NCS Shelby Bunch Blasts Riverside County Sups Over ROV $800,000 Settlement. UPDATED
“Those of us fighting to fix our flawed elections appreciate the latest actions taken against Rebecca Spencer and RunBeck, today.” …….Shelby Bunch Riverside County New California State Senator
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UPDATED October 8, 2023 4:00 am pst
Following numerous complaints expressed by Riverside County Citizens as well the County District Attorney the county Registrar of Voters Rebecca Spencer and her handling of elections the Riverside County Board of Supervisors took action and placed Spencer on Administrative leave on September 13, 2023. Following Spencer being placed on administrative leave Riverside County Board of Supervisors agreed on Tuesday October 3, 2023 to a nearly $800,000 settlement following her resignation as the county’s top elections official. The county accepted Spencer’s resignation as Registrar on Friday, September 29, county spokesperson Brooke Federico confirmed.
Neither the county nor Spencer have confirmed the reasons behind her resignation.
While no one is saying why Spencer was placed on Administrative leave then resign it is important to note that New California State Riverside County Chair and State Senator Shelby Bunch served the Riverside Board of Supervisors over 400 Declarations of Truth concerning their individual actions regarding purported voting irregularities in the ROV office. Each Board member was served with 100 Declarations signed by 100 Riverside County Citizens. The Board Members were given 5 days to respond to the accusations but failed to respond. Yet Spencer was placed on administrative leave and now there is a massive settlement that appears to be more inline with “hush” money than it is is attempting to fix a major problem in the ROV office which by numerous indicators show signs of election fraud.
“Spencer, who had been the county’s elections chief since 2014, was placed on administrative leave in mid-September, according to reporting by The Press-Enterprise. At the time, Spencer’s lawyer told The Press-Enterprise the move was “totally retaliatory and political in nature.”
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“Spencer has been with the Registrar of Voter’s office since 2001 and held the top position since 2014. Federico said Art Tinoco, the Assistant Registrar of Voters, will be assuming the duties of the Interim Registrar, subject to confirmation by the Board of Supervisors. Tinoco has been with the ROV’s office since 2002.“
On Tuesday October 3, 2023 NCS Shelby Bunch took issue with the Board’s apparent “NDA” Non Disclosure Agreement” with Spencer. In a statement to the Board Bunch blasts the supervisors.
New Californian Shelby Bunch’s statement to the Board.
“First, I have a couple of questions. I would like to know who approved an $800,000 package for Rebecca Spencer once she resigned. That’s the citizens’ money. That is absolutely insane, considering the job that she’s done. I also would like to know who approved a $250,000 annual salary for her when she was doing such a poor job. I’ll be doing a PRA to get that information. Those of us fighting to fix our flawed elections appreciate the latest actions taken against Rebecca Spencer and RunBeck, today. However, there are other major issues with our elections that are being dismissed. And, regardless of the mandates and unconstitutional laws being presented in an attempt to control our elections from outside our county, it is the ultimate duty and responsibility of this board to ensure that county elections are conducted properly.
Per California state code, section 19207, the county decides how its elections will be conducted, not the state. So, ultimately it falls on this board. The forced mail-in ballots are a chain of custody issue. Once the ballot is mailed out, there is no longer a control mechanism to ensure its authenticity. And, signature verification in this county is done by untrained individuals who do not have the skills to identify fraudulent ballots.
The tabulators are created with wireless capabilities and were accessed multiple times during our last November election. The excuse given was that Dominion was simply doing updates. This happened during our election. No one is supposed to manipulate any part of the EMS after the logic and accuracy tests has occurred. It is this board’s responsibility to protect our elections. And that is not happening in whole.
Along with this, using voting machines to count our ballots goes against California elections code, section 15272, which reads: the ballot count shall be public and continued without adjournment. It should never stop until it’s completed and the results are declared. During the reading and tallying, the ballot read and the tally sheet kept, shall be within clear view of watchers. This can’t happen when it’s happening inside of a machine. The tallying that takes place inside these machines is not viewable to us, and the counting of our votes ceases and reconvenes every day for over a month.
The method used in Riverside County also goes against California election code 19205, which reads: no part of the voting machine shall be connected to the internet at any time. And no part of the voting system shall receive or transmit communications or wireless data transfers. Because we’ve learned that our county’s EMS has been remotely accessed, we need to go back to small precincts, hand county, which can be done within an hour, and small precincts.
Get our voter rolls off of the internet and back into paper poll books, reinstate voter ID, and return to one-day voting and tallying. I emailed an in-person voting example to all of you, and only one of your personnel confirmed that they received it. This is all easy to fix if you guys want to fix this. It’s not hard.”
Following NCS Shelby Bunch’s call in presentation Jim Suver, Vice President of Business Development for RunBeck told the board:
“As you know we’ve been asked to be part of a third-party audit in late April with our first meeting in early May. We have been a stalwart vendor to the county since 2018 and at the written request of the COO. We participated in good faith sharing not so favorable information with the auditor and it was also known the auditor was active in many discussions back-and-forth with RunBeck and the registrar’s office during this four to six weeks process.
“You well know the audit was a review of the 2022 election cycle and in multiple instances the registrar attempted to use RunBeck as a sheld to cover up certain actions. Some examples were to explain away USPS fines and assessments, the incorrect mailing of thousands of duplicate ballot packets and the dramatic rise in postage.”
“In operational discussions between the county and RunBeck regarding these situations facts of these actions were misrepresented to the county COO and blame was directed at RunBeck. However since RunBeck possessed emails proving the opposite of this narrative it brought daylight to the process.”
Looking back since the November 3, 2020 General Election, 2021 Recall Election of Governor Newsom and then the November 2022 General Elections New California State has discovered numerous election irregularities in Riverside County that are reflected in all the 58 counties of the state of California.
New California State auditors have audited all the counties and all the races for state and federal offices and found fraud at all levels.
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“We participated in good faith sharing not so favorable information with the auditor and it was also known the auditor was active in many discussions back-and-forth with RunBeck and the registrar’s office during this four to six weeks process”. RunBeck
Jim Suver, Vice President of Business Development for RunBeck speaks at 3:31 mark.
“You well know the audit was a review of the 2022 election cycle and in multiple instances the registrar attempted to use RunBeck as a sheld to cover up certain actions. Some examples were to explain away USPS fines and assessments, the incorrect mailing of thousands of duplicate ballot packets and the dramatic rise in postage.” RunBeck
Spencer’s Attorney Responds
“Rebecca Spencer`s attorney, Sanford A. Kassel, has confirmed that Rebecca Spencer has been a tremendous asset to the County of Riverside throughout her employment as the ROV and in the Registrar of Voters` Office for nearly 25 years and will be greatly missed. Mr. Kassel confirmed that his client, Rebecca Spencer, has agreed to resign from her position as the Registrar of Voters and the parties have agreed to a mutually very satisfactory Settlement Agreement.”
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES:
Riverside County Registrar accuses District Attorney of interfering with election
Riverside County District Attorney responds to election interference allegations
