Re: What is Boulder County trying to hide?

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, Paul and Bo, you don't appear to have a clue about what you're  
talking about, but please, feel free keep making your party (and  
yourselves) look so bad.

And according to Clay Evans in the Daily Camera:

http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/insight/article/ 
0,1713,BDC_2494_3093344,00.html

"But all is not perfect. In Tuesday's primary election, ballots will be  
printed with a serial number that theoretically could be traced back to  
individual voters. Salas admits there's a small, theoretical  
possibility of vote-tracking, but says the secretary of state's office  
has OK'd the ballots."

This is the same argument the Clerks and SoS keep using AGAINST systems  
like Avante or adding a paper trail to existing systems, that there's a  
"small but theoretical" chance that someone could determine the  
sequence of voting, and thus identify individual voters, "so we can't  
use any of those systems". Does anyone remember that Avante offered us  
use of the exact same system (ballot on demand printing with optical  
scanning) FOR FREE for this year (with no purchase, i.e., exactly what  
the citizens asked for)? Remember how we were told that system wasn't  
certified, guess what, that was a LIE from the Secretary of State and  
County Clerk. Where was the Libertarian outrage at that? There was  
none, there was only silence and complicity.

Why are there a couple Libertarians who insist on being freelance  
apologists for the Clerk and spending their time attacking patriotic  
citizens? Remember when the Libertarians bitched and hollered in the  
Commissioner's public record about how the Citizens were a bunch of  
idiots until the day after the purchase was approved and then said,  
"uh, I guess the citizens were right after all..." You'd think that  
Libertarians would want to hold the County accountable for their waste  
of one and a half million bucks on this at best half-baked system, but  
no, they've chosen to attack people who are doing their job for them.

Instead, Bo Shaffer, the ring leader of the local Libertarians along  
with his best-known local character Paul Tiger, accuse Al Kolwicz of  
lying, but Bo conveniently forgets to say what it is he'd lied about,  
and Paul adds his own misinformation to the mix instead. Perhaps they  
don't know what they're talking about yet again?

At least there's one Libertarian who speaks the truth, they should have  
read Ralph Shnelvar's article beforehand, he reaffirms what Al has been  
saying all along, and what many truly patriotic citizens have already  
learned, trust elections officials at your own risk, and indeed, at  
risk to Our Democracy. Elections Officials here and nationwide have  
repeatedly proven themselves to be untrustworthy, it's not the citizens  
who did that to them, they did it all on their own with their painful  
mix of hubris and ignorance. It wasn't Al Kolwicz's fault that Boulder  
County used uncertified equipment last time, or that the entire  
election had to be recounted. It wasn't the citizen's fault that we've  
been robbed of a million and a half bucks for some Texas corporation's  
secret vote counting system that has yet to be proven that it works  
acceptably or accurately anywhere in the nation.

Libertarians should be leaders in holding Government accountable,  
instead, they're acting like junior thugs for the state.

Democrats are likewise silent out of some pathetic "party loyalty" for  
their County Clerk (and failure to protect democracy for their own  
party members). Don't forget that the Democrats are the same party who  
failed to have a single one of their senators sign the challenge to the  
2000 election, the same party that killed the paper ballot bill in the  
Colorado legislature earlier this year, and the same party that failed  
to send an independent representative to the official test of this  
system locally.

I never thought I'd say this, but God Bless the Republicans for having  
the guts to represent the people on this issue.

If the County presses charges against Al Kolwicz for trying to test our  
elections system under real world conditions instead of an artificial  
"It works great, don't look behind the curtain" test, Boulder County  
will have shamed itself while all of you sat by and watched your  
democracy go down the drain.

You want to prevent that from happening? Start on 33rd Street in  
Boulder with real intent to secure a Trustworthy Election, not at Al  
Kolwicz's e-mail box with cheap shots that protect the real culprits.

As Jesus said (repeatedly), "You Hypocrites!"

Joe

Joe Pezzillo, Citizen Activist
Boulder, Colorado USA
jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx



On Aug 9, 2004, at 2:51 AM, Paul Tiger wrote:

> “Some voters will object to voting with a ballot that is not secret,  
> and will “white out” or cross out the serial number that uniquely  
> identifies their ballot “
>
> [|>] The bar code on the sides of the ballots identify the ballot  
> style, not the individual ballot. Ballot style is about what issues a  
> person can vote on in a particular geographical location. My wife and  
> I would have the same ballot style in a general election, but  
> different in a primary. We live in the same house, but we are members  
> of different parties. I get a Libertarian ballot, she gets a  
> Democratic ballot. If we were members of the same party the barcodes  
> would be identical.
>
>  A few blocks from here I have a friend who is a Libertarian. His  
> ballot style is different, because he lives in a different precinct.  
> His barcodes look different from mine.
>
>  
>
> Paul Tiger
>
> tigerp@xxxxxxxxx
>
> www.PaulTiger.com
>
>  
>
> "In order to have an effective technology, reality must take  
> precedence over public relations.
>
> For nature cannot be fooled."
>
>      Dr. Richard P. Feynman
>
>  
>
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