From: "Bruce McNaughton" <bjmcn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: bjmcn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: "Margit Johansson" <margitjo@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: "CFVI General Distribution List" <cfvi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"attendees" <attendees@xxxxxxx>, cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [CFVI] Hand-Counted Paper Ballots in 2008
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:51:09 -0800
Yes, I'd like to work on the legislative subcommittee re the paper ballots
issue.
I'm not terribly good about getting to meetings, though.
There's a description of how the Canadian ballot-counting process works at
Lynn Landes excellent site EcoTalk.org. Also, an article about Maine's
process,
which is still 80% hand-counted paper ballots. Ah, the feel of real
democracy!
I want some! http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachines-LegalVoting.htm
Ask your Congressmember to co-sponsor The Paper Ballot Act of 2006
(HR 6200) introduced by Rep Dennis Kucinich. It amends HAVA to
require paper ballots in presidential elections, and makes Election Day a
holiday.
Bruce
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----- Original Message -----
From: Margit Johansson
To: Bruce McNaughton
Cc: CFVI General Distribution List; attendees;
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Sent: 11/18/2006 7:06:29 AM
Subject: Re: [CFVI] Hand-Counted Paper Ballots in 2008
Just don't forget the requirments of HAVA for voting devices for the
disabled. Much as the SOS's office has actively tried to convince us
otherwise, that doesn't mean DRE's are necessary.
We need to form a legislative committee; maybe a subcommittee would
investigate the handcounted paper ballots option; there is plenty of
interest in this in Colorado. Bruce, would you be willing to be on such a
subcommittee?
Who else would like to be on the legislative committee?
Other committees are:a research committee, which will analyze
election returns; and a voting device committee, which will look into
possibilities for certification/ re-certification of machines. The small
voting machine companies have been discouraged from applying for
certification in Colorado. This has to change; what little I know about it
suggests that they have some of the better products. (Avante? Populex?)
Margit
Margit Johansson, CFVI
303-442-1668/ margitjo@xxxxxxxxx
On 11/17/06, Bruce McNaughton <bjmcn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Harnassing the anger generated by the Denver Election Debacle of 2006 and
celebrating the introduction of the Paper Ballot Act of 2006 by Dennis
Kucinich
(HR 6200) http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/03/18317658.php , I
hope
we can move beyond the 'we can't make it work here' mentality regarding
accu-
rate and transparent elections, and work to make our election process a
thing
we can be proud of.
A protocol for hand-counted paper ballots is described in the following
article
http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/specials/article.2006-04-10.1693298872
by Sheila Parks Ed.D.
I'm going to be looking into how other places around the US and the world
make
the HCPB idea work, how we can adapt existing systems to our conditions
rather
than having to reinvent them, and how imagination can make it all our own.
We don't have a lot of time. I hope we can make it work.
All paper, no machines.
Bruce McNaughton