Orange County Register Covers Lawsuit Over Secretary of State Candidate’s Ballot Status

On May 12, the Orange County (California) Register published this story about a lawsuit over whether one of the candidates for Secretary of State should be on the ballot. The lawsuit, filed by Pamela Barnett, a California voter, says that one of the Republicans running for Secretary of State should not have been put on the June primary ballot. Damon Dunn registered as a Democrat in the 1990’s in Florida, but he never voted there, and he was eventually classed as an inactive voter.

Dunn later moved to California and registered as a Republican. However, his California registration was less than one year before the filing deadline. California law says a voter only needs to have been registered in the party in which he or she is running for three months. But California law also says that regardless of the 3-month rule, a candidate can’t be on a partisan primary ballot if the candidate had been a registered member of another party during the year before filing. Also the California registration form asks, “If you were registered to vote before, answer these questions” and asks where the voter was registered previously. Dunn’s California registration form did not complete this portion of the form. Finally, the card says, above the signature block, “I declare that the information on this form is true and correct.”

The obvious rebuttal to the lawsuit is that it was filed far too late. Absentee voting started in California on May 10, and foreign absentee ballots were sent out in April. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for the link.


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Orange County Register Covers Lawsuit Over Secretary of State Candidate’s Ballot Status — 12 Comments

  1. I do not think the treatment of Dunn registration was equal treatment with that of Mr. William Wallace Murrey
    who tried to run on the American Independent Party this year for Governor (also from Orange County), when it was
    called to the attention of Mr. Kelly’s staff that Mr. Murrey was registered Republican until late December, 2009, they just told Mr. Murrey he could not run and
    a oversight happened at the Orange County Registrar’s
    Office. Bottom line the SOS should not let Mr. Dunn
    run because a disinformation on his voter registration.
    This type of disinformation was an underlying issue in
    KING vs. BOWEN in 2008.

    Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American Independent Party, affilated with the America’s Independent Party since June 27, 2008

  2. Section 8001(a) of the Elections Code specifies “qualified political party”. Maybe Orly Taitz believes that parties qualified in Florida are qualified parties in California.

  3. Soros funded Secretary of State Project equals Obama 2008 natural born citizen project

    And is/did Dunn asking Florida to destroy his voter registration database history?

    ‘It’s Not the People Who Vote that Count; It’s the People Who Count the Votes’

  4. Damon Dunn grew up in Texas, and went to college at Stanford. He was apparently never registered in Texas or California. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the NFL, but never actually played a game for the team, but apparently got a drivers license and registered to vote.

    He played a handful of games for the Cleveland Browns and New York Jets, and a season in NFL Europe, before playing a season or two for the Los Angeles Xtreme in the Arena Football League. Since his businesses are in Orange County (CA), how long did he live in Florida?

    With no ties other than being drafted by a team that releases you before you play a game, why would maintain a residence in Jacksonville?

  5. why ask to have your voter registration/enrollment history removed? — especially if you have never voted.

  6. the Dunn/SOSP-Soros/Bowen situation reminds me of the scene in “the Candidate” where Peter Boyle character tell the Robert Redford character not to worry about attempting to win, that he (the Redford character) is supposed to lose. — just as McCain was supposed to lose in 2008.

  7. Maybe it was brought to his attention that he might still be technically registered in Florida.

    Did he live in Jacksonville while he was playing for Cleveland and the New York Jets or Berlin? He also had a tryout with the Dallas Cowboys.

  8. #7
    That may be the case, but he is running to be the chief election officer of the mega state of CA and often acting as a judicial minister which would make his ethical background of attempting to destroy his FL election / enrollment voting records/database a huge terrible joke on the system of CA elections — just as terrible joke of HI officials pretending to have in-state births listed for the purposes of US citizenship with key BLANK COLB varification database fields. — and conspiring to commit nbc POTUS/CINC election eligibility treason — against the federal constitution.

  9. #8&9 I don’t see Exhibit A.

    It’s unclear from the lawsuit whether Barnett believes Debra Bowen is a party to the fraud. Isn’t that a criminal matter? Maybe Barnett should contact the Attorney General.

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