Ventura County California Vote Counting

Caveat Lector

Is there a danger of malfeasance in counting the votes in Ventura County, California? To investigate this question, a number of Republican voters recently toured the Registrar of Voters office in the Ventura County Government Center. I participated in both these over one-hour tours and took detailed notes concurrently. Afterwards I found that information given by the officials on the tour essentially matched on both occasions in my notes as it should. I wrote a report of the tour information and sent the draft to the Public Information Officer for comment. That person eventually replied that there were numerous inaccuracies; the specific ones pointed out I found to be trivial or nitpicking. The Registrar of Voters office is considering a “video tour” to be published on the web sometime after the current election which I wholeheartedly supported as it can be scripted rather than the ad hoc commentary and answers to questions we received on the tour. Nonetheless, with THAT STRONG…