Pima County Board of Supervisors Finally Gives Up Trying to Keep Citizens From Verifying Our Votes

The Pima County Board of Supervisors took public comments before adjourning
to an executive session to discuss the lawsuit filed by the Pima County
Democratic Party against the Board for electronic election data files. 

Vince Rabago, chair of the Pima County Democratic Party, recommended that
the board not continue this lawsuit with an appeal.  Several members of the public also spoke, including members
of the election integrity organization AUDIT AZ and primary
challengers Donna Branch-Gilby (D) and Barney Brenner (R)
who are running against Sharon Bronson in Supervisor District 3,
and Brad Roach (R) who is running for County Attorney against Barbara LaWall.

 
When the Board returned from executive session, they voted on the four
matters scheduled for executive session.  For each of the first three
matters, the county attorney made a recommendation and a supervisor moved to
"follow the county attorney’s recommendation."
 
On the final matter, the Democratic Party lawsuit, the county attorney
simply stated the posture of the case in court without stating his
recommendation for the record.  Sharon Bronson moved to simply "not
file an appeal" and the Board approved the motion on a 5-0 vote. 

The Board
also ordered that the electronic data files be hash marked for verification
purposes, and released to the Democratic Party on June 9, 2008.

 
After the vote, Supervisor Ray Carroll told this reporter that he could not
reveal what was discussed in executive session, but he would describe the
tone.  Carroll said the supervisors were "frothing" and that Sharon Bronson
was "vitriolic" in her comments to him.  Carroll said he thought
Sharon lost it and that Donna Branch-Gilby must be getting to
her.
 
Donna Branch-Gilby filed her petitions on Monday with over 1,500
signatures submitted.
 
The County had previously stipulated to an order in the first part of this
case.  Party observers will be allowed to open and review ballot boxes for
the summary reports of early voting totals at issue in that case on June 25,
2008 under Court supervision.

Read Gary Duffey’s coverage at the Tucson Citizen.


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