Ballot Label Cheating in Redwood City

Yet another timely article regarding the insidious efforts to hoodwink voters using deceptive ballot language. "For ballot measures, Gov. Newsom and Democratic-controlled Legislature are putting their thumbs on the election scale": Borenstein: Blue-state California lawmakers also undermining democracy

  Press Release - For immediate release Contact: Christopher Robell (650) 245-7395    c hris_robell@yahoo.com     Blog:  ballotlabel.blogspot.com May 11, 2023 Trial Judge Rules on Local School Bond Election Contests Judge Nicole Healy has rendered her decision regarding the Election Contest initiated by Christopher Robell pertaining to two local school bonds*. Given the tone and bias demonstrated at the April 18th trial, Robell  previously  said he expected the Judge to rule in favor of County Counsel. As an example, she allowed testimony without cross examination.  So what did she do? She ruled to dismiss the case, essentially regurgitating everything that County Counsel wrote. For example, she quoted the statute that states ballots shall have printed on them the words "Shall the measure (stating the nature thereof) be adopted?” Yet she found the quotes means nothing. The judge’s opinion is littered with that kind of reasoning. Robell says...

Press Release - For immediate release Contact: Christopher Robell (650) 245-7395    c hris_robell@yahoo.com     Blog:  ballotlabel.blogspot.com May 2, 2023 Local School Bonds:  The Ball is in the “Court’s Court" Today, Christopher Robell, Contestant in two local school bond elections contests*, filed a lengthy brief with the Court Clerk.  At the April 18th trial, Judge Nicole Healy allowed Robell 10 days to respond to County Counsel’s last minute lawyering tactics, where they served Robell with hundreds of pages of documents at literally 5:01pm the night before the trial.  Why is Robell’s brief so lengthy**? Because each and every one of County Counsel’s arguments is just plain ludicrous. Robell needed to rebut each point with facts and case law.  And, in many cases, it gets to a point where Robell has to start providing definitions of basic words (like “a” and “the”) and explain basic concepts like what a duration of a tax means (which anyon...