Fw: Reject Internet Voting

[Lou Puls <lpuls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>From: Lou Puls <lpuls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Feb 28, 2006 2:11 AM
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>Subject: Reject Internet Voting
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>The Internet voting bill (Senate Bill 06-62) under consideration by your committee would be another ill-conceived computer disaster if implemented into law.  The vulnerabilities of security and trustworthiness of email voting cannot yet be overcome by available systems - as is evident every day as literally thousands of viruses, worms, rootkits, etc. attack the integrity of millions of worldwide digital systems and show the potential abuse of such a voting system.  Please do not create another state computer disaster which could prove the social services system collapse to be a comparatively minor farce.
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>The Colorado legislature was aware enough to try to limit the abuse of DRE voting - it must now apply equal common sense to reject Internet voting and honor those overseas who think they are suffering and dying to preserve our representative republic.
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>And now Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org, after fighting tooth and nail to get court access to PUBLIC records, has proven that illegal access to dozens of voting machines took place in Florida weeks prior to the 2004 election.  Such access won't always be done by incompetent crackers, as was proven in Maryland to an ENRAGED and BETRAYED Gov. Ehrlich - crackers can learn to skillfully, COMPLETELY erase any trace of vote tampering.  The internet is no place to entrust the vote of the military people sacrificing so much for a decent country to which to return home. 
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>Sincerely, 
>
>Dr Louis G Puls
>Museion Research
>Boulder CO 80307-3264