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Well I stated that the time has passed because even
while Alisa Lewis method, the city chose to contract with the county clerk’s
office. I don’t know when the city contracted the county clerk’s office, so I
am unaware if that was before or after they saw the Swiss Method. The work that we’d have to do is to convince the city
that the SVM should be employed and that they should reverse themselves. If you
think that getting gov’t official to support the SVM before they made this
decision was difficult, you should be able to imagine how much more difficult
it would be now. Political bodies are very unlikely to reverse any
decisions, because it would infer that they chose incorrectly the first time.
If we were dealing only with one person who could be inclined to admit that
perhaps there were other options and be willing to chose them, that would be
great. But we are dealing with a group of people, most of
whom were elected. This is a difficult task and would take a good deal of work.
AND TIME. We don’t have that kind of time. I would suggest that activists threaten a recall of
any council member that insists on using a system that has yet to prove itself.
That is the only thing that I can imagine would have enough oomph to make any
difference at this point. It would have to be well publicized and start on Monday
morning. Paul Tiger -----Original
Message----- If "the Swiss Voting
Method is the best that we've seen," then we shouldn't accept that
"the time for this change to the Swiss Voting Method has passed."
A more efficient,
cheaper, verifiable, transparent and almost certainly more accurate
election system should not be rejected just because, once again, government
officials made premature, ill-informed decisions. I am amazed at the this
whole 2-year saga -- throughout, volunteers like Joe and Al and Neal and
Paul and so on and on keep providing better solutions to election problems
that the professionals ignore or reject. I think Paul
T. is saying Boulder (city and county) will continue using the
Hart InterCivic system no matter how crummy it is because Boulder
County already shelled out $1-2 million for it, precisely the problem CVV
recommended avoiding by leasing a system to allow more time to explore
other, better options. kell |