Sorry you got the wrong impression from Barry - the annual meeting last
night had a pre-scheduled program with invited speakers on the issue of ending
discrimination against same-sex couples in Boulder's occupancy ordinance.
And - We may have indeed come up with a good compromise to get this
done.
But we did not have time to take on other issues last night - so don't take
Barry saying you could not speak as a slight to you or the electronic
voting issue.
We have done lots of work to object to the county's decision to purchase
the electronic voting system - I spoke at the commissioners meeting, others
from our Board have appeared and raised objections, Joe Pezillo gave a
presentation to our Board and we endorsed his objections, we have aligned
with Bob McGrath, have asked the state ACLU to review this,
etc. I don't think we are lacking information or advocacy on this
issue.
You know, Evan, despite all the differences and disputes you
have had with the ACLU - remember that we are all just a bunch of
volunteers who are trying to do good things - we may come at it from
different approaches, but in the end, we are all generally of the same mind on
civil liberties and open government issues. assigning bad motives to
misunderstanding or perhaps just inattention doesn't advance our causes much -
Judd
----Original Message Follows----
From: Evan Daniel Ravitz
<evan@xxxxxxxx>
To: cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Barry Satlow
<bsat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Don't bother with ACLU tonite; apologies
for Satlow's insincere invitation
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:40:57 -0600
(MDT)
Citizens for Verifiable Voting folks, I hope you don't waste
your
time going to the ACLU meeting tonight. Barry Satlow told me
Thursday we could address the multitudes -since it is their annual
meeting.
But tonight I remembered how I wasted 2 hours to talk 2
minutes last
time I went to a regular ACLU meeting, and how Chair Barry
Satlow
interrupted or just spoke during everyone else's attempts to talk,
except one: Simon Mole, who ranks on the State Board.
I called
Barry just now, and sure enough, he had no intention of
talking about
voting systems tonight, or letting us do so, as he'd
led me to believe
Thursday.
I have plenty else to say about the current Boulder ACLU,
but I quit
their Board long ago and am done with it.
Our petition
is going swimmingly, which you can see at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?hand&1
Last I checked, after 48 hours 121 have volunteered to hand count
the 2004 election.
Evan
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