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Al Kolwicz
Colorado Voter Group
2867 Tincup Circle
Boulder, CO 80305
303-494-1540
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From: Harvie Branscomb [mailto:harvie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:42 AM
To: ColoradoVoter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Hillary Hall; 'Margit Johansson'; 'Deb Adams'; 'Geof Cahoon'; 'David
Larson'; angielayton@xxxxxxxx; 'Ivan Meek'; 'joseph richey'; 'Mary =
Eberle';
'Cliff West'; 'Tom Morris'; 'Dan Leftwich'; 'CFVI Attendees'; 'Citizens =
for
Verifiable Voting'; 'Al Kolwicz'; erika jensen; 'Neal McBurnett'; Ken
Gordon; 'Morgan Carroll'; Paul Weissman; Ron Tupa; 'Teak Simonton'; =
Kathleen
Curry; Jared Polis; Bill Hobbs; 'John Kefalas'
Subject: Boulder County's counting crawls
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Excerpt from article reproduced in full at bottom of email (referring to
Boulder County vote counting delays)
To ensure accuracy, election workers are visually checking a picture of =
each
ballot on computers, searching for the troublesome dust line. Though
officials hope a couple of technological fixes will speed up the =
counting,
the rate of votes counted Wednesday hung around 1,200 ballots an hour.
=93Accuracy is more important than speed,=94 said Boulder County Clerk =
and
Recorder Hillary Hall. =93People expect accuracy =97 this is the job I =
was
elected to do.=94
The molasses speed of the counting process is frustrating Hall, but =
perhaps
more confounding is that there doesn=92t appear to be any obvious =
explanation