RE: alice madden's bill on evoting (fwd)

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

Don't you think we should propose language to Rep. Madden?

If necessary, can we propose and vote on language by email?

Evan

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Al Kolwicz wrote:

>
> Evan,
>
> I'm not speaking for CVV, but I know that both Coloradoans for Voting
> Integrity and CAMBER agree that the topics of the bill are very important
> and must be dealt with this session.  However, they both find that the
> solution proposed does not achieve the intended objective.
>
> The bill proposes to provide voters a verifiable ballot by requiring vendors
> of DRE's to print an audit trail, in addition to the digital ballot recorded
> in the DRE memory.  An audit trail does not give voters a verifiable ballot.
> In fact, two ballots per voter (one verified but not counted, and one
> unverified and counted) makes things worse than they are now.
>
> What we require is the only ballot must be a full-ballot-text voter
> verifiable paper ballot, and (2) only the voter verified paper ballot may be
> counted or recounted.
>
> Al
>
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> Al Kolwicz
> CAMBER - Citizens for Accurate Mail Ballot Election Results
> 2867 Tincup Circle    Boulder, CO 80305
> 303-494-1540
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evan Daniel Ravitz [mailto:evan@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 6:40 PM
> To: bcv@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: alice madden's bill on evoting (fwd)
>
>
> What is BCV's position on HB 1296?  -Evan
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:53:10 -0700
> From: J.B. Holston <jbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: evan@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: alice madden's bill on evoting
>
> Hi Evan; are you folks supporting her bill (HB 1296) ?  I noted your
> comments on the weblog.  Have you given her specific amendment language that
> you'd prefer?
>
> Best,
>
> J.B. Holston
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