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Re: VVPAT under attack in Mitchell/Madden bill - call Friday

I'm afraid that my subject may have been confusing.  The
Mitchell/Madden bill is the only one I know of in Colorado that
PROPOSES VVPATs.  I was disappointed that there are some who are
opposing its requirements for VVPATs and manual audits.  So
the VVPATs in the current version of the Mitchell/Madden bill
are under attack, it is not Mitchell/Madden that is attacking
VVPATs.

I agree entirely with Margit, and with the CFVI position on Tuesday,
which just requested a few strengthening proposals.

We need to SUPPORT Mitchell and his bill in general.  There are
certainly things that can be improved, especiallly the need to require
hand counting of recounts, but the bulk of it is a huge step in the
right direction.

Opposing it at this point would just kill the only forward step
available at this time!

-Neal

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:13:34AM -0500, Margitjo@xxxxxxx wrote:
>    We need to make a strong case FOR VVPB's.  We need to ask for revisions to
>    protect the usefulness of voter-verification.  Since the bill still needs
>    to go before the House, give them a chance to make the changes before
>    then.  Since the SOS and parts of the disabled community do not appear
>    to genuinely support VVPB's, we need to.
>    Margit