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OUSD Board votes for all mail election for Area 1 Trustee
vacancy for March 2016The Orange Unified School Board at their regularly scheduled Board Meeting on Thursday November 5, 2015 voted for an "All-Mail" election for the March 1, 2016 Special Election to fill the OUSD Area 1 Trustee position.
The "all mail" election is estimated to save approximately $152,000 in costs for the Special Election.
The filing period for the OUSD March
2016 Special Election is Monday November 9, 2015 - Friday December 4,
2015. Ballots will be mailed to local
voters starting February 1, 2016
(overseas and military ballots must be mailed by January 15, 2016).
Processing of returned ballots
may begin 10 days prior to the official March 1, 2016 election date. No votes maybe released until 8 pm on March
1, 2016.
The all-mail provision could
delay a winner in a very close election because California election laws allows
mail-in ballots to be received and counted up to 3 days after the
election-which will be March 4, 2016. The Orange County Registrar of Voters website
summarizes this provision :
DEADLINE TO RETURN VOTED BALLOTS BY MAIL: (E+3) Any mail ballot cast
shall be deemed timely if it is received by the elections official via the
United States Postal Service or a bona fide private mail delivery company no
later than three days after Election Day and either of the following is
satisfied: (1) The ballot is postmarked on or before Election Day or is time
stamped or date stamped by a bona fide private mail delivery company on or
before Election Day, or, (2) If the ballot has no postmark, has a postmark with
no date, or has an illegible postmark, but is signed and dated by the voter on
or before Election Day, the mail ballot identification envelope is date stamped
by the elections official upon receipt of the mail ballot from the United
States Postal Service or a bona fide mail delivery company.
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OUSD looks to an "All-Mail"
Special Election to replace ousted Trustee
In the wake of the successful petition gathering that
ousted Greg Salas as the "provisional trustee" for Orange Unified
School Board Area 1, the OUSD Board at their regularly scheduled Board Meeting on Thursday November
5, 2015 will vote on holding an "All-Mail" vote for the March 1st
Special Election.
The "all-mail" election option is allowed in
certain circumstances under California
The November 5th Agenda Item 12 C (page 8) resolution for
the item includes calculations that an "all mail" election would save
approximately $152,000 for the Special Election. The item also includes a report on the
successful petition drive from the Orange County Registrar of Voters and
information pertaining to the Tuesday March 1, 2016 Special Election from the
Orange County Department of Education.
Three U.S.
states currently hold state-wide "all-mail" elections: Oregon , Washington and Colorado
"All mail" elections transparency concerns center
around the mailing process. Critics claim that the ballots are mailed in secret
and counted in a central location that makes insiders fraud on a large scale
easier to accomplish and harder to detect.
Security issues include the claims that the chain of ballot
custody lacks safeguards because of the numerous anonymous persons handling
ballots that are held for weeks before counting. The potential for ballot mishandling by the
Post Office and independent postal companies or more than one ballot sent to a
voter has been recently documented. Colorado
experienced major problems with its first "all mail" vote in 2014
with 1100 illegally forwarded ballots, 214 voters known to receive more than
one official ballot in Boulder County , and official ballots found in dumpsters in El Paso County
Republican concerns about election fraud center on the idea
that ballots can be stolen from mail boxes or "vote harvested".
"Vote harvesting" is when a person shows up at a door to
"help" people vote-a political tactic known to be used by party
operatives for elderly and disabled voters.
This is compounded by Democratic "all-mail" legislation that
allows "ballot harvesters" to
collect and turn in up to 10 ballots at a time.
Finally, ballot secrecy has often been a complaint about
all vote by mail systems. Election Judges can match ballot "inventory
numbers" to specific voters-thus in theory seeing how a person voted. In addition, Republicans have opposed
"voting parties" at churches and union halls that encourage voters to
bring their ballots in with organizers looking over the shoulders of voters to
make sure voters vote the "right way.
The last state to approve
"all-mail" voting was Colorado Colorado
OUSD Administration puts Advertising Kiosks for OUSD High Schools on OUSD
Consent Agenda
The November 5th Agenda includes in the Consent Agenda a
proposal to allow a three year-old advertising company called SkookLive to
install advertising kiosks at all of OUSD's comprehensive high schools.
The advertising kiosks are essentially 6ft high touch
phones. The advertising is suppose to be controlled by the "schools"
with district oversight and would include school and community
updates, public service messages and...advertising. Reportedly, the kiosks also have the ability
to detect gunshots and notify police. SkoolLive
has also placed the advertising kiosks at middle schools.
The Skoollive site in its pitch to advertisers quotes a USA
Today story: "Teenagers
are becoming more influential in parental spending habits" ( click on SkoolLive ).
In addition to high schools SkoolLive has also
placed the advertising kiosks at middle schools. The kiosks are free to the
schools.
SkoolLive has its detractors-namely a student advocacy
group called Oblication.org which has led the fight specifically against the SkoolLive
on-school advertising. Among its concerns is the group's claims that SkoolLive
misleads districts about compensation.
There has been controversy in school districts that have
more publicly vetted the approval process for SkoolLive rather than use the
Consent Item as Orange Unified Administrators are doing. Those concerns include parent concerns, local businesses
concerns, lack of data about the program and the fact that SkoolLive is an
advertising company and not an education company.
For more information click on:
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the OUSD Agenda
Information Item 13 A (Agenda page 17): A report on the
preliminary results from the Bond
Listening Tour. The agenda item reports that January 2016 is the target date
for a recommendations on the feasibility of a 2016 Facilities Bond.
Information Item 13 B
(Agenda page 18):
Information on an independent audit report on district finances as required by
the state.
http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/board/pdf/2015/agenda1105rev.pdf
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING Thursday
November 5, 2015
Next OUSD Board Meeting -OUSD BOARD ROOM
CLOSED SESSION- 5:30 pm
OUSD Regular Session: 7:00 pm
For AGENDA-CLICK ON
For more information call the OUSD
Superintendent’s office at 714-628-4040
For budgeting questions call Business Services at
714-628-4015
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