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How do you like that for a switch? I did tell Evan beforehand. Credit where it is due. I don’t like the idea of hand tallies, but I sure as
heck don’t like what we have now. The Hart system is going to continue to fail.
Pretty much any system that we buy that has any kind of failure will make
everything look bad for elections in our county. The clerk has no understanding of the gravity of the
situation and plans on ‘fixing’ it by buying more technocrap with our money.
She’s a lame duck. She can do whatever she likes. Even if she’s not re-elected
it will not matter. If no equip is bought then she can say she did her
best and the county failed to bring it off. She can be held blameless. If she
buys and load of crap, she can blame the vendors. She did that once and it
seemed to have worked. She even stole $52K and got away with that. We have to convince the commissioners that buying more
technocrap will land on them solidly when it fails to work as touted. Not
Linda; not the vendors; but land on them. Counting the ballots by hand is workable; probably
cheaper than what Linda has in mind; and has really no downside – unless you
want to run a $3M slush fund. SG -----Original
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by hand. It is legal and it is accurate. Best of all, it is transparent." http://coloradodaily.com/articles/2006/01/05/opinion/your_take/yourtake2.txt |