RE: Stop Boulder election brain-damage!

["Some Guy" <someguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent and only 174 words. This should reach print if sent to the press.

I was just interviewed by the Boulder Weekly, who has finally decided to
cover the elections happenings in the town it claims to represent.

Good work Evan!

SG

-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Daniel Ravitz [mailto:evan@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 4:26 PM
To: cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Stop Boulder election brain-damage!


This is what I just sent to all my local email lists, and, without the
bottom section, to local editors. You're welcome to forward it on to
any of your email lists. Edit it, replace it, but keep it going. It's
"viral advertising" like this which made Jared Polis at age 30 the
richest man in Boulder, and it could put away DRE's for good... Evan


Friends, Boulderites, Countyfolk, your ears!

You DON'T have to  be a techie -or relive the brain-damaging details of
Boulder's recent elections and "process"- to help make sure future elections
are honest! Please email the County Commissioners at
commissioners@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and ask for hand-counting, which is:

Public: Poll watchers watch as their neighbors count. Poll watchers now can
only stare blankly at a computer, as the software is proprietary -secret.
When
some has been accidentally revealed, it turns out to be error-ridden and
insecure.

Inexpensive:  $1.82/vote in Canada. Much less with volunteers. I easily
found
142 volunteers in 3 days via email to hand count the 2004 election. With
utility bill inserts etc. the County could easily find all they need.

Accurate: the best, according to a 2001 MIT/Caltech study (NYT, 9/19/04)

Fast: Done at precincts by the poll workers

Community-based: employs many lower-income locals, not a few high-priced
outsiders

Traditional: used for centuries in Austria, Britain, Canada, Denmark,
France,
Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland and most of the world.

If you really want to talk about DREs (the worst method, which the County
Clerk
tried to ram through over the holidays) VVPATs, HAVA, etc. please go to
VotersUnite.org and get the quick download of "Myth Breakers: Facts about
Electronic Elections." If you spend time learning this stuff, please also
write
a letter to editors. Now is the time! Here are their emails, which you
should
send your letter to individually to make them feel special:

openforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
opinion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
staff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
opinions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
editorial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

MOST IMPORTANT! Please forward this to your local email lists!


--
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/217 - Release Date: 12/30/2005