Re: HB 1227 - URGENT

[Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Al:

Uh, this only seems to be the fiscal impact statement.

My comments, below.

Ralph

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:50:59 -0700, you wrote:

>CVV members -
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>HB 1227 is the big monster.  It was heard yesterday in the house committee,
>and Rep. Schultheis succeeded in getting the bill laid over.  It will be
>picked up again - probably Tuesday or Thursday.
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>The bill was written by the Secretary of State and is sponsored by Rep.
>Sinclair - the chairman of the committee.  (Tact required.)
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>It is a big bill - 37 pages.
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>Will you review the bill and let me know your recommendations?  I'd like to
>feed these comments to friends on the committee before Monday morning.
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>Thanks
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>Al
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>Bill text -
>http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FB1F65795D162E6787
>256DF8005F214E?Open
><http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FB1F65795D162E678
>7256DF8005F214E?Open&file=HB1227_00.pdf> &file=HB1227_00.pdf 
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>Appropriations -
>http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FB1F65795D162E6787
>256DF8005F214E?Open
><http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FB1F65795D162E678
>7256DF8005F214E?Open&file=HB1227_00.pdf> &file=HB1227_00.pdf 
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"When a political subdivision adopts an electronic or electromechanical
voting system, copies of the software, program source code, and
documentation of the system must be sent to the Secretary of State."

Does that mean that for the machine to be legal the all source code must be
given to the SoS or does it mean that only available source code must be
given?

What about BIOS and OS source code?  Does the SoS get a copy of Windows XP,
for instance?



"It is assumed that the department may collect as much as $16,000 in
reimbursements from vendors per year"

That is way too low.  It amounts to less than a person-month per
manufacturer to offset the cost of validating a huge system.




Ralph