ATTN:
"the cost of elections for county, state, and federal governments shall be an apportioned county expense and shall not be chargeable to other political subdivisions." 32-1201
The SoS office spends tens of millions of dollars on a nontransparent centralized electronic "voting" system that they then turn around and force on our counties. Why are you allowing this??? Besides the obvious reason for nontransparency (election fraud), this money could be going to common Nebraskans instead of a corrupt billion dollar corporation.
Why is the SoS office being allowed to usurp county sovereignty and break the law???
Why is the SoS office being allowed to centralize elections, which only centralizes power and corruption???
A person who knows a crime has been committed and does nothing about it is an ACCESSORY.
You are now an accessory, unless you do something about this criminal conduct and maladministration of our elections.
Robert J. Borer
I just got a burr in my saddle and decided to send the above email to our AG and all 49 senators. (Several silly worthless election bills that don’t address anything of substance are up for citizen testimony this afternoon. Our uniparty unicameral legislature is worthless.)
This is not the blind leading the blind….it’s the fox guarding the hen house. 😠
Notice of Tort Claim, then Criminal Complaint (6 months later, I'm told). I'll try to serve them to Douglas County and post a link to those Board web site agenda items a week or two later so others can do the same. Sorry I've been distracted from that. Here's as far as I am:
Notice Of Tort Claim
For the admitted to violation of Nebraska Revised Statute 32-1201, to wit:
Costs of election; payment; county expense. (In part)"...the expenditures for necessary office supplies, books, documents, and appurtenances relating to or used in performing the duties of the election commissioner or county clerk in relation to elections, and the cost of elections for county, state, and federal governments shall be an apportioned county expense... SourceLaws 1994, LB 76, § 366; Laws 1997, LB 764, § 103.
Aforementioned admission has been made by Deputy Secretary of State Wayne Bena at least once to a Nebraska county commission as evidenced by his admission to the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners on July 18, 2023 recorded on YouTube (timestamp 0:05:10, https://www.youtube.com/live/47hJljf8_1Y?si=99d_Pxy6uhRgJkPt&t=310).
The State of Nebraska opened a Request for Proposals for a statewide voter registration software in February 2004. During this process, ES&S was determined to be the winning bid and a contract was entered into in June 2004. This contract was most recently updated in 2023 and may be viewed here: https://statecontracts.nebraska.gov/Search/SearchDocuments?A=0DMzZvfh2LpWjE82VYu%2FDA%3D%3D&D=cu%2FcCnhODkCOG1EDlMHv5g%3D%3D&DN=m%2BImPSr%2BuofVyFH4N%2ByI7w%3D%3D&N=xZzWrzhLPVkO8Y9%2BtTV%2BHSKnQvS%2BjEKjNuWT8nmRbKY%3D&DT=WLK8FM4tjFO81XLHoaAJTQ%3D%3D&V=QYLQR69xKOG6cVOjjM2Guv%2Bn7XpTiS7dbDEa%2F2IpL1Y%3D.
In other words, the state of Nebraska, instead of the Douglas County is paying for certain election costs for the county election commission.
A. The importance for election commissioners to be 100% supported by the county is easily understood - it is the vital part of a decentralized election model.
B. The risk we take by allowing our elective franchise to become centralized in defiance of NRS 32-1201 is also obvious. We risk that the dictatorial center of this otherwise all important uniqueness of our form of government falls to the ever problematic human bent to corruption and where the bullies win and honest people lose.
ES&S is well within its rights to be anti-American ideologically yet conduct elections with unsupervised dark software and in defiance of NRS 32-1201, isn't it?
ES&S is well within its rights to be under control of persons who are forbidden by law even to vote, well within its rights not to self report when hand counts proved their superiority, to be more secretive and not subject to PRRs than election commissions, well within its rights well within its rights not to be of good moral character, well within its rights to be fully biased...and to be a Trojan horse. Etc. etc.
The software carries with it the ideologies of its developers. Do you think for one second that software sheds the biases of its developers?
The importance of the conducting of elections being the responsibility of an election commission, a government subdivision and subject to PRR (Public Records Requests), rather than conducted by a private, secretive company that is well within its rights to have communist or anti-American political beliefs and well within its rights to be an alliance of dark or secret societies not subject to PRR, is also easily understood.
Contrast ES&S involvement to centralize the election apparatus with what the Legislature and state Constitution envisioned with this statute, that county election commissions not be taken away from being maximally accountable in a decentralized system to the voters of a county for the handling of their votes.
ES&S thinks to fight public interest PRRs about their dark vote-counting software. On November 17, 2023 I asked Brian Kruse in the presence of Wayne Bena and several Douglas County Election Commission staff why ES&S machines, which we all agreed are capable of counting millions upon millions of votes perfectly accurately, continue to count imperfectly as per the Scott County, IA House District 81 legislative race of November 2022. Mr. Kruse himself answered that the machines can only do what their software instructs them to do. Inasmuch as political races can be won or lost by a mere one vote, NO EXCUSES ARE TOLERABLE FOR COUNTING VOTES BY ANYTHING LESS THAN THE GOLD STANDARD COUNTING MEANS - HAND COUNTING. New Jersey Superior Court Judge David Bauman on February 02, 2023 ordered a final hand count to determine the race outcome of an ES&S-counted race. That hand count proved that two and maybe three ES&S counts were ALL fraudulent.In this Notice Of Tort Claim, I join with a very large number of Douglas County residents who are adamant that ES&S no longer have access to uncounted cast ballots and their uncounted ballot selections as of NOW, before the Bennington bond issue. To wit,
- The initial count of ballots and votes cast in all races be made by hand, AND those results be the results that are PUBLICLY reported as the "unofficial results" that could be titled the "irrefutably prove these wrong or they stand" results, instead of the ES&S results having that honor.
<signed with contact info>