EPIC WIN! Nevada County Must Pay $85,000 for Withholding 2020 Election Records!
A California patriot just sued Nevada County and won!
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A Judge has ruled that Nevada County must pay more than $85,000 in response to the county's unlawful withholding of election records. Unfortunately, this major election victory, is not being widely reported, apart from Sierra Thread!
In December 2021, Californian patriot Amy Young submit a request for Nevada County's election records pertaining to the 2020 General Election.
Young filed a Public Records Request to the Nevada County Elections Office, specifically seeking digital ballot images, audit logs, tabulator tapes, and cast vote records. However, the county unlawfully declined to provide any of the requested records.
Young directly confronted the Board of Supervisors in a June 14, 2022, meeting.
After enduring a painstaking 18-months of unanswered requests, Young decided to take legal action and filed a petition for a writ of mandate on August 17, 2022. This emergency filing came just one week before the legal deadline for the destruction of records scheduled for September 3, 2022. Young demanded a preservation of records just in time before the deadline.
In response to this filing, the county turned over the cast vote records while still withholding the other requested documents.
The Elections Office claimed to the courts that the records Young sought were exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Act, utilizing a similar legal defense as the one we saw Maricopa County use against Kari Lake. Nevada County stated that Young was an election denier and threatened to expose the County to threats of violence by third parties.
The county also claimed throughout the lawsuit that the County did not possess the records that were being requested.
These assertions flew in the face of the fact that similar election documents for San Francisco County had been openly accessible online for the past seven election cycles. Young showed the judge that these records were made publicly available throughout the state, and utterly destroyed the counties argument.
Finally, on February 15, 2023, following five months of litigation, the Court issued an order directing the County to provide a sample of an audit log from the 2020 election. However, the Court also permitted the County to redact any portions they believed had a legal basis for non-disclosure, with the condition that they CLEARLY marked these redactions and provided descriptions for WHY the data was omitted.
Natalie Adona, the registrar of voters for Nevada County, submitted the first page of an audit log for the November 2020 election to the Court. Below is a screenshot of what Adona provided to the court. And no, this is not a joke!
Adona may as well have submitted a blank piece of paper. She also defied the court’s order by not even providing a legal basis for the redactions.
Amy Young then presented the Court with an entire, unaltered audit log from Stanislaus County, which uses the EXACT same voting system as Nevada County. Thus, proving that there was no legal basis for the redaction.
Finally, on June 21, 2023, the Court ordered Natalie Adona to release all public records requested by Young, with the exception of the digital ballot images. In its ruling, the court quoted Los Angeles Unified School Dist. v. Superior Court: “The motive of the particular requester in seeking public records is irrelevant, and the CPRA does not differentiate among those who seek access to them… Moreover, the purpose for which the requested records are to be used is likewise irrelevant.”
At a final hearing on September 29, 2023, the court ordered Nevada County to pay over $85,000 to the plaintiff. The decision by honorable judge S. Robert Tice-Raskin is a far cry from what many of us election truthers have become accustomed to in fighting against unlawful activity. Finally, an obstructionist election board is being held accountable for committing blatant crimes against its people.
Following this decision, Amy Young issued the following public statement.
These costs could have all been avoided if the Board of Supervisors and county counsel had taken this issue more seriously when I addressed them in public comment on June 14, 2022 (starting at timestamp 1:24:45). In my comment, I told them that I had been denied access to election records including audit logs, tabulator tapes, and cast vote records – all records which I obtained as a result of the petition for writ of mandate. I am grateful to my attorneys for stepping up to help bring justice and transparency to this situation. I hope that getting election records won’t be such a struggle in the future.
Our elections are fundamental to our republic and people should not have to have any special qualifications to see every detail of the process, even if those details are electronic in nature. Truly, most of our elections today are processed in a digital format on computerized voting systems, from the time our ballots are received to when the results are generated – with physical, human interaction minimized. If there are going to be computers used for counting our votes, then what computers do is just as critical for observers to view as the more traditionally observed elements of an election.
Amy Young's court victory is far from its conclusion.
It's reasonable to speculate that the county had a motive for withholding these records for over two years. Clearly, there is something within the data that they did not want the people to see, and now that the county has been forced to comply, numerous data engineers are currently scrutinizing the data to determine the integrity of the 2020 election.
This legal triumph establishes a noteworthy legal precedent that will have serious implications in upcoming elections, including the rapidly approaching 2024 election. Despite California’s continuous use of voting machines, there will be a higher level of transparency in elections going forward. Any county within the state that plans to withhold public records will face an immediate injunction and court order.
While some may downplay this victory, stating that the 2020 election has long been over, Amy Young has performed an invaluable public service by challenging the county's obstruction, right up to the very end.
Wow just disgusting. It's happening where democrats run elections.
Thanks for this painstaking work. I’ve shared it on my Twitter.