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Re: HB 1227 - URGENT



alkolwicz wrote:

CVV members –

HB 1227 is the big monster. [...]

I surely do like these parts:

HB04-1227 [Summary, p.2 March 1, 2004]

>>...copies of the software, program source code, and documentation of the system must be sent to the Secretary of State. <<

Here "software" and "program" rather than 'application' broadly interpreted includes the M$ OS!
Wouldn't that be a first if the State of Colorado could get what only the Peoples Republic of China has been able to get!


>> Vendors and election officials must notify the Secretary of State of any malfunction found in a voting system. The Secretary of State is authorized to take specific actions in response to a voting system that fails to comply with the requirements and standards for the system, including decertifying the system. <<

Love those "musts"! My interpretation would be that if the vendors (including M$) and/or the Boulder County Clerk were made aware of the widely-known and interminably uncorrected defects in the Micro$oft Operating system, the SoS MUST be notified, who should (wish it were MUST) decertify the system.

Lou

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