television broadcasts the first internet visual t v brings you g v t v news with local and world news from nevada county california if you have any newsworthy items please e mail them to us at news at g v t v dot org and now for some local news despite some calls for city manager mark miller's ouster many flocked to city hall wednesday night and told city leaders that miller isn't the problem instead said the blame should be scattered among city elected and appointed officials for decades of institutionalized management and financial woes well i've made significant progress addressing these concerns and bringing the city into the twenty first century his supporters say these are just old problems and compound it over the years said bob dole chip bullets should better decision have been made yes a group of merchants including crowder and confectionery mary mine have said no or should leave because of criticism of city management cited in a nevada county grand jury report a lawsuit brought by a former employee and consultant report blamed miller for many of the city's financial and management problems with such a lots of days it will attitude we will see you next year for the response of the two thousand and seven two thousand and eight report crowder said wednesday to a packed room at city hall crowd wanted council members to discuss his concerns about miller's performance and attitude city attorney jim anderson cited concerns about miller as a personal matter that only can be discussed in closed session crowder and gary stollery owner of to hall books on north pine called for miller's resignation or firing in an advertisement in wednesday's edition of beginning to add states it was paid for by concerned citizens and business owners of nevada city crowder declined to name others in this group saying they aren't ready to come forward at this point peter van sant didn't share crowder's concerns instead saying the city has made significant progress on many fronts during miller's tenure successful passage of the transportation sales tax measure hiring a new fire finance manager and two new community service officers and resolving the dispute over the deer creek to neighborhood are key accomplishments the miller has led performance reviews for miller and anderson city officials the council evaluates directly be completed within five and a half months council member said that won't be soon enough for resident bill i can't believe our city council is going to give these people or a raise thank god is referring to an item later on wednesdays agenda council members had not decided on a proposal to share salaries for city employees by press time miller and city finance volatile were included in the proposed raises about a county's preferred preference for paper ballots over touch screen voting machines spared the county from a last minute scramble to buy new equipment six months before february two thousand and eight election about accounting clerk recorder gregory dia's on wednesday commanded the local committees made up of citizens and former clerk recorder that recommended the county's new voting system purchased from heart they did a good job evaluating the vendor d s will probably have the most secure election ever in nevada county has answered questions about the machines from people attending the nevada county fair on opening day the elections office has set up a booth the fair to demonstrate using a machine in the main street center through sunday the new system consists of optical ballots scanners and touch screen voting machines the board of supervisors approved via the hart optical scanners for its polling stations in june the scanners make a digital record of paper ballots that voters fill out by hand reports in a lock box in addition to the county approved of buying one touch screen machine for each station the minimum required by the federal help america vote act to provide accessible voting to people with disabilities but a university of california research team found the touch screen machines are vulnerable to hackers given unlimited time and access to security codes based on the researchers reports secretary of state debra bowen last week certified touch screen voting machines made by heart diebold and sequoia to use the researchers found the optical scanners were less of a vulnerable to hacking although they weren't to evan goldberg is spokesman for the secretary of state's office some california election office shelves have criticized boeing for rushing her announcement has welcomed the new security measures which she says will improve the count election procedures but no matter how many security measures the elections office puts in place some nevada county residents so they remain skeptical of electronic voting machines in general after testing out the heart interest of optical ballot scanner at the county fair valley resident russell barbour said he was still suspicious of the machine bowen set forth thirty six conditions of heart optical scanners some of the conditions are already exist and two conditions require actions the secretary of state has added only fourteen other conditions are the county's responsibility our new actions requiring the combined efforts of the county and heart enter civic along the new conditions cited expanded poll worker training as an improvement over  policy as well as new restrictions that require to pull workers to be present at each stage of voting machines chain of custody or movement from polling station back to the elections office  for counting nevada county residents carol who participated in seven member citizen panel that reviewed voting machines in winter optical scanners were more desirable than touch screen machines because of their paper trail we wanted to support having as many paper ballots as possible in addition to paper records the heart intercept machine creates a digital record that makes it possible to go back into the system and figure out what the voters intended in the event of a dispute cones police continue in an extensive search for the suspects and thought that they had entered the nevada union high school campus police were unable to locate the suspects i love a nineteen p m caller from eastbound on highway twenty at empire street reported the traffic lights had stayed red on wednesday five forty eight a m a man from the six hundred block of why new street reported his car was covered in shaving cream and plastic wrap said a brown ford pickup was a black rock and a flop was near the motor home and had been there for several days police notified the people in the motor home of the campus ordinances and they moved on they were visiting neighbors in arcadia thousand five hundred block of thoroughbred loop part of did he was out of town on business and his son had a party the previous night and there were multiple people in his residence who would not leave at eleven thirty a m when man from the ten thousand three hundred block of adam avenue part of someone was calling him three to four times a day threatening to beat him up advised of a restraining order that was in process at twelve thirty three p m a caller from north bloomfield road reported a man