On Aug 12, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Peter Barath wrote: > http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2195759/court-rejects-threat-vote > >> Yes. Very interesting. I think the decision of the Court reasonably >> obvious; however, they consider that the issues were sufficiently >> unsettled at law that they did not find the Secretary of State of >> California, the defendant, to be liable for damages to the > > A little help, please. My Mensan friend who is to write an > article about voting methods, in a Mensa periodical, wants to > mention the incident. > > But we don't have the slightest idea what a "Secretary of State > of California" means. "Secretary of State of US" is US term for > European "Minister of Foreign Affairs", but we have doubt that > a US member state has such thing. Is it like a "Justice Minister", > or a "Minister of Home affairs" (police and/or municipalities), > or "Senior State Prosecutor", "Head of Supreme Court" or > something else?
http://www.sos.ca.gov/ I'm not sure what an equivalent title would be. Not prosecutor; the state has an elected Attorney General for that purpose, and the state's supreme court is entirely separate. In this context, the CA SoS is the state's chief elections officer. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
