Re: Citations of Problems with Hart Equipment

[Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:12:56PM -0700, Marty Neilson wrote:
> I am sorry to have missed the final meeting of the committee today. 
> Please advise if a recommendation was made and what it was.

Marty - below is what Al just forwarded from Josh.

And I hope the committee closely follows the very troublesome
situation in Texas, as noted by Joe.  It is very important to see how
Hart treats its customers after the sale.  The apparent contradictions
in Hart's statements and the press reports are very reminiscent of the
problems we encountered with the ballot specification and printing
debacle.  It seems clear that that needs to be sorted out before a
prudent person would go forward with yet more equipment from Hart.
Remember our own sagas, the audit issues, and Hart's continuing
refusal to document their ballot requirements in a way that would
allow vendors besides themselves from bidding on printing ballots for
elections.

Neal McBurnett                 http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
Signed and/or sealed mail encouraged.  GPG/PGP Keyid: 2C9EBA60

----- Forwarded message from Al Kolwicz <alkolwicz@xxxxxxxxx> ----- 

From: Liss, Josh [mailto:jliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 5:03 PM 
To: Al Kolwicz 
Subject: RE: Proposal Evaluation Committee 

Mr. Kolwicz, 

The RFP Evaluation Team is still drafting our recommendation to the Clerk 
and expects that our work will be completed next week.  As of this time, 
future meetings have not yet been scheduled, but if you'd like, we can 
certainly notify you when they are. 

Once a recommendation has been adopted by the Evaluation Team, it will be 
submitted to the Clerk.  It will then be the Clerk's decision as to how to 
proceed.  It is hard to say when the Clerk will make a decision until 
after she has received the team's official recommendation. 

Thanks, 

Josh 

Joshua B. Liss 
Elections Coordinator 
Boulder County Clerk & Recorder 
P: (303) 413-7745 
F: (303) 413-7750 
jliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
 
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>      -----Original Message-----
>      From: Joe Pezzillo [mailto:jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx]
>      Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 11:45 PM
>      To: Barbara Anuta; Bo Shaffer; Deb Gardner; Faith Gross; Jana Petersen;
>      Joshua B. Liss; Marty Neilson; Mike Harlan; Nancy Jo Wurl; Tim Hansford;
>      CVV Voting
>      Subject: Citations of Problems with Hart Equipment
> 
>      3/22/2006
>      Members of the RFP Evaluation Committee and Members of the Public and
>      Press:
>      Apparently, a committee member today made a verbal assertion that the
>      recent elections problems in Texas have been found "not" to be the
>      vendor's fault.
>      I have researched this, and been unable to find any written
>      documentation or news references to support this assertion.
>      Instead, I have found:
>      NO statement or news on the Hart Intercivic website "News" section
>      regarding any recent elections in Texas as of today (there is a gap of
>      no news between 2/7/2006 and 3/22/2006):
>      [1]http://www.hartic.com/news.php
>      nor on the company homepage, nor on the company press release page,
>      though, interestingly, this statement, referenced in a newspaper
>      article, can be found in the Google cache, but no longer appears on the
>      Hart website:
>      [2]http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:WgeR5b3RsgIJ:www.hartic.com/news_view.php%3Fnewsid%3D29+Hart+Intercivic+%22Britt+Kauffman%22+statement
>      [alt url: [3]http://tinyurl.com/kt9uc ]
>      Has the company retracted this statement (dated 3/14/2006)? Is there a
>      new statement from the company to replace this? According to this Google
....