Sample #1
Powerful
or Foolish?
Last week our California Secretary of State, Debra
Bowen, was awarded the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award for
her decision to limit the use of direct-recording electronic voting
machines despite resistance by voting system vendors and many county
elections officials. This award has been called the Nobel Prize for
public officials. I would like to ask a rhetorical question to other
public officials - the California County Elections Officials. Do you
feel powerful or do you feel foolish? After maligning, resisting, and
some of you even suing the Secretary of State for doing her job, are
you proud to be one of the people that someone gets an award for
resisting? Many of us hope that this award will open your eyes to the
real enemy - unethical vendors such as Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia
who sold you incredibly expensive voting systems with poor quality,
reliability, and security.
Sample #2
(This was published in the Oakland Tribune prior to the February 5th election. Please do not copy verbatim.)
Our Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, swore an oath to do her duty and she takes it seriously. Her duty is to ensure safe and accurate elections. What is not her duty is to have fast election results or make life easier for county elections officials
Instead, elections officials in three counties are suing her, wasting taxpayer dollars, for doing her duty. Instead of headlines boasting “California leading the way to secure elections,” we hear time after time, “Election results delayed.”
Stop the misinformation campaign, stop the waste of money. We want our election results right, not right away.