Re: letter to the editor, 11/11

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

I'll invite Donna to tomorrows meeting. She's a longtime friend of
mine...

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Laura Price wrote:

> There is a wonderful letter to the editor in the Camera today that echoes many
> of our sentiments.  Not sure if Donna Rhodes is involved with CVV, but thought
> I should share this piece...laura.
>
> http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/letters_to_editor/article/0,1713,BDC_2491_2417818
> ,00.html
>
> VOTING
>
> Electronic systems vulnerable to fraud
>
> I challenge the Daily Camera to do some real investigative journalism, to be
> bold, question authority, and uncover the truth about the push for computerized
> voting in the next major election. It is possible that the greatest voter fraud
> in American history is set to take place in the next presidential election, and
> it will make the last one seem trivial in comparison, unless we citizens do
> something about it.
>
> The "Help America Vote Act" has mandated that all 50 states must have
> computerized voting machines for the 2004 election and Boulder officials are in
> the process of selecting ours. On the surface it appears to make voting much
> easier, but it makes fraud much easier too. The law does not require a printout
> or ballot of our vote and the computer manufacturers are discouraging the use
> of this available technology. Why would anyone be against a verifiable paper
> trail, a check system of sorts? Here are just a few of the problems encountered
> in 2002.
>
> In Scurry County, Texas two Republicans won by a landslide when polls had been
> predicting the Democratic candidates to win by a large margin. The county clerk
> demanded a recount both manually and electronically using a new computer chip
> and indeed the Democrats did win. A faulty chip was to blame that counted
> Democratic votes as Republican. They did not demand a recount in Comal County,
> Texas when three Republican candidates received the exact same number of votes ?
>  18,181. How likely is this coincidence?
>
> In Georgia, the first state to use all-electronic voting, a Republican governor
> was voted into office; the first one since the end of the Civil War, and pre-
> election polls showed the Democratic candidate to be in the lead.
>
> Voters in Florida reported touching the screen to vote for the Democratic
> candidate for governor and having the computer screen show that they had voted
> for the Republican incumbent, Jeb Bush.
>
> In Nebraska, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel was the former CEO of ES&S, the
> voting machine manufacturer that supplied all the voting machines for the state
> of Nebraska. For more information on this subject check out
> www.blackboxvoting.com.
>
> Talk to our local officials about their options in selecting a computerized
> voting machine for us. Get informed, demand a verifiable paper trail and make
> your vote count!
>
> DONNA RHODES, Boulder
>