Some one should investigate the no-bid contracts for the ESS Voting Systems and the additional no-bid contract on the now Sequoia Voting Systems purchased by Ed Lee, and used by San Francisco's Department of Elections for years. If my memory serves me well, each of these two shady approximately $10 million deals cost the taxpayers of San Francisco, about a $20 million dollar total hit. Rumor has it that there were more than a hand full of $500,000 payoffs to multiple players. Since both of these high-tech computer voting systems used the corrupt central tabulation unit as the single point where all the votes were set by manual input, it's pretty clear that Ed Lee and his staff may be in on wholesale elections tampering.

The ESS and Sequoia Voting Systems have since been exposed as dirty systems wide open to computer fraud, and manual over-rides in methods and process that deliver crooked results, as the votes of the voters are not even what are delivered as results. Since these corrupt systems were purchased by Ed Lee and his high tech swindle operation, and these systems successfully drove years of election tampering and fraudulent results, the elections for years are now suspect. Clearly the Administrations of Mayor Brown, Mayor Newsom and now under Mayor Ed Lee ran illegal voting operations, and crooked elections. The fact that the voters were swindled out of their votes is a much more serious set of felonies than simply stealing a few million here and there and destroying people in the process. I remember Kamala Harris's comment when she endorsed and introduced Chris Cunnie on his campaign opener, last 2011: "elections are blood sport to us here in San Francisco, and we play for keeps."

Let's ask the US Attorney to investigate contracts awarded by Ed Lee under the Brown and Brown/Newsom administrations and leave the cannabis clubs alone. I can almost guarantee some indictments if she would only look.

We talked about this a bit at the Project Censored book talk for its Censored 2012 Yearbook at Modern Times last night. Mirkarimi-Lopez news eclipsed all other San Francisco news for more weeks than I kept track of. Coverage of Ed Lee's involvement in a fraud and corruption scandal doesn't compare. Neither does coverage of Gascón's indictment of Go Lorrie's Vans and its top employees for absentee voter fraud.