mtg w/Daily Camera editorial board

[Laura Price <laura@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just received this message in response to my plea to the Daily Camera 
Editorial Board to lend some attention to the electronic voting issue.

I'll keep you apprised of the meeting time and perhaps we can select a group to 
attend to represent CVV. 

laura.

btw, Steve Millard is the Editorial Page Editor

----- Forwarded message from "Millard, Steve" <millards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -----
    Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:20:05 -0700 
    From: "Millard, Steve" <millards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: "Millard, Steve" <millards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Subject: RE: Laura Price's voicemail
      To: 'Laura Price' <laura@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi Laura - We'd like to meet with the group. Give me a day to get through
post-election mopup around here and I'll try to schedule a time. - Steve







-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Price [mailto:laura@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 12:00 PM
To: millards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Laura Price's voicemail


Hi Steve,

Oops, I was too verbose on the voicemail I just left for you.  It cut me off

while I was leaving a contact #.  My work number is 303 449-9861, x324.

As I mentioned in the voicemail, I am not sure if the Editorial Board is 
willing to consider Boulder County's selection of an electronic voting
system 
as a topic on which to take a position.  This issue of electronic voting 
systems has only recently made national news and I believe many Boulder
County 
residents are unaware that our county is poised to select one of the vendors

mentioned in these articles.  Accuracy in election results is critical to
the 
sustenance of our democratic system and I hope the Editorial Board of the
Daily 
Camera agrees.

If you or any other members of the Board wish to contact me or the
spokesperson 
for Citizens for Verifiable Voting, (Joe Pezillo, 303 938-8850) please feel 
free.

The mission statement adopted by CVV is included below as a reference point
for 
what we represent.


Thanks for your time, Laura Price.

Citizens for Verifiable Voting 

a Boulder County non-partisan organization concerned with preservation of
our 
democracy, insist that Boulder County immediately stop its process of
selecting 
and purchasing new electronic voting machines. 

We demand that the county only use a transparent, honest, verifiable and 
accurate voting system that protects and ensures the sanctity, privacy and 
integrity of every persons vote, the most important act of citizenship in a 
democracy.

We find that none of the systems under consideration by Boulder County can
meet 
our concerns, none provide for a secure and verifiable paper trail with 
meaningful recountability, and therefore none give us confidence in the 
results. 

Furthermore, since technical standards for election systems have not yet
been 
developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as
required 
under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), it is premature, fiscally 
irresponsible, and imprudent for Boulder County to select any new voting
system 
at this time. 

We are very concerned with the vulnerability of all electronic systems for 
fraud, irretrievable data loss, and disenfranchisement in vote recording and

counting.   We do recognize that some elements of electronic devices may be 
needed to allow citizens with disabilities to generate verifiable paper 
ballots, in compliance with HAVA and the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA).

Specifically, we call on Boulder County officials, our state and national 
elected officials and our fellow citizens to: 

Ø     Insist on the use of paper ballots as the single, official record of
the 
vote; 

Ø     Allow no secret or proprietary software in any voting machines or vote

counting machines;

Ø     Recognize that accuracy is the most important aspect in the elections,

not speed of completing the counts; and

Ø     Support election reform laws at the local, state, and national level
that 
encompass and resolve all of the above concerns.
 

Prepared this day of November 3, 2003 by Citizens for Verifiable Voting, a 
Boulder County based non-partisan group of citizens dedicated to protecting
the 
principles of our democracy.

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