Events

Conny McCormack, Los Angeles County's Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, will be our special guest at our Wednesday, Dec. 7 meeting. Ms. McCormack is the top election official in the county, responsible for conducting elections for the largest electoral jurisdiction in the U.S., with over 4 million registered voters and 5,000 voting precincts.

Ms. McCormack's focus will be on the security of electronic voting systems--can they be hacked? can they be mis-programmed by mistake or intentionally? do they have a paper trail so they can be audited? Our fears, based on what we hear from Ohio and other states, is that electronic voting may undermine the fairness and accuracy of the vote. Tales of voters touching the screen to vote Kerry but finding that Bush came up as the selection make up our worst nightmare.

Ms. McCormack will make about a 20-minute presentation, to be followed by a 30-minute Q&A. We will ask our members to submit questions ahead of time so we can eliminate redundant questions and do the Q&A in the most logical order.

Because of limited space, please RSVP right away to reserve space for this event. Once the room fills up then we will have to cut off RSVPs. (If you have already RSVP'd please don't do it again!)

While there's no admission charge, we ask all who attend to bring one or two canned goods and/or cash which will be donated to the food bank at the AIDS Service Center of Pasadena.

Please RSVP by sending an email to rsvp@valleygrassrootsfordemocracy.com. You may also email your questions to the same address.

Van Nuys State Building Auditorium, 6150 Van Nuys Blvd. at Calvert St.