LAT: (CA Secretary of State) Shelley Fires 15 Voter Consultants

[DeepModem Mom]

Shelley Fires 15 Voter Consultants
The embattled secretary of state acts as a U.S. agency threatens an audit to see how he spent millions of dollars in federal election funds.

By Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO — Threatened with a federal audit of California's election spending, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley said Friday that he was firing 15 voter-outreach consultants to prevent the use of federal money for partisan political purposes.

In a letter to federal Election Assistance Commission Chairman DeForest Soaries Jr. on Thursday, Shelley also warned that a continuing state freeze of $2.1 million in federal voter-education funds could compromise the smooth running of California voting in the Nov. 2 presidential election.

Shelley said he was firing the consultants and taking other steps to assure Soaries that he would properly handle $350 million in federal Help America Vote Act funds, designed to prevent problems like those that occurred in Florida in the 2000 presidential election....

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In recent weeks, Republicans have called for hearings and audits after records released by Shelley's office showed that some consultants being used for voter outreach had ties to his political allies and the Democratic Party, and had received Help America Vote Act money to attend political events....


http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-shelly25sep25,1,558941.story?coll=la-home-politics

[Night Gal]

1. Nice guy. takes from the public to fill his own war chest

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/08/MNG3L84PD51.DTL

Diverts funds for a community center to his own pockets.
Son of a Conggressman and former mayor.

A whole flock of CA pols and well soundng groups are named here....
Head of the Housing Authority
Willie Brown
Neighborhood Resource Center
Julie Lee


Damn.
When will the lemmings finally stop believing the old network shit?

We're all being played for fools.

[nodictators]

2. Shelley is a national leader in clean elections

Shelley, a Democrat, has taken a strong position against questionable touchscreen voting systems and banned some from the California general election in November.

Just because there are allegations from the Schwarzenegger regime doesn't mean Shelley is guilty of anything.

The rate of uncounted ballots in the 2002 CA general election more than doubled from 2000, to 3.5% under the former Repub Secretry of State. That is higher than the rate in Florida 2000, and almost double the national average. High rates of uncounted ballots are a possible sign of election fraud.

Schwarzenegger "won" the gubernatorial recall election in 2003. The average rate of uncounted ballots in Democratic counties was more than 10%, nearly double the average rate in Repub counties. Unlike Flroida, the Democratic counties had significantly higher levels of educational attainment and income, according to Census 2000.

Shelley was elected in the Nov. 2002 general election, and has worked hard for clean elections and secure voting systems. It's possible that some of the allegations are payback.

[KittyWampus]

3. Ummm, The GOP & BBV Advocates Are Trying To Bring Down Shelley

at least that's my understanding. He is strongly FOR clean elections.

Just like the accusations the UN is being investigated for alleged corruption in Iraq Oil/Food program.

The only allegations against the UN originally came from discredited Iranian spy Chalabi and the only evidence was on Chalabi's computer which he refuses to make public.

In other words, you cross the Bush Family Mafia and they'll make shit up about you and harass you with investigations.

So who is being played for a fool here?