People win - Colorado legislature resolves -- "voter-verifiable paper ballots must be deemed to be official ballots"

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Colorado legislators. They have heard our concerns and have gone on record to support our viewpoint – trustworthy elections require verifiable vote recording and verifiable vote interpretation and counting.

In its final day of the session, Colorado’s House joined the Senate and resolved to officially recognize that “paperless voting systems are a source of concern to its citizens” and to put on record that the legislature “requires that voter-verifiable paper ballots must be deemed to be official ballots”.

The resolution was unanimously passed in the Senate. It was passed in the House on a bi-partisan 59 YES, 6 NO vote.

Resolution, SJR04-010 -- Concerning paperless voting systems, can be read in its entirety at http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/EE30664863D3275787256DDE0076626B?Open&file=SJR010_rer.pdf

Sponsors: Senator Keller (D); and Representative Jahn (D)

Co-sponsors: Representatives Clapp (R), Cloer (R), Lundberg (R), Madden (D), McFadyen (D), Merrifield (D), Mitchell (R), Paccione (D), Plant (D), Rhodes (R), Schultheis (R), Williams S (D).

While a resolution does not have force of law, it does place Colorado squarely on record as acknowledging that, “The mechanisms of DRE equipment are invisible and concealed from voters and election officials as well as parties of contending interest, thus making verification, recount, or audit that is independent of such paperless DRE utterly impossible”.

Please let legislators know that we deeply appreciate their support of this resolution.

Al Kolwicz

Executive Director

CAMBER

Citizens for Accurate Mail Ballot Election Results

2867 Tincup Circle

Boulder, CO 80305

303-494-1540

AlKolwicz@xxxxxxxxx

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