#fairelections – INDIVISIBLE VENTURA

Ventura County Board of Supervisors meeting on July 23rd and a whole slew of appearances at a city council meeting near you!

Wednesday, July 17, 6:30 PM Moorpark City Hall
Monday, July 22, 6:30 PM Simi Valley City Hall
Tuesday, July 23, 8:30 AM Tuesday, County Board of Supervisors, County of Ventura Hall of Administration
Tuesday, July 23, 6:00 PM Ojai City Hall
Tuesday, July 30, 6:00 PM Oxnard City Hall
Wednesday, August 7, 6:30PM Santa Paula City Hall

“Election Denial poses an ongoing threat to U.S. democracy.”

Trump’s lies about his loss in 2020 has spawned a whole eco-system of right-wing election-deniers, from self-certified armchair “experts,” to county and state officials who are delaying or withholding certifications of election results. He’s apparently chosen his vice president based on his willingness to ignore the Constitution and overthrown a federal election if necessary.

Election politics have gotten so dysfunctional, that a Republican official in Nevada, bowing to pressure from her party, actually refused to certify the election she won! By a large margin! Even after the recount demanded by her challenger showed the results were correct!

Ventura County is no exception to coordinated and well-funded election denier pressure.

(See Restore the Vote Ventura’s (RTVV) demands and County Counsel’s responses here)

(See United Sovereign Americans’ (USA) highly decorative demands here)

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Groups are looking for volunteers to photo/video poll tapes across the country.

Updated Nov. 1, 2020 – Revision of participating organizations.

This isn’t such a huge issue for us here in Ventura County. Not only are we doing a mail-in election because of the pandemic, in-person voters are using paper ballots that get placed into ballot boxes, just like in your 6th grade election for class president. (But that doesn’t mean you can’t help other precincts…)

Other CA counties do have poll tapes, and states are still using machines proven to cause serious problems. How serious?
Gore vs. Bush serious. Kemp vs. Abrams serious.

Bennie Smith, a financial software developer in Shelby County, Tennessee, which includes Memphis, was contacted by a candidate after losing an election they felt they should have won in their majority Black and Democratic district. However, for years, the winning candidates were overwhelmingly white and Republican. Who was electing these people?