly stating publicly that AF has failed by large margin, having only counted 12k votes that were predominately from these 30 polling stations, mostly located in towns. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>This is systematic disenfranchisement of the rural voters of Mendocino County, and who lives in these areas? Growers and AF supporter!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>What are we going to do about this? Who wants to step up and be a voter observer while they count our County's precious 2/3 of remaining votes?!?!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Lets flood the County Assessor-Clerk Recorder's office with calls and let them know their phone numbers to check absentee ballot status are dead, and we demand they fix the problem! 707-234-6800<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Genine Coleman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>BrainBloom Cannabis Education & Advocacy <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Measure AF Campaign Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><br>Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><br>On Nov 12, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Mary Pat Palmer wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Note: </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Called both of these at 8 AM. No answer for the 234 number - just rang and rang. The 800 number plus 4371 reached a recording that said the number was incorrect or disconnected. I'll try again on Monday.<br>The URL link does work & I used that successfully. ~ Mary Pat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Dear Supporters of Measure AF:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Here are the specific ways we can check on our absentee ballots and also let them know we are watching:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>by email: <a href="http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/acr/vbm.htm" target="_blank">http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/acr/vbm.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>by phone, or with questions: "If you have any questions, please call 707-234-6819 or outside Ukiah area call 1-800-992-5441, when prompted, please enter 4371."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Here's the message I got when I checked mine: "Ballot for <i>Judith Thilman</i> has been mailed but not received in return." I will call. :)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>jude, for Measure AF<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Jude Thilman<br>Bhutan<sup>TM</sup>/Dragonfly Wellness Center<sup>TM</sup><br>17851 North Highway 1<br>Fort Bragg, CA 95437<br>707.962.0890<br><a href="http://Bhutanwellbeing.org">Bhutanwellbeing.org</a><br><a href="http://Dragonflywellness.org">Dragonflywellness.org</a></span></i></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>