was walking in the middle of the road trying to stop traffic he was wearing a white shirt black shorts and tennis shoes so he was advised to fifty eight p m woman from the seventeen thousand nine hundred block of penn valley drive reported the collection company was to in money from her account without authorization police determined that it was grand theft of more than four hundred dollars and at four thirty six p m caller from the fifteen thousand eight hundred block of clar around the world knows u s troops and warplanes have waged a major attack on the shiite neighborhood of baghdad will say at least thirty two iraqi militants have been killed by iraqi police say at least nine of the dead were civilians the washington post hundreds of baghdad it was held protests last night against the u s for attacking center city and twenty four hours before the start of a major shiite holiday meanwhile iraqi officials have imposed a strict curfew and banned all the traffic and baghdad  the country such a degree could restrict freedom of speech and movement this year's elections could also be postponed or suspended some critics say the move might be an attempt for him to cling to power amid separate challenges from countries  possibility of emergency rule pakistan information minister said it has been discussed however the head of the shore's pakistan muslim league said there are no possibility of such a move meanwhile some seven hundred via holes bored into the mountain top but there have been no signs that the miners are still alive and the nation's largest loss ocean is preparing to vote on a resolution condemning president bush's recent executive order and torture because it is with the geneva conventions the vote will take place during the american bar association annual meeting in san francisco the resolution calls on congress to ensure that wherever detainees are held government agencies they are protected under common article three of the geneva conventions which guarantee basic rights of human humane treatment for individuals caught in armed conflict the guard of their status the resolution already been supported by the a b a standing committee on law and national security in the election news south carolina republican party of the portal to be prepared to move two thousand and eight presidential primary hold its primary on february second but then decided to move ahead one florida primary would be on january twenty ninth the earlier voting could create the longest ever general election campaign the nominees from the major two parties could be largely decided by mid january almost ten months before election day and in california republican strategists are preparing to gather signatures for a ballot initiative that would alter how the state awards it a move that could help the republican win the white house in two thousand story corps the winner of the presidential election in california wins all of the state's fifty five electoral votes backers of the ballot initiative want to apportion electoral votes by presidential candidate mitt romney forced on wednesday to defend a decision of his five sons not to join the military how to bring questions to campaign stop in iowa romney said his sons have made their other decision to help the country other decision he said one of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think i'd be a great president romney's five sons range from age twenty six to thirty seven and have worked as real estate developers sports marketers and advertising executives they're not actively campaigning for their father and have a five brothers blog on romney's campaign site and their website alternate is reporting two thirds of the country and african american voters in columbus attorney aren't back said the extent of the searching of records is consistent with covering up fraud that we believe occurred and presidential election and news from washington president bush said wednesday that he is inclined to push for more tax cuts for the u s corporations treasury secretary henry paulson has bought bush on various possibilities for overhauling the corporate tax structure to make it more advantages for s business paper paulson released last month outlined how corporate tax cuts could be reduced by eighty percent and the israeli newspaper haaretz is reporting that palestinian faction abuses committed last year in the state i think it's expectation that talk shall begin so that we finally can bring this nightmare to an end and i think i feel how deep the pain is here you meet people who have gone through conflict from different directions and have stories of war behind them memories and images of the worst atrocities that you can imagine and in california six peace activists were arrested after they refused to leave the office of democratic congresswoman loretta sanchez they were calling on her to oppose any additional iraq fishman helped form the veterans of abraham lincoln brigade the old fisherman appeared on democracy now and april paul fishman stated international brigade of which we are a part consisted of about  fight they put up which came to demand them our chrissy's two and a half year window of opportunity to change from the policy of the pins in fascism led by chamberlayne of britain and subscribed to b and out of cincinnati republican presidential candidate rudy gal yani said thursday that he had exposed himself to the same health risk as workers at ground zero after september eleventh two thousand and one terrorist attacks and spent as much time at the side as those involved in recovery a governor or a president who's sitting in an r v tower he said i was at ground zero as often if not more than most of the workers i was there working with them i was exposed exactly the same things that they were exposed who spent twelve months living through the talks had to put these for evidence and human remains as a result of their hard work many are sick and injured there although he did a fine job with nine eleven i don't think he rises to the level of been an equal with those men and women who are involved in the rescue recovery and cleanup probably cat is going on and spoke to reporters at a los angeles dodgers cincinnati reds game where the former new york mayor writes a little baseball between fundraising next appearances i have a chance of winning ohio i have a chance of winning new york i have a chance of winning california who also mentioned new jersey connecticut michigan minnesota  could when we've got to put these states in play ohio doesn't hold its primary and till march fourth but the state traditionally has a critical swing state in the general election going on no one thinks the war on terror more than his differences with the republicans on abortion rights is a key issue i believe the most important issue has been on all fronts against islamic terrorism he said i think there is no candidate in the race that has that much experience with that as i do he also said he's a fiscal conservative in contrast to the democrats for runners who want to raise taxes and have filmmaker michael moore style socialized medicine going on all planned to be part of the even is freedom concert led by conser