Re: Two Letter's to the Editor, Daily Camera, today, 11 November

[Peter or Alison Richards <aprichards@xxxxxxxx>]

Laura et al...

Donna Rhodes did write a very good letter today...

It would be interesting to have a little biographical information about
her, background in this issue, etc., and I do hope she makes it to the
meeting tomorrow night.

On a completely different topic,  How to Structure a Municipal
Government,  I have a Letter to the Editor also in the Daily Camera
today...

It is a followup piece to the Districting Election (Issue 2C) that the
City of Boulder voted on last Tuesday.

I would be interested in any and all comments....

Best,  Peter Richards    303 449-2825


On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:53:32 -0700 Laura Price <laura@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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
> 
>