RE: searchable RFP on county web site now

["AlKolwicz" <alkolwicz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Neal

You might already know that the Secretary of State used the same "user
vicious" approach when publishing the "audit" reports on their site.

Somehow, I don't think that this is an accident.

I have complained to the SOS, but have gotten nowhere.
 
We are working with a "government of the government and for the government."

We must replace every County Clerk/Election Commissioner and the Secretary
of State.  They are working against, rather than in behalf, of the people.

Al

Al Kolwicz
CAMBER - Citizens for Accurate Mail Ballot Election Results
2867 Tincup Circle
Boulder, CO 80305
303-494-1540
AlKolwicz@xxxxxxxxx
www.users.qwest.net/~alkolwicz
http://ColoradoVoter.blogspot.com

 -----Original Message-----
From: Neal McBurnett [mailto:neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 7:20 PM
To: cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: searchable RFP on county web site now

Those who were frustrated at the inablility to search the RFP draft
for keywords (like "paper") may be happy to hear one bit of good news.
In response to my request, and despite Josh being sick, and the normal
web person being out of the office, they put a new version of the RFP
draft up on the web site.  I assume that the only thing that changed
was the method of conversion, so that now instead of being bitmaps of
the pages, it contains normal text suitable for search, copy and paste,
etc.  The file is also about one tenth the size of the old one.

 http://www.co.boulder.co.us/clerk/elections/RFP/471706.htm

In the context of voting, this is a small thing.  But in the context
of government information and openness, this is an important step.
Governments should never post text information in inaccessible formats
like bitmaps, but instead post information in ways that facilitate the
public's use of and commentary on the information.  Thanks to the
County's new Public Information Officer, Barbara Halpin,
bhalpin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-Neal