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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'>To: BCC List in Mendocino County<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'>Due to the slowness of our antique manual and semi-automated election systems, our local Mendocino County election results are not yet certified. Indeed, local individual in rural areas of the county who deposited their ballots properly report (in numerous emails copied to me) that they have no official record that their ballots have even been received and counted. <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'>Tomorrow is a week after the election. County election results cannot yet be certified. Nothing local is official yet!<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'>For those ballot proposals that require minimum voter approval, for example all local tax proposals and local ordinances, it is premature for anyone to declare victory until the vote is officially certified by the County.<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'>We need better trustworthy election systems in California!<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><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Lawrence Rosen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:black'>Rosenlaw (</span><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.rosenlaw.com/"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#0563C1'>www.rosenlaw.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:black'>) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:black'>3001 King Ranch Rd., Ukiah, CA 95482<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:black'>Cell: 707-478-8932 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:black'>This email is licensed under </span><span style='color:black'><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#0563C1'>CC-BY-4.0</span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:black'>. Please copy freely.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <img border=0 width=89 height=31 style='width:.9236in;height:.3263in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01D23E84.97CA7A00" alt="https://licensebuttons.net/l/by/4.0/88x31.png"></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>