RE: Paper only in Pitkin

["Paul Tiger" <tigerp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to confound this. There are five counties in CO that use punch card
systems. those can't be used in 2004.

Separately, Boulder's card system failed two years ago and has to be
replaced with something. The commissioners asked that DREs be looked at.
This has nothing to do with law. paper balloting would do just fine, but
something must be done about replacing our broken card system.

Paul Tiger

-----Original Message-----
From: Neal McBurnett [mailto:neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:50 AM
To: BCV; mlambie@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Paper only in Pitkin

The HAVA deadline for accessibility is 2006, not 2004.  There is no
waiver required - it has always been 2006.

There is no ADA requirement specific to voting at all that I've ever
heard of.  It is a much older law.

There is no requirement for DREs at all, just a requrement for
accessible voting systems in 2006, where accessibility is
to-be-defined by the EAC which has not even been created yet.

Citations to HAVA on these points has been posted here, confirmed by
state officials, etc.

So even without the waivers that we expect to see, we don't need DREs
now!

I'm glad to get the sense that Pitkin County understands this stuff
better than some here.

I don't know why this misinformation about a 2004 deadline for touch
screens is coming from....

Neal McBurnett                 http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:51:11AM -0700, Paul Tiger wrote:
> David said that he was 'filling in a space on a scannable piece of paper'.
> The spreadsheet shows an ES&S optical scanner. It shows it for all methods
> of balloting.
>
> If this is correct, then it means that the only method that they have is
OS.
> That won't comply with ADA for 2004. One wonders when Pitkin plans to buy
> DRE and when?