Sad but True wrote on Aug 11, 2007 10:17 PM:These illegal meetings go on in every city I have visited. Until the State Attorney General empowers the District Attorneys to prosecute this behavior, it will continue.

Ward wrote on Aug 12, 2007 9:34 AM:Say "NO" to the Granite Quarry!!!

Brendan wrote on Aug 12, 2007 11:59 AM:We need to run a candidate against Supervisor Stone in the next election. The people have been trying to educate him on electronic voting for years, yet he has willfully remained ignorant on the issue, at best... At worse, he may have more sinister motives for consistently backing a corporation against the people and their democratic process.

Pretty Weak, PJ wrote on Aug 12, 2007 2:17 PM:Art Cassel - local Left Winger and darling of the Air America audience (all 3 of them) - filing a complaint alleging this, alleging that. This hasn't been the first time he's done this - nor will it be the last - so if this is your idea of a "startling development", it's no wonder you Democrats are in such desperation. As far as email evidence, Lauritzen can cite the "Bowen Doctrine" and claim that his email electrons were hacked and can't be trusted because the words weren't originally registered on paper and therefore have no transparency. Can you prove it didn't happen, Jacobs?

To Ward wrote on Aug 12, 2007 2:23 PM:I'm sorry to break the news to you, but somebody hacked your blog and changed it to record on somebody else's column. This is indisputable proof that DRE's are corrupt! It has nothing to do with individuals doing things that are totally lacking in common sense and basic intelligence.

Brendan wrote on Aug 12, 2007 3:17 PM:Pretty Weak, Why are people like yourself so insistent on being willfully ignorant about the way electronic voting machines work. All I ask is that you take some time to research it. You will find that there are hundreds of more ways for voting machines to be manipulated than with paper ballots. And with voting machines it is more difficult if not impossible to track the fraud, and it can be done in substantially greater numbers with greater ease. All I have to do is sign up to host a precinct location and I would have all the access to the machines I needed to add up votes to come out however I wanted. This is only one way of doing this... there are about 499 others. Please read up on the topic before you defend a system you are very ignorant of just because you may disagree with Paul's politics. This is not a partisan issue.

Art wrote on Aug 13, 2007 2:48 AM:"Brendan!" Sadly, you're wasting your time responding to the likes of "Pretty Weak." He's merely trolling. Had he spent half the time on research that he did beating his keyboard during his tiny fisted tantrum, he would have discovered the following. 1) I'm not local to the SW County. 2) My involvement with electronic voting grew out of my supporting a Republican candidate against a liberal Supervisor. 3) I don't listen to, nor have I ever been on Air America. To the best of my knowledge, I've never even been mentioned on it. Isn't Air America also the CIA cover for Reagan's Iran-Contra escapade that was flying out of Clinton's Mena, Arkansas airport? 4) Lauritzen is the one that exposed the serial meeting. Lauritzen's defense that "Pretty Weak" came up with, essentially requires Lauritzen to call himself a liar. One can only wonder what well "Pretty Weak" draws his information from. Obviously Fox News and Rush Limbaugh muddy the waters with too many liberal "real facts" for him. I have to sign off now and go meet with my Air America Fan Club (All 3 of them)

PW wrote on Aug 13, 2007 8:57 AM:Art, why don't you just claim you're not local because you don't live in my neighborhood? Riverside County is local enough, and I presume that applies. If the liberal media is using you as a poster child without your knowledge and approval, I'd be upset. Too bad the NCT didn't post my blog from last night in which I clarified my position - I worked my tiny fists to the bone on that one.

GeGeGeGeGeGe wrote on Aug 13, 2007 5:28 PM:Funny. I smell a rat, or rats. Why are some of our supervisors so darned loyal to Sequoia? Hmmm, maybe because Sequoia has been very, very loyal to them. In the face of all we now know about these machines, why are they hanging on to them for dear life? Maybe because they own their political "victories" to those who they steered tens of millions. HiHo, HiHo it's time that they must go......

Conservative Guy wrote on Aug 13, 2007 9:51 PM:Art, I'm a conservative and not sure if you are a liberal or what. I do think you have a very valid point here. I would guess that it must be very common practive for these supervisors to "talk" to each other on e-mail about issues. It is not legal, but I'm sure they do it all the time. You got them on this one. Don't let it go. I would request non-employee/employer issues for the past year (copies of their e-mails to one another). I'll bet their computers have a group e-mail to each other. I'm sure it's not for lunch dates.....oops! That would be illegal too. I bet they follow most of the rules in public, but certainly not behind closed doors. Keep up the good work "liberal" or not.

Work of Art wrote on Aug 13, 2007 10:23 PM:Thanks Art. Sock it to 'em.

Art Attack wrote on Aug 14, 2007 3:02 PM:Art. I hope you give them supervisors an "Art Attack!" At this point, does it matter if one is a liberal or a conservative? Our county has a big problem, actually close to five. A few of these men seem ok most of the time, but the others serve themselves and their own interest all of the time. It's refreshing to see a newspaper like the NCT boldly report on these issues. The main reason Riverside County is so corrupt is that the "downtown" paper is so impotent. The Supress Enterprise!

Hey Guys wrote on Aug 14, 2007 10:22 PM:Dave, Ray, how ya boy's do'in? Your machines are goin' down the river! I think you're strapped to them. Grab a lifeline and abandon ship.