Here lies the Sun's latest lie.......

James Koren of the San Bernardino Sun Newspaper did not accurately report the substance of the partial interview with me in his article found at http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_15295471; (1) the problem is that the election was called by the computer at 10:32 pm on election night with less than half the ballots counted--the html code printout shows Ramos was declared (as were other county-wide candidates--most of which were appointees of the board of supervisors, endorsed by one of more of the current supervisors and who hired Virgil) "winner" in the software (which mirrors the race being called as over in the Daily Press article as early as 8:48 pm on election night see http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/strong-19763-bernardino-takes.html or go to: Ramos takes strong lead in DA race | strong, bernardino, takes - Local News - Victorville Daily Press); (2) James Koren did not bother to share what the Registrar (Virjil) did tell him--Virgil claims to not know much about the software or how it works. which if true is frightening, which I am sure the reporter shield law will be used to not talk about if Koren was ever questioned (if it is true) and (3) Koren did not ask Virgil (who "he's gotten to know") if there was a security protocol in place to control access to the code and if accessed, by whom and when and for what purpose. The interview with James Koren was littered with "don't you think.....", "Isn't it true..." or "don't you think...." questions--all rigged to categorically deny the very allegations made, which needless to say ended the interview. If the County does not answer the question of how, why and when was the determination made to insert a "winner" conclusion in the partial vote cast record at 10:32 pm, if the insertion of the word "winner" was more than just a gratuitous (and in poor taste) label (e.g. was it a command to the computer to crunch the results according to pre-set percentage parameters) and why was the vote within a percentage point of being the same throughout 1402 county precincts for both Vote-by-Mail and precinct voting for each of the County-wide races, we will not have met the constitutional mandate that EVERY vote must be counted. This is not about a race won or lost (and by the way Koren the Klown--no one is officially "defeated" as none of the races are official nor final yet), but its about the integrity of the process, a process that had taken a big time hit with the code showing the computer declared winners with less than half the ballots having been counted. The Registrar and the County owes us more than a Fox News or CNN projection and the Sun needs to start doing some investigative journalism--if it doesn't, I urge everyone to boycott them as being little more than a colored ink Pennysaver.