Re: Plan Boulder's letter to Commissioners

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

I'll forward it if you send me their emails

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Joe Pezzillo wrote:

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> Excellent work Evan.
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> Can you make sure Linda Salas and Tom Halicki are also sent a copy?
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> THANK YOU!
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> Joe
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> On Mar 4, 2004, at 10:33 PM, Evan Daniel Ravitz wrote:
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> > I got Plan Boulder, the folks responsible for Open Space and growth
> > control in Boulder since the 50s, to send this letter... Evan
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> > February 19, 2004
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> > Boulder County Commissioners
> > Boulder County Courthouse
> > 13th & Pearl Streets
> > Boulder, CO 80302
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> > Re: Selection of Election Equipment
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> > Dear County Commissioners:
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> > 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:
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> > Trustworthy elections require voter-verified, full-text, physically
> > marked paper ballots.
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> > The county should lease equipment until the technical standards
> > required by the HAVA have been finalized.
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> > The Elections division must incorporate procedures to hand-count a
> > statistically significant random sample of ballots to verify the
> > machine counts are accurate.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > Yours truly,
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> > Claire Levy
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> > PLAN Boulder County Vice-Chair
> > Post Office Box 4682 Boulder, CO 80306
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