Twelve days earlier, Santa Cruz Elections Director and Board Clerk Melinda Meek (left) and Supervisor John Maynard (right) beat a hasty retreat as John Brakey (center) attempts to reassure them that elections transparency is preferred over continued litigation. Video available here. J.T. Waldron With only days away from the November 4th general election, Santa Cruz County Elections Director Melinda Meek […]
The Curious Business of William E. Doyle
J.T. Waldron In the past eight years of litigation over election transparency in Arizona, William E. Doye’s name has appeared only twice in court transcripts but Doyle and his company “Election Operations Services” play an unsettling role in most elections throughout the state. Doyle’s career in public service appears to have begun with the earliest public […]
Santa Cruz Judge Kimberly Corsaro Rules in Favor of the Plaintiffs Seeking Election Records
J.T. Waldron Yesterday morning, Sergio Arellanos, John Brakey, and a number of citizens concerned with elections in Santa Cruz County received a welcome judgment finding the Defendants (County of Santa Cruz) in violation of Arizona state public records laws. “The court helped restore public confidence with this ruling because it upholds the laws that support […]
Santa Cruz Fulfills Data Request With an Altered Audit Log
Citizens Against Rigged Elections (AUDITAZ) in Santa Cruz County, Arizona J.T. Waldron After months of delays and legal costs to taxpayers, the elections department in the small border county of Santa Cruz, Arizona, finally parted with a portion of their elections records. Santa Cruz’s audit logs for last August’s election are missing a portion of […]
Mickey Duniho Resigns from Pima County’s Election Integrity Commission
Mickey Duniho’s resignation letter to Pima County Board of Supervisor Ray Carroll, the elected official who appointed Duniho to a seat in the Pima County Election Integrity Commission. Dear Mr. Carroll, I have spent many years at your request and that of others researching numbers of ways that elections in Pima County and the state […]