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Shared Interest Group Announcements

CRI (Conservatives, Republicans, and Independents) Club Trekkers, continued

“One of the most horrendous crimes ever is election rigging. It not only regarding the next hike or walk to members of the Club Trekkers. Below
rapes democracy but hampers the growth of a nation.” are the hikes and walks which be changed depending on weather.
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu 4/1 S - Neighborhood Walk
Part of a fair and accurate election is not just fair voting practices, it’s 4/4 T - Robie Point Firebreak Trail, Auburn State Recreational Area
also fair and accurate counting of the votes. We are very lucky here in 4/8 S - Magnolia Ranch, wildflowers
Placer County. Our Registrar of Voters Ryan Ronco, who addressed our 4/15 S - Neighborhood Walk
CRI Group at our March Meeting, has been overseeing elections for 4/18 T - North Table Mountain, wildflowers
many years and he is very proud of the systems that they employ to 4/22 S - South Yuba River State Park, wildflowers
ensure that our elections are SECURE, TRANSPARENT, ACCURATE 4/29 S - Neighborhood Walk
AND ACCESSIBLE. He shared some interesting facts with us. On May 9th through the 12th, we are planning a 4 day/3 night trip to the
• Ballots are not sent to inactive or cancelled voters. coastal Redwood Parks. Emails will be sent out to Club Trekkers with
• Ballots are not sent to every address in the county. more information.
• Ballots are only sent to active registered voters. Club Quilters ~ Quilters inspiring Quilters
• Every single vote by mail ballot envelope that is approved for counting
has the signature verified by humans in Ryan’s office. That was over
167,000 ballot envelope signatures verified for the November 2022 We meet the 2nd and 4th Fridays at 10:00 a.m. in The Library. If you
general election. have any questions please call Carol 361-290-3222
While they use Dominion Voting Systems, they don’t:
• Use Dominion staff to create the official ballots. All ballots are created Club Veterans
by in-house staff.
• Use Dominion staff to perform pre- or post-election system testing. Greetings to one and all! Not too much to report this trip,
• Use Dominion staff to count official ballots. however planning for the Vet’s BBQ is complete and
• Use Dominion staff to check voter signatures. moving ahead on schedule despite its leader Richard
• Send ballot totals to the cloud. The machines that count the votes are Small being out for a successful knee replacement
NOT connected to the internet, so they can’t be hacked by outside actors. recently. The menu is being finalized and this year the
• Use Dominion to manage their servers. theme will be called an “Armed Forces Picnic.”
• Have any electronic voting machines. ALL Placer County ballots are For many of our membership this term brings back many happy
on paper. moments of eating “C or K” rations in a cold wet muddy foxhole. This
They must go through many steps and must follow State guidelines when will be far from it! And I can assure you this year we will out do
counting the ballots. On Election Night, with over 100,000 votes still ourselves once again. Stay tuned for further information as things
needing to be counted, it could take up to 2 weeks to complete. progress. Target date is June 3rd, so put it on your calendar!
The Placer facility is monitored by cameras 24/7. According to Ryan Cornhole
Ronco, the public is always welcome to see any of what they do up close
and personal. Every aspect of the ballot counting is open to public
viewing. For more information go to their web site: https:// Cornhole is a game where teams of 2 players take turns throwing bean
www.placercountyelections.gov. bags at a raised, angled board with a hole in the far end.
For more information about our group, contact Randy at The goal is to land bean bags in the hole or on top of the board. Teams
r2d2nelson@gmail.com or log onto our group page at https:// are established each time from a lottery draw.
www.theclubatwestparkca.com/cri. To join our group, contact Alice at Our intent is to play outside but if the weather is bad we will play in the
klanga@comcast.net . Wellness Room. Cornhole plays on the first and third weeks of each
month. In April we will play on Mondays, April 3rd and 17th. And then
Club Crafters on Wednesdays April 5th and 19th. Monday play is at 1:00 pm and
Whatever your craft or hobby is, we would like to invite you to join Wednesday play is at 5:30 pm.
us. We meet every Tuesday at 10 AM in the library. Dig out those A sign-up email is sent out approximately one week before scheduled
unfinished projects and come have a cup of coffee with us, and I play. We’ve had great turnout so in order to give everyone a chance to
guarantee lots of good conversation and laughs. If you would like more play, we ask that initially you only sign up for your first choice. Then
information about our group, please contact Dona Smith at (916) 771- place your name on the wait list for the other day. If there is room for
8039 or email donaann1@surewest.net. additional players, we’ll notify those players from the waitlist.
In January, Cornhole started a new competition. We are keeping track of
Club Trekkers everyone’s individual score and their two highest scores in a month are
used for the competition. The highest scoring individuals for the first six
The Club Trekkers conduct hikes on the first and third Tuesdays of each months of the year will receive a prize in July.
month and the Saturdays immediately following those Tuesdays. On the All levels of players are welcome – we’ll teach you the fundamentals if
other Saturdays of the month we conduct neighborhood walks. Two you haven’t played before.
days before each hike or walk we send out an email with details

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