ERC DRAFT Report

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a copy of the ERC Draft Report, it's 40+ pages and almost 3MB in 
size as a Word document.

It's a Draft, but I can't imagine more edits will be made between now 
and tonight.

Major culprits identified in the delay include:

Hart Intercivic:

"In its present configuration, the County’s current voting system will 
not yield quick results."

Al Kolwicz:

"The individual designated by the Republican Party for  the LAT was 
uncooperative, obstructed the process, and prolonged the LAT until the 
Clerk  and Recorder finally directed the LAT be conducted without his 
participation."

Ballot Printing Delays / Lack of Specifications

"No specifications were included by Boulder  County in the printing 
contract because Hart had provided no specifications to Boulder  
County, presumably because Hart originally intended to be the printer 
of the ballots."

Printing Problems with 13,000 Ballots, Only 1K of which had "obvious" 
printing errors
"Of these 13,000 ballots that required  human resolution before being 
automatically tallied, approximately 1,000 were caused by  obvious 
printing errors.  The remainder appeared to be properly printed but 
could not be  read by the software because the voting boxes were not 
located on the paper in the exact  locations needed to be read 
automatically."

And about half a dozen other serious issues, culminating in "The 
Elections Division lacked a management plan that could quickly react to 
emergencies or  unforeseen contingencies."

Which is ironic in no small part due to the fact that Hart asked for 
the County's contingency plan in advance so they could give it to the 
public relations firm.

More to follow, if you want me to e-mail you a PDF of the document 
(only 272K), let me know, or perhaps Paul W or Paul T could provide me 
assistance with uploading it to the wiki.

Joe