August 20, 2010 | from Bakersfield Californian
SB 1233, authored by state Sen. Jenny Oropeza, D-Long Beach, would allow victims of domestic violence to withhold their addresses from various official documents and records for which they would otherwise be required to submit such information, such as voting or enrolling a child in school. The bill makes permanent a program, sponsored by Secretary of State Debra Bowen, that had been due to expire Jan. 1, 2013. Read More »
August 18, 2010 | from The Santa Barbara Independent
"I became motivated to get it right before we had another horrible disaster for our whole democracy," said Bowen. "We couldn't afford another election where there was vast mistrust of the results." Read More »
August 12, 2010 | from Sierra Star
Secretary Bowen visited the Mountain Area to inform voters what she is doing to protect against voter fraud, empower voters, work with teens through mock trials, work on open government, the Safe at Home program -- a confidential address program for survivors of abuse -- and to take questions from the partisan crowd. Read More »
August 06, 2010 | from MyMotherLode.com
Bowen met with County Clerk and Auditor-Controller Debi Russell and her elections staff, as well as CAO Craig Pedro and District One Supervisor Liz Bass. Some discussion focused on the recently passed Proposition 14, which Bowen calls a "game changer" in the election process. California will be moving to an open primary system in 2012, and all 58 California counties will need to prepare for changes over the coming year. Read More »
July 26, 2010 | from San Diego Business
Yet Bowen also believed getting to that point would need more time from both election officials and technology companies to make sure that potential voting software is essentially bullet-proof. Read More »
June 24, 2010 | from SF Appeal
A panel discussion will follow the screening, featuring Secretary of State Debra Bowen...San Francisco police Inspector Tony Flores, executive director of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium Beverly Upton, and activist Victor Rivers. Read More »
June 18, 2010 | from The Desert Sun
Under federal law, voters who cast provisional ballots are entitled to find out if their ballot was counted, said California Secretary of State Debra Bowen. Read More »
June 07, 2010 | from KPBS
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen is embracing Twitter as another way to share election results. She says the social media format allows Twitter followers to set the agenda. Read More »
May 13, 2010 | from Associated Press
Shortly after taking office in 2007, Bowen commissioned a top-to-bottom review of machines throughout the state to identify problems and ensure accuracy. She then drew the fury of some county registrars by severely restricting use of some electronic voting machines just six months before the state's 2008 presidential primary. Read More »
May 06, 2010 | from Highland News
"When you vote by mail, you never have to miss an election because you can't get to your polling place," said Secretary of State Debra Bowen, the state's chief elections officer. Read More »
