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Orange County registrar defends processes as Huntington Beach residents press for reforms
Summary
Bob Page, Orange County Registrar of Voters, presented security, signature‑verification and voter‑file procedures and answered extensive council and public questions about mail‑ballot handling, signatures, "dog" registrations, and possible reforms including voter ID. Page described daily maintenance, audits and a small number of referrals to prosecutors.
Bob Page, Orange County's Registrar of Voters, presented a detailed overview of county election operations and spent more than an hour answering council and resident questions about vote-by-mail, signature verification and voter-roll maintenance.
Page described the county's checks for chain-of-custody and equipment security: "Every piece of voting equipment that we use in the vote centers... is not connected to the Internet," he said, and he described sealed equipment, two‑person ballot-handling teams and GPS/photo proof for drop‑box pickups.
On signature verification for vote-by-mail envelopes, Page explained the…
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