I got Plan Boulder, the folks responsible for Open Space and growth control in Boulder since the 50s, to send this letter... Evan
February 19, 2004
Boulder County Commissioners Boulder County Courthouse 13th & Pearl Streets Boulder, CO 80302
Re: Selection of Election Equipment
Dear County Commissioners:
PLAN Boulder County would like to comment on the proposed Hart InterCivic Optical Scan system for voting in Boulder County. We have the following suggestions and concerns:
Trustworthy elections require voter-verified, full-text, physically marked paper ballots.
The county should lease equipment until the technical standards required by the HAVA have been finalized.
The Elections division must incorporate procedures to hand-count a statistically significant random sample of ballots to verify the machine counts are accurate.
Any contract for purchase or lease should allow full public disclosure of the software used in any voting machines or vote counting machines. This is necessary to assure accuracy and reliability.
Voter confidence in the reliability of elections is essential to our democracy. We hope you will take these comments into consideration in negotiating a contract for voting equipment.
Yours truly,
Claire Levy
PLAN Boulder County Vice-Chair Post Office Box 4682 Boulder, CO 80306