[Election-Methods] US court rejects threat to 'vote-trading' websites

[Jonathan Lundell]

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.