Bob,
You are making a big mistake encouraging
voters, who have the option to vote on a paper ballot in their precinct, to
vote by absentee instead. Many of them will lose their vote altogether.
For voters who have the choice of voting using
a paper ballot in their precinct or in an early voting location – they should
do so.
Al
Al Kolwicz
CAMBER
Citizens for Accurate Mail Ballot Election Results
303-494-1540
www.users.qwest.net/~alkolwicz
http://coloradovoter.blogspot.com
From: Mcgrath,
Bob___PAIC_Mkt [mailto:bob.mcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004
4:37 PM
To: Mcgrath, Bob___PAIC_Mkt
Subject: 46 DAYS TILL ELECTION
DAY! - CAN WE PROTECT THE VOTE?
Weekly Newsbrief
Two events You Can Support:
Sunday, Sept. 26 - "Just Desserts" Forum
features Films & Desserts
"Trouble in
Come see Trouble in Paradise, a movie detailing the problems
continuing in
Wednesday, Sept. 29 - "Don't Let the Computer
Eat Your Vote" Rally
West Steps, State Capitol, downtown
Come join with other citizens to express your desire for
trustworthy elections in November. We will be asking for voter verifiable
paper ballots with 1% automatic manual audits of all machine-counted ballots,
to ensure there are no opportunities for malfunctions or malfeasance in this
year's critically important elections. Come hear various political
candidates from major parties discuss their support of verifiable voting and sign
a pledge for trustworthy elections. Co-sponsored by the Coloradoans for
Voting Integrity and the Rocky
This critical election, 1/3 of
For more info on this issue, go to http://www.verifiedvoting.org/resources/hr2239_volunteers/Introduction-5-pages.pdf
or to www.cfvi.org
Other Actions:
CFVI has explored legal action but has
been unable to pursue a lawsuit due to unavailability of Colorado-based facts
with which to bring such a preliminary injunctions. Our actions will
instead now focus upon our HOTLINE, collecting HAVA COMPLAINTS, ruthlessly
pursuing MEDIA AND ADVERTISING, and building COALITION WITH
OTHER GROUPS.
We are now in need of
funds to execute an ad campaign about our hotline and to educate the public
about verifiable voting in
We have been meeting weekly for the past
month, developing outreach campaigns to county election officials, to political
candidates in
Our Current Advice:
Due to our inability to halt the use of
un-auditable electronic voting machines, and due to our inability to call for a
statistically significant manual audit of all optical scanners, we are calling
on all
1. Vote absentee. Order your
absentee ballot by October 3rd.
2. Cast your absentee ballot IN PERSON,
AND AS LATE AS POSSIBLE (THE DAY BEFORE OR THE DAY OF THE ELECTION).
3. Encourage everyone you know to NOT vote
early or vote in precinct voting. If someone misses the absentee
deadline, have them vote provisional.
4. Those voters voting provisional should
go to the precinct location and submit themselves WITHOUT ID so they will be
given a provisional paper ballot. Those people will be given a phone
number to call to see if their ballot was counted within 12 days after the
election. Due to the extremely tight races in this year's elections, it
is likely that there will be court challenges over provisional ballots, but at
least they will be on paper.
5. If you must vote on a machine, or if
you are given a paper ballot to be optically scanned, again, try to vote
provisional. Optical scanner tabulation software can just as easily be hacked
into or compromised as the electronic voting machines.
6. If you experience or know of anyone who
experiences any problems in voting on election day, we will be providing a
voter hotline to call with such reports. There is also a Protect the Vote
Hotline operated by People for the
7. We will be facilitating election
complaints using the Help America Vote Act provisions. Stay tuned for
details on this.
This is the election of our
lifetime. Please vote as if your life, and the life of our democracy,
depends upon it.
Bob McGrath, Director
Coloradoans for Voting Integrity
355 Teller Ste 200
Tel. 303.231.1031
http://www.cfvi.org
