RE: Was the Daily Camera really there ??: Paper Beats Electric...

["Kaufman, Kevin" <kaufmank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Mr. Richards
	While we appreciate your interest in the inner workings of the Daily
Camera, when and where we choose to send reporters, etc., those decisions
are internal editorial decisions and do not appear relevant necessarily say
to the public debate over the county's decision to use or not use electronic
voting. We certainly are not compelled to take any extraordinary measures to
identify ourselves to all in attendance at an open, public meeting.
Additionally, there are many, many ways to track and cover any particular
story.
	The essential question is did the Camera report on this important
decision in a timely, fair, balanced and accurate manner? Yes, it did. Will
it continue to explore this is issue? Will it continue to follow
developments? Yes, it will.
	Again, thanks for your interest. Please keep us abreast of items you
believe are of readers' interest.
	... kk

Kevin C. Kaufman
City editor, Daily Camera
(303) 473-1349


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter or Alison Richards [mailto:aprichards@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 December, 2003 8:34 AM
To: jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx; Newsroom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
KaufmanK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; DeansS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: bcv@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:Was the Daily Camera really there ??: Paper Beats
Electric...


From:  Peter Richards

To:  Joe Pezzillo and CVV  gang;

Cc:  Daily Camera Newsroom
        Kevin Kaufman - Daily Camera City Editor
        Sue Deans - Daily Camera Editor

Date:  Sat., 13 December 2003,    08:30 am

Re:  Was the Daily Camera really there - again. ?  (Friday, 12 December)

It was good for the Daily Camera to have a front page story today (below
the fold) about the decision made yesterday morning, at the meeting of
the Boulder County election officials.   Headline:  'Paper beats electric
for voting system'

As two members of the public who were at the meeting yesterday, Neal
McBurnett and I were not able to identify any reporters from the Daily
Camera present in the room.   Richard Valenty (Colorado Daily) and Berny
Morson (Rocky Mountain News)  were there...  Times Call...?   Denver Post
..?

My guess is the Daily Camera ran this story as a result of the CVV press
release you sent out late yesterday afternoon...

I am Cc'ing this to some Daily Camera folks, to see if there is a good
reason they were not there at the meeting yesterday morning...

Bye,  Peter Richards



On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:04:51 -0700 "Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> Paper beats electric for voting system
> County decides to wait for national standards
> 
> By Ryan Morgan, Camera Staff Writer
> December 13, 2003
> 
> Boulder County election officials have decided they would rather not 
>  
> act in haste and repent in leisure when it comes to adopting a new  
> 
> generation of voting machines.
> 
> The county has decided to put off buying new electronic voting  
> machines, said Tom Halicki, the county's election manager. It will,  
> 
> however, still try to buy a new non-electronic system in the next 
> few  
> weeks, "We're pulling one half of the equation out," he said. The 
> move  
> pleased local critics of electronic voting.
> 
> (more...)
> 
> <http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/city_news/article/ 
> 0,1713,BDC_2422_2501253,00.html>
> 
> 
>