Re: are CO-certified machines legal for purchase?

[Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is extraordinarily cool.

Great job Margit!

I would recommend contacting the county attorney by phone and getting
feedback.  If that does not produce immediate positive feedback then a
letter drafted to the "Association of County Commissioners" (I know that
there is an organization like that; I just don't know the exact name.) with
this information.

Ralph Shnelvar


On Tue, 2 May 2006 02:00:21 EDT, you wrote:

>Question:
>    If the Hart e-Slate is not "capable of producing a voter-verified paper 
>record of each elector's vote", because it does not produce such a record for 
>the blind (because the audio report is of the machine count, not the 
>voter-verified paper record), then under Colorado law 1-5-801, is it not illegal to 
>purchase such a machine?
>    Here is the law: "CRS 1-5-801.  Acquisition of voting 
>systems-voter-verified paper record. (1) On and after June 6, 2005, a political subdivision whall 
>not acquire a voting system unless the voting system is capable of producing 
>a voter-verified paper record of each elector's vote."
>    That would mean Boulder shouldn't make a lease-to-buy agreement with 
>Hart.  It also means the other forty some counties that wish to purchase Hart 
>e-Slates in the state shouldn't do so either.
>    AND, wouldn't this apply to the other machines certified in Colorado: 
>Diebold, Sequoia and ES&S?  I don't think their machines provide the blind with 
>voter-verified voting either.
>Margit
>
>Margit Johansson
>303-442-1668/ margitjo@xxxxxxx