RE: Paper only in Pitkin

["Paul Tiger" <tigerp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've just heard that Donetta is saying that VVPB is bad because printers
break down.

My response would be that you can see printers failing because they are an
electromechanical device. You cannot see what is happening inside a digital
only box.

My home computer 'crashes' far more often than my printer hiccups. Donetta
is brain dead.

Paul Tiger

-----Original Message-----
From: Mcgrath, Bob___PI_Mkt [mailto:bob.mcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:52 AM
To: 'Neal McBurnett'; BCV; mlambie@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Paper only in Pitkin

someone needs to clear this up with Donetta Davidson, Drew Durham, et al.
We need to get a definitive ruling on this so we can inform others.  I will
take this upon part of the charge that CVI needs to study...

-----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?