It's pretty easy to take pot-shots from the sidelines, isn't it, Joe?
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pezzillo [mailto:jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:27 AM
To: CVV Voting
Cc: Hillary Hall
Subject: DC Article: "Larimer Shows Up Boulder"
Anybody else see this article?
http://dailycamera.com/news/2006/nov/09/larimer-shows-up-boulder/
Not only do we have to look at a picture of Tom Halicki soaking up
the county payroll again for cleaning up the mess he made, we also
have to endure a lack of memory about our voting system, evidenced by
this quote from the article:
"So how did Larimer County get all of its votes — paper and otherwise
— counted by 1:30 a.m. Wednesday while Boulder County didn't wrap up
counting until after 7 p.m. Wednesday?"
I don't suppose Josh Liss (or Tom Halicki) bothered to mention to the
reporter that 20+ hours is actually the vendor's quoted amount of
time it takes to run our ballots through that system they love to
throw money at so much, eh?
And poor elections worker Carrie Haverford, who probably didn't get
the memo about the system either, only got three hours of sleep. Get
out your violins people.
"Carrie Haverfield, voter education and outreach specialist for
Boulder County, said the county may need to consider moving to a vote
center system, in which the county's nearly 200 polling places would
be consolidated into 40 or 50 vote centers, if it wants to expedite
its vote tabulation.
"The hard thing about Boulder County is that we're one of the largest
counties that still uses polling places where other counties use vote
centers and can get their results in quicker," said Haverfield, who
slept only three hours after tabulating votes all night."
For that matter, perhaps the county may also need to consider moving
to a precinct based hand counted paper ballot, that would also make
the vote go faster than using the system we've got, heck, we might
have finished BEFORE Larimer County. But hey, that would require
being able to figure out how to run an election without total
dependence on a for-profit vendor from Texas, now, wouldn't it?
Something our current elections staff is clearly incapable of doing.
It's always "so much easier" to just buy whatever they have to sell
us, isn't it?
Heck, look what a great job Denver did with their vote centers!
On second thought, put away your violins and start getting out some
pink slips (and I don't mean Swiss ballots, either).
Thank heavens we've got a new clerk and recorder, I propose the first
order of business should be to send all these people packing.
Joe
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