Re: Recall Information for County Clerk

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mary-

Thanks for your e-mail. I appreciate that not everyone thinks a recall 
is warranted at this time, and I am pursuing this as an individual, not 
on behalf of CVV (I hope that's already clear).

Also, I am simply requesting the information at this time, not yet 
actually collecting any signatures. As I told one of the reporters who 
has called, I'd rather see Linda do the right thing to begin with 
(like, a year ago), but if she's not going to, then it will be up to 
the citizens to secure Trustworthy Elections for Boulder County, as 
they have repeatedly proven their ineptitude at doing so.

The "first time" should have been before the Primary, and now it 
appears that what problems they encountered then were never resolved 
before heading into the General. Also, remember that when a citizen 
tried to test this system under real world conditions, that citizen was 
escorted from the Clerk's office by the Sheriff who then continued to 
investigate the citizen instead of spending any time looking for 
problems at the Elections Office.

Also, I do not agree with the County position that no one should be 
held accountable, especially given the obvious nature of management's 
repeated failures (don't forget the uncertified equipment and total 
recount in November 2003, too).

All that said, I'm curious about at what point would you agree with a 
recall, after they screw up the next election? Do you not see a pattern 
here already?

Joe

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





On Nov 12, 2004, at 4:43 PM, Mary Eberle wrote:

> Joe,
>
> I do not agree with this request. Let Ms. Salas and her staff finish 
> the vote counting and give us the results in peace.
>
> I do not think it is reasonable to have expected the system to work 
> smoothly the first time. There are too many variables. It is too bad 
> that we didn't get all the wake-up calls after the primary, but we 
> didn't, and nothing can be done about that now. Still, all the ballots 
> are being counted (so far as we can tell), although at a monetary cost 
> as well as a human-exhaustion cost.
>
> As I have stated, I think our first priority must be to change the 
> Colorado law concerning recount methods so that we can verify election 
> results. We need our county commissioners to make this their priority 
> as well, not a witch hunt. They need to form a coalition with other 
> county commissioners, and they will be less inclined to do so if we 
> bog down Boulder County politics with a recall.
>
> Mary Eberle
> Election Judge, Boulder County
>
> Joe Pezzillo wrote:
> > November 12th, 2004
> > Attn: Boulder County Board of Commissioners, Boulder County Clerk
> > From: Joe Pezzillo, Boulder city resident
> > Due to her unwillingness to accept responsibility for the failure of 
> > the Boulder County Elections Office by voluntarily resigning or 
> > removing those staff members who have demonstrated incompetence, 
> > please provide me with information on how to begin the process of 
> > holding a recall election to remove the Boulder County Clerk.
> > Regretfully,
> > Joe Pezzillo
> > PO Box J
> > Boulder, Colorado USA 80306
> > .