Re: Welcome to the bcv list

["joe pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks indeed for setting this up, I hope we get enough participants to 
need it!

I've attended the last three of these meetings, Avante, Diebold and the 
"comparison shopping" session on Saturday.

I share many of the concerns that I've heard mentioned already and at 
the meeting on Saturday. I've read some frightening documents detailing 
how to tamper with one of these systems undetected and also seen some 
specific accusations of vote manipulation on the internet, and feel 
this is simply too important an issue to ignore. I've been alarmed at 
the lack of public participation myself, so I'm very encouraged to have 
met some of the folks on this list and hope to see this issue brought 
to greater scrutiny by citizens as soon as possible.

The previous two vendor presentations were videotaped, if you have the 
time to watch them, perhaps you can get copies of the tapes from Linda 
S.

I will prepare the research I've got later this week once I've seen all 
the vendor presentations.

I also suggest that we try to meet again in person to discuss how we 
can be most effective in protecting citizens voting rights. There are 
other groups that have been active in this process with whom we should 
try to connect, and probably others that are concerned about this issue 
but don't know how to participate.

Thanks again for setting up this mailing list and getting involved in 
this issue.

Joe Pezzillo
Boulder, Colorado