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By Linda Bagneschi Dorrance
January 18, 2008--This message is going out to folks interested in election integrity issues in Marin County.
It's time to sign up to be election observers for the upcoming Feb. 5 primary election. Transparency and public observation are critical to ensure open and honest elections. Please let me know your availability to observe during any of the following times, even just a few hours or so. I can provide you with guidelines, if that helps. Note: The elections office is closed weekends, so no observers are needed on the weekends.
Secretary of State Debra Bowen will be the keynote speaker at a public forum on election reform on Saturday, September 15, at 7:00pm at the College of Marin.
The forum is titled Bring Democracy Home: Election Reforms That Empower Voters.
Click here to see the display ad, and download publicity materials here.
September 7, 2007 -- The September 5 Novato Advance includes this article about a Novato resident who wants the city to switch from a council elected at large to one elected from districts.
District proponent Gary Scheppke argues that the current system results in too many council members from one part of town and too few from another part of town. He may well be right, but there's a much better solution to this problem.
May 25, 2007 -- Lowell Finley, Deputy Secretary of State for Voting Systems Certification and Policy, will speak at the first annual community meeting of the Marin County Election Advisory Committee on June 21. For details, see this calendar page.
By Bob Richard
May 18, 2007 -- In his blog entry for May 14, Marin Independent Journal columnist Brad Breithaupt writes, "Voters -- not politicians -- should be writing the rules when it comes to regulating political campaigns. Instead of a voters-up approach, the county has chosen a supervisors-down strategy."
From Brad Breithaupt's column in the Marin Independent Journal for November 4, 2006:
Cat Woods is a longshot to win Tuesday's race for Marin's seat in the state Assembly.
But the Green Party nominee won an endorsement from the Marin Peace and Justice Coalition, a progressive organization that boasts a mailing list of 1,500.
Coalition members were evenly split between Woods, a Novato writer, and front-running Democrat Jared Huffman, whose liberal stands on many issues are aligned with many coalition members, said Jim Geraghty of San Rafael, one of the group's leaders.
Woods won the endorsement because of her strong support for "ranked voting" election reform where voters, instead of casting their vote for one candidate, rank their choices.
September 28, 2006 - Jared Huffman, Democratic Party candidate for State Assembly from the 6th district, met with Marin Ranked Voting activists on September 27 and endorsed our call to give all local jurisdictions the ability to use ranked voting in their elections.
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