Re: What should we ask for?

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I don't know how much, but here's a back of the napkin 
calculation for you.

Donetta made this comment ("forty cents") on KGNU when I asked her how 
much a paper ballot cost (she paused and you could hear someone in the 
background throw out the answer).

At the time, I was doing the math for the whole state, approx 2.8 
million registered voters:

2,800,000  X $0.40 = $1,120,000.00 ( "one point one million dollars" )

If you figure that half the state is using DREs, then  X .5 = 
$560,000.00 ("about half a million bucks")

I mean my God that's less than the cost of the freaking coupons the put 
in the newspaper each weekend, no doubt, certainly less than some of 
the political junk mailings I get.

Ask Jared to buy us all paper ballots as an early Christmas gift this 
year instead of sending out one of his paper newsletters.

Joe



On Sep 3, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Robert Mcgrath wrote:

> > Hello,
> >
> > This afternoon (2pm) Bob McGrath of Coloradoans for Voting Integrity 
> > (CFVI) has a meeting with Jared Polis.  This was>arranged by Carolyn 
> > of RMPJ.  Bob wonders what we'd like to ask for.  It's
> > likely the more specific we can be in requests, the greater our 
> > chances of
> > receiving funding.
> >
> > Some thoughts:
> >
> > 1) Ask Mr. Polis to buy paper ballots for all those counties using 
> > DREs
> > (Denver, Jefferson, and Arapahoe).  I need to get numbers for this 
> > but according to
> > Joe P. (per Donetta Davidson on KGNU), a paper ballot costs 40 cents. 
> >  There
> > are 2.8 million registered voters in the entire state.  Round up to 3 
> > million,
> > we're talking $1.2 million to supply paper for the entire state in 
> > November.
> WHAT WOULD THE NUMBERS BE FOR JUST THOSE COUNTIES USING DRE'S?
> > We could tell Mr. Polis our strategy is this: he buys the ballots and 
> > CFVI
> > recruits and trains hand-counters, or auditors of optical scanned 
> > counts.
> >
> > 2)  Ask Mr. Polis to pay for an independent firm that will conduct 
> > exit
> > polling on Nov 2.  Bob believes many of the candidates are poised for 
> > legal
> > challenges and exit polling data will provide documentation that 
> > could force
> > hand-counting of optically-scanned ballots around the state.
> >
> > 3)  Legal fees funding (expert witnesses, etc).  CFVI has agreed to 
> > work with 2 lawyers who are preparing to file a legal motion by 
> > Tuesday next week, prior to the Sec of State's certification of the 
> > ballots on Sept. 10th.  We will need money for legal costs.
> >
> > 4)  Media time including television, radio, and billboards.
> >
> > 5)  T-shirts, hats, buttons, bumperstickers, etc.
> >
> > Please respond to this ASAP if you'd like a voice in this decision.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Tracy