Tiger admits hand-counting is legal

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

Paul Tiger told BCV several times that hand-counting is illegal. He's
changed his mind. I asked him to email the list, but he hasn't. It's
important that our positions be based on fact, so I'm forwarding his
message to the list... Evan


On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Paul Tiger wrote:

> Evan,
>
> I've done some more research into hand tallies and I think I was wrong. It
> doesn't appear to be the law based on populations in a given precinct as I
> had thought.
>
> It looks as though the clerk would simply need to inform the SoS that hand
> tallies were going to be done in a given precinct. In some smaller Colorado
> counties that have just a handful of precincts hand tallies have been and
> are being done.
> I can't tell if the SoS must approve this or not.
>
> Boulder has over 250 precincts and 191,560 voters. If the SoS has some or
> any say in whether or not hand tallies can be done, my guess is that Donetta
> would blow a fuse if we tried to do this.
> All the same, the statutes let the SoS and the clerk work this out, as far
> as I can tell.
>
> Paul Tiger
>