RE: CO Election Reform Legislative Action

["Pete Klammer" <pklammer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am willing to chair a Legislative Advisory Subcommittee for the following
purpose:

> From: Bob McGrath, Director, CVI
> [...]
> Toward that end, we are proposing to arrange a meeting, to be 
> spearheaded by Pete Klammer (new CVI Board Member) along with any 
> interested Boulder CVV folks, to strategize what points we 
> want to pursue with state legislators, with the goal of 
> setting up a citizen's advisory 
> group which could meet with these state legislators that 
> could help influence drafting of legislation to be released 
> in January.  The titles of the 
> Bill and the Resolution on Election Reform have been 
> "reserved" for this next legislative session, according to 
> Pete.  That means there is a 
> placeholder for both a bill and a resolution on the general 
> topic of election reform; I believe we now need to bring our 
> wish list to these folks to 
> provide them with the content to include in the same.   In my 
> discussion with Moe Keller she was extremely appreciative of 
> the fact that 
> Coloradoans for Voting Integrity has come about and expressed 
> a desire to meet with us and work with us, as well as 
> expressing appreciation 
> for the work that Pete Klammer has done to date on this 
> issue.  I also have informed her of the seminal and 
> groundbreaking work of CVV in 
> Boulder and she looks forward to learning more.
> [...]
> Pete, since you have been working with Alice Madden and Moe 
> Keller on these issues, and since Moe expressed a willingness 
> to find Republican 
> co-sponsors and to take this issue to the state Democratic 
> Party and its respective leadership in the Senate and House, 
> I am hoping you may 
> be willing to help us lead or coordinate this effort.  Please 
> let me know if you would like help in contacting these 
> legislators to arrange for a time 
> to meet.  

In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that I have communicated TO
Rep. Alice Madden, but not WITH her; I suspect that my not being a Boulder
constituent might have something to do with it.  We should be able to expect
more responsive engagement if she is addressed by a coordinated group.

The Resolution, sponsored by Sen. Moe Keller, has gone through a couple
revisions already and a draft is in her legislative aide's hands; I will
post it to the Legislative section of our forum right ... NOW.

> All:  Please identify whether you wish to serve on a 
> sub-committee for this purpose, and your availability between 
> now and the end of the year 
> to meet with the Colorado legislators who are currently 
> drafting this legislation. 
> 
> First, if you haven't yet done so, please go to register to 
> use our Coloradoans for Voting Integrity website:
> 
> http://www.countthevotecolorado.org/forum/reg.cfm
> 
> Then, please go to this link to vote on which TIME you can make for a
legislative meeting and provide any SUGGESTIONS FOR LEGISLATION HERE TOO:
>
www.countthevotecolorado.org/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=12&threadid=23&STAR
TPAGE=1  

Ah-HAH! The "VoteHere!" link on that page is a Forum Poll, where you can
choose one of four dates, Dec. 15, 18, 22, or 23, 6:30-9:00PM, for the first
meeting of the Legislative Advisory Subcommittee.  MY PREFERENCE, if I may
sound a note of lobbying here, would be "as soon as possible, but no
sooner," with the caveat that Monday the 15th gives us about zero weekday
time to muster attention from our legislators; therefore I urge you that
might attend to vote for the 18th.

--
Pete Klammer / ACM(1970), IEEE, ICCP(CCP), NSPE(PE), NACSE(NSNE)
    3200 Routt Street / Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033-5452
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 Idealism may not win every contest, but that's not what I choose it for!