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Selected Comments on California Laws and Regulations

On California vote counting rules, (hand counts, recounts, 1% audits):

Proposed rules in May, July, 2023; Dec 2021

·       2022-01-24 comments from 8 people

·       2023-07-05 comments from 6 people, 4 organizations, Lutz

·       2023-07-17 comments from 5 people

2023-08-07 responses by Sec of State

Final counting rules have not been published, though response above shows they’ll be like the July 2023 version. They are supposed to be in chapters 4.5 to 4.8 of California rules CCR, title 2, division 7, which are not yet listed there or here. The old vote-counting standards still appear in in chapter 8.3.

On California observer rules:

 

Proposed rules in May, July, Sept, Dec, 2023; Jan 2024

·       2023-06-16 comments from 15 people

·       2023-11-13 comments from 10 people

·       2023-12-20 comments from 6 people and 9 people

Final adopted observation rules

County plans for observation

Ventura Superior Court order denying close observation 2020-09-15

On California risk-limiting audits (RLA), 2021:

2021 rules by state, for comment: July, or August, or Sept compared to July, or Sept compared to baseline, And reasons given in July and Sept.

Aug 5-6 comments from VoteWell and Citizens' Oversight Projects and Branscomb and Orange County and Stark and Verified Voting

August 15-16 comments from VoteWell and  Citizens' Oversight Projects and Branscomb and Stark and Verified Voting

Asking for RLA of 9/14/21 recall election, letters Sept 2-3, 2021 from NVRTF and experts; Sept 10 from Citizens' Oversight+NVRTF

Comments on September version Oct 11 from 18 people and Sept. 4 from Korb

Final adopted RLA rules