Tom Courbat, Election Monitoring Coordinator
For three elections Tom served as a poll worker and then as a poll inspector (in charge of the precinct workers), thus gaining valuable inside knowledge of the process at the polls. He has been working on election integrity issues since 2004, around the time of the General Election in November, 2004. He worked under the guidance of Dr. Judy Alter and Dan Ashby in a parallel election project in San Diego in 2005, and in the Mayoral Recount that year as well. He has provided occasional ad-hoc assistance in the CA-50 (Busby/Bilbray) group objecting to the use of the Diebold machines contaminated by “sleepovers”. He has done extensive study of publications regarding the Ohio debacle as well as the Florida 2000 shenanigans.
Tom is the former Finance Director of Riverside County, CA and is a 25-year veteran of local government at the executive management level. He has worked for the City of Pasadena, the Counties of Los Angeles, Shasta and Riverside. In addition, he served 10 years (won 3 elections) as an elected board member of the Murrieta County Water District, so he has a perspective from a candidate’s point of view as well. Mr. Courbat holds a B.S. in Marketing Management and Research from California State University at Los Angeles and an MBA in Financial Management from California State University at Chico. He has completed ½ of the courses required for an MBA in Public Administration.
Election integrity (EI) has become a passion for Tom. He took over a budding DFA-Temecula Valley (in Southwest Riverside County, CA) EI project in April, 2006 (SAVE R VOTE) and assembled approximately 70 volunteers that were trained to monitor the election process for the June 6th primary. On July 11, 2006, he presented a 13-page report outlining numerous problems with recommendations to the Board of Supervisors. The goal for November 2006 is to assemble 200 volunteers.
