Over 102 pledge 700 hours to hand count 2004 election FOR FREE

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear Commissioners,

It was unfortuate that your discussion of hand-counting took place
AFTER you closed the public hearing. We were unable to respond.

In less than 44 hours since we started, over 102 Boulder County
voters have pledged a total of some 700 hours of their time, FREE,
to hand count the 2004 election. You can see the results at:

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?hand&1

It includes Al Bartlett, Sheila Horton and Ron Forthover.

Given this success, we think it would be VERY easy for the county to
find the "hundreds" of extra election workers you estimated would be
needed.

That would save at least $1.4 of the $1.5 million of our money you
intend to spend on a proprietary system which has faint hope of
living up to forthcoming NIST standards.

We will be present before 10AM tomorrow to present the results of
our work.

Now at 103 volunteers and counting...

Evan Ravitz et al

Evan Ravitz
1130 11th St. #3
Boulder CO 80302
(303)440-6838