SVCAF Calls for Santa Clara Voters to Oppose Unjustified Voting Adjudication

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SVCAF Calls for Santa Clara Voters to Oppose Unjustified Voting Adjudication

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dec 04, 2022

A group of Santa Clara citizens contacted the Registrar of Voters of Santa Clara County (SCCROV) during 2022 election season, and they have discovered and confirmed with SCCROV that all the under votes are being manually adjudicated.

Below is a summary of the discovery, by Mr. Ronald J. Meyer.

Are You OK with the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters Second Guessing Your Vote?
For the last three years, a Group of Santa Clara County Citizens and I have been Citizen Observers of the Ballot Processing and Vote Tabulation Processes at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters (SCCROV). We have discovered during our observations that the SCCROV unilaterally has made the executive decision to suspend and manually “Adjudicate and Determine the Voter’s Intent” for Under-Votes on all Voters’ Mail-In and Vote-in-Person Ballots.
The SCCROV’s actions are especially egregious for the In-Person Voter who fills out a paper ballot and scans their ballot using the ICP scanner/tabulator machine. The scanner allows the Voter to review their voting choices on its LCD screen. The ICP scanner/tabulator machine informs the Voter of an under-vote condition. It provides the Voter option to confirm or redo their choices. In this case, manually Adjudicating a ballot when the Voter has confirmed their vote in person on the machine is clearly unacceptable.
The SCCROV’s actions are in Violation of California Election Code Section 19101, California Code Regulation 20982, California Voting System Standard Section 3.2.2.2 and 3.2.2.3 and other relevant election codes and laws. The SCCROV’s unilateral decision violates Voters’ Constitutional Rights to choose not to vote for a particular ballot contest without interference. It creates the opportunity for the Voter’s vote to be tampered with and changed without the Voter’s knowledge.
Federal, State and Local laws do not grant the SCCROV the right to review and suspend Voters’ ballots before tabulating their votes. The SCCROV’s “Adjudication” process to determine Voter Intent when the Voter’s Intent by No Vote decisions are clear on their ballots. The ROV’s actions deprive all Santa Clara County Voters of their Constitutional and Civil Rights to a safe, secure, private and accurate voting process.
An Under-Vote is defined as a No Vote. The Voter decides not to vote for any of the Candidates running in one or more contests, or Proposition and Referendum Measures, by not marking the ballot accordingly. Also, when there are multiple candidates running in a contest, such as in School Board, State and County Judicial Offices, City and Town Council contests and the ballot instructs the Voter to vote for two, three, four or five and the Voter votes for less than the number instructed for the contest.
As Concerned Santa Clara County Citizens, we are alerting All Santa Clara County Voters to contact the Santa Clara County ROV and demand that they cease and desist the Adjudication process for under votes for any future elections, and especially fix the vote tabulating for this 2022 election.
Ronald J. Meyer, 11/03/2022

Silicon Valley Chinese Association Foundation firmly supports this cause, to make sure Santa Clara’s citizen’s voice get heard by SCCROV and resolve any election code violation issues.

SVCAF calls for every Santa Clara voter to send petition letter to urge SCCROV to stop the manual adjudication process for under votes. If you are a Santa Clara voter, please follow these steps:

Download this petition letter (PDF)
Print and sign it wet (sign on paper)
Mail it to our dedicated PO BOX:
- Alice Kao, P.O. Box 10472，San Jose, CA 95157
- (Our volunteer will send it to SCCROV in batches. This is to have a final count on how many signed petition letters have been sent to SCCROV for any further legal actions).
Click this link and fill in the survey to help our volunteers for progress.

Please help spread the word, and collect more signatures. The follow-up updates will be posted on this page as well, so please do visit this page from time to time.

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