del.icio.usYesterday, the Democratic National Committee issued a strong statement calling for "a swift and verifiable manual count of all 150,000 ballots cast in California’s 50th District," writing,
This is no longer about whether or not Busby or Bilbray won the election on June 6th. This is about the importance of verifying the facts related to election and voting machine irregularities in this race and the need to ensure an accurate count of all votes cast in this election so that the electorate may have confidence in the announced results in future elections.
I'm at DemocracyFest, which is being held this year at San Diego State Universtiy, just a few miles from the CA-50 district where this election took place earlier this summer. DNC Chair Howard Dean will be addressing us this evening.
Yesterday, Brad Friedman of the Brad Blog announced the news here and the room erupted in applause. On his blog, Brad writes,
The long-awaited announcement of a position on the matter by the DNC comes at the end of more than a month of outrage from both national and state election integrity organizations, many of whom have declared "No Confidence" in the reported results of the race held to replace jailed Republican Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
John Bonifaz signed the No Confidence declaration and issued a statement in support on the day it was released. We're very pleased to have the DNC's support in the call to count the vote in CA-50!
