Fwd: Subject: 3,000 internal elections official communications now online

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

"with Colorado especially heavily represented"...

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> From: bev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: May 12, 2005 9:13:26 PM MDT
> To: bev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Subject: 3,000 internal elections official communications now online
>
> Sorry, hit send without the subject line.
>
> Please post to your lists. 3,000 internal emails and memos among election
> officials now online in the document archive at http://www.blackboxvoting.org.
>
> Click to: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/2197/5680.html
>
> Memos from state elections directors, secretaries of state, legal counsel and
> others, spanning 2001 - 2004, with Colorado especially heavily represented.
>
> Link goes to thirty-five more links, each containing about 100 pieces of
> correspondence.
>
> Most is rather mundane, but not all of it. Those of you in Colorado will find
> hundreds of pieces of correspondence from Donetta Davidson and others, and may
> see your own names in the documents.
>
> At times,voting integrity advocates will see themselves referred to as
> "berserkers" and we also see the insecurities of Elections Center's R. Doug
> Lewis surface, as he writes everyone in sight saying "It won't be pretty,"
> concerned about an upcoming article by Adam Cohen of the New York Times.
>
> There are interesting insights into the planning (and talking points) for
> inserting Homeland Security into our election process.
>
> Colorado's Donetta Davidson and New York's Tom Wilkey refer to each other in
> unusually endearing terms.
>
> Most of the documents are unexciting, but if you are involved in litigation, you
> will want to go over these carefully, as they may provide helpful details. The
> correspondence also makes reference to many attachments, not provided, but they
> should all be available through public records requests.
>
> These are from FOIA requests and contain some duplicate copies. We removed as
> many as we could, but I'm sure there are more.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bev Harris
> Executive Director
> Black Box Voting, Inc.
>
>
>
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