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SAN DIEGO – For the first time in a while, voting in San Diego seemed to go smoothly. During Tuesday's balloting, there was no question of whether people remembered to fill in a bubble when writing in a name. There were no computer glitches to frustrate workers.The troubleshooters whom the San Diego County Registrar of Voters had standing by didn't have much to do."We have a whole troubleshooting hotline where people are sitting very quiet," said Registrar Mikel Haas, about a hour before voting concluded.Even a power outage in Mira Mesa didn't stop the vote scanners, which have back-up batteries....

Look at this:The Diebold GEMS central tabulator contains a stunning security holeSubmitted by Bev HarrisThu, 08/26/2004 Issue: Manipulation technique found in the Diebold central tabulator -- 1,000 of these systems are in place, and they count up to two million votes at a time. By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date...

Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:05:49 -0700 From: jmarch@prodigy.net Subject: Update: AB1044 (we won so far...) The California Senate Public Safety Committee hearing on AB1044 happened yesterday (June 10th). We won. After three days of minimal sleep I came home and passed out, hence this update is late. Prior to the hearing, in discussions with the bill's proponents in the hall I was told that arguing that I needed access to the central Cal-DOJ records for easy access to a single source of Public Records Act Requests would "cost me credibility." As it turned out, it wasn't my credibility at...

NEWS RELEASE Second Amendment Foundation 12500 NE Tenth Place Bellevue, WA 98005 CALIFORNIA DOJ SPONSORS BILL TO MASK CORRUPTION AND RACISM, SAYS FOUNDATION For Immediate Release: BELLEVUE, WA - California Assembly Bill 1044 is part of a deliberate effort to conceal massive wrongdoing in the handling of Concealed Weapons (CCW) permit applications across California, including wrongful actions on the part of state Attorney General Bill Lockyer, the founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) said today. "SAF has received complaints from our members in California for years that the gun permit issuance system is being handled improperly," said SAF founder...

Background:Jim March is a fighter for equal access to the right to conceal carry in California. After having been denied a CCW permit by his local sheriff, he filed a suit in Federal court based on equal protections. He alleged that the sheriff was using uneven criteria for issueing permits, that only large contributors, politicians and the well connected received permits while the average men and women were routinely rejected. He began to subpeona documents detailing all the CCWs issued in his county. The documents confirmed his suspicions, but the trial judge refused to beleive that such widespread corruption existed...

<p>Jim March is a self-described "gun nut," frustrated because the Contra Costa County Sheriff's office won't give him a concealed-weapons permit.</p> <p>The towering redhead from Pittsburg has taken his beef with the sheriff over the permit to federal court, saying county Sheriff Warren Rupf and a few police chiefs in 2000 violated his constitutional rights.</p>