comments on preliminary recommendations before ax falls on April 15

[Mary Eberle <m.eberle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RE: http://coloradovoter.net/moin.cgi/Preliminary_20April_208th

Dear Election Review Committee,

You could at least make a strong recommendation for hand-recount 
verification efforts (audits) after each election. They should have 
more random procedures (as described by Neil McBurnett) than the ones 
followed after the March 8 city election. If you omit this concept 
from your recommendations, verification may not happen.

How will the precinct tallies be transmitted to Election Central? Not 
electronically, I hope.

It is too bad that you had all the meetings and other work only to 
keep the county's status quo. Hand-counted Swiss-style ballots would 
have been a far better choice. At a minimum, we need open-source 
software as well as hand verification. Are we always going to send 
Boulder County's money to Hart to do the printing? The citizens do not 
want mail elections; the March 8 election had an abysmal turnout. Your 
recommendations so far support the bureaucracy instead of democracy. I 
am very disappointed.

May every computer glitch you experience in the future remind you of 
your choice to risk our precious votes on computer counting.

Mary C. Eberle (Election Judge in 2004 Primary and General Election)
1520 Cress Court
Boulder, CO 80304
(303) 442-2164