Boulder County’s Proposal
Evaluation Committee has filed its report. CAMBER
is appalled.
Click to read CAMBER’s brief rebuttal to the report --
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Al Kolwicz
CAMBER – Citizens for Accurate Mail Ballot Election
Results
2867 Tincup
Circle
Boulder, CO 80305
303-494-1540
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CAMBER is a dedicated group of
volunteers who are working to ensure that every voter gets to vote once, every
vote is counted once, and that every ballot is secure and anonymous.
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CAMBER has
reviewed the Boulder County RFP
Evaluation report and we are appalled.
- The committee has failed in its duty to report these
facts about the HART InterCivic proposal:
- It does not
comply with the RFP requirements
- It violates Colorado law
- The committee wrongly recommends changing the RFP terms
after the bids have been submitted. This stinks to high heaven.
The county will be accused of rigging the bid.
The RFP is for a lease not a sale, and there is no mention that lease
costs would be credited against a future purchase.
Disclosure of these two deal sweeteners would likely have attracted additional
bid responders and cost the county less. Adopting them would substantially
rig
any future purchase in HART's favor.
- Details in the report are wrong (hopefully innocently).
It is absolutely not true, for example, that the HART system is
“the most universally accessible certified system available at this
time”. AutoMark is more accessible, is certified nationally
and by most states (not Colorado),
and is available at this time.
AutoMark was suspiciously denied Colorado
certification. HART’s equipment suffers from the identical
problem used by the Secretary of State to deny AutoMark
certification.
Something fishy is going on in the Secretary of State's office.