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RE: Window of opportunity
This is 342 words. Most papers won't accept more than 300 words. Keep it
short, make a strong point.
paul
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From: Evan Daniel Ravitz [mailto:evan@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:35 AM
To: Joe Pezzillo
Cc: Paul Tiger; Ralph Shnelvar; cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
juddgolden@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Window of opportunity
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Joe Pezzillo wrote:
Joe, are you submitting this as an open letter to the editors, I
hope?
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>
> 12/30/2005
>
> Act Now: You Can Block E-Voting in Boulder County
>
> PLEASE TAKE ACTION TODAY!
>
> Dear Concerned Boulder County Citizen,
>
> You have the chance by acting NOW to stop the forced introduction of
E-Voting
> in Boulder County.
>
> The Boulder County Clerk's Elections Office is trying to purchase Direct
> Record Electronic (DRE) voting computers in Boulder County, as well as
> eliminate local precincts in favor of "super size" vote centers.
>
> The DRE computers are the worst possible technology for voting, as has
been
> proven repeatedly around the country in real-world elections use and
> professional testing. If you haven't heard the facts or read enough horror
> stories about election errors already, visit http://www.votersunite.org
>
> The Clerk is basically trying to sneak these devices in since she knows
there
> is overwhelming popular opposition to these machines. The initial comment
> period was only two days around the Christmas Holiday, and it has since
been
> expanded to a few more days around the New Years. The 40-page proposal
> document insufficiently outlines how we will be conducing our elections
for
> years to come, focusing instead on the purchase of DRE equipment and use
of
> vote centers.
>
> PLEASE TAKE ACTION TODAY!
>
> By writing a Letter to the Editor in one of our local county papers and
> CC'ing it to the Commissioners and Clerk (and others), we can turn up the
> heat on this issue and get the citizens and voters back in control of our
> elections, instead of abdicating responsibility (and deflecting blame) by
> using outside for-profit vendors as the Clerk is planning to do.
>
> Please take 5 or 10 minutes today to write down your objections to
electronic
> voting and vote centers in Boulder County. At a minimum, the entire
community
> should be included in the discussion that leads to any decisions about our
> elections, as opposed to being repeatedly excluded as the Clerk has
attempted
> to do, resulting in the assorted disasters we've had in our elections
here.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to act on this fundamental issue. We must
have
> trustworthy elections, our democracy is at stake.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joe Pezzillo
> PO Box J
> Boulder, CO 80306 USA
> jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx
> 303-938-8850
>
> PS - Please get involved in the local discussion online at < http://
> www.coloradovoter.net > including a local e-mail list and document
archives.
>
>
>
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>
>
> On Dec 30, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Evan Daniel Ravitz wrote:
>
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Somehow, a unique window of opportunity has opened for citizens to get
the
>> County Commissioners to abandon unverifiable voting, partly thanks to the
>> ACLU, and partly due to the contempt for citizens and incompetence of the
>> County Clerk.
>>
>> We already know that NO ammount of time and logic will move the
>> Commissioners from their robotic adherence to privatized elections.
>>
>> I suggest a campaign of letters to the editors of the Boulder Camera and
>> Longmont Times-Call. Embarassing our (elected?) Commissioners in the
public
>> eye may spark others to weigh in as well. The public is by now quite
>> educated about Diebold, DRE's etc.
>>
>> Fear is about the only thing which will motivate public officials to
change
>> course. I've known Will Toor for almost 20 years. While we share many
>> viewpoints, I've never seen him show a shred of courage in his
leadership.
>> Now that he has 2 kids, his lack of courage is sealed. Only fear of
losing
>> his job would motivate him to do the right thing.
>>
>> New Year's could be a time for new things.
>>
>> If 2 of our ad hoc leaders I single out in this email's header will write
>> letters I will too, and will email the 142 volunteers for hand-counting
>> asking for their help.
>>
>> I suggest that each letter urge citizens to contact the commissioners at
>> commissioners@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or to write their own letters to editors.
>>
>> Evan
>>
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>>
>
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