Re: [CFVI] Hand-Counted Paper Ballots in 2008

On 11/19/06, Claudia Kuhns <claudiakuhns@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does anyone know for sure that Rosemary Rodriguez is going to the EAC
board?  I think that to appoint two people from Colorado to this board
would be quite unusual.  I have, however heard this rumor before.

Robert Mcgrath wrote:
> Someone should contact Rosemary Rodriguez of the Denver City Council
> to meet with her to educate her on the issues before she leaves to
> join the national EAC committee.  That could help forward the issues
> for the whole country.
>
>
>> 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
>>
>> ---
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Margit Johansson
>> To: Bruce McNaughton
>> Cc: CFVI General Distribution List; attendees;
>> cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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
>
>
>

By Warren Stewart, VoteTrustUSA
November 17, 2006
Ending months of speculation, the nomination of Denver City Councilwoman Rosemary Rodriguez (pictured at right) to the Election Assistance Commission has been submitted by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. If confirmed by the Senate, Rodriguez would replace Ray Martinez, who resigned from the Commission last summer. According to The Denver Post, Rodriguez, a former Denver clerk and recorder under Mayor Wellington Webb, refused to comment when asked about a possible nomination. Her aide said he was not authorized to discuss the matter. Rodriguez is currently on an investigative panel assembled by the Mayor John Hickenlooper to examine the failures of the Denver Election Commission that led to long lines at the polls on Election Day and a slow vote-tallying process. The Post article noted thatin 2005 Rodriguez championed the idea to scrap Denver's election commission in favor of a single elected clerk and recorder system that would closer resemble the structure of 62 of the 63 other counties in Colorado. She also led a charge last spring for an all-mail ballot election this November, worrying at the time that tangle of federal and state laws left Denver and other counties in the state with little time to prepare for the election. In September, the White House nominated Caroline Hunter to replace current EAC chairman Paul DeGregorio, whose term expires on December 12. Formerly legal council to the the Republican National Committee, Hunter currently serves as Deputy Director of Public Liason for the White House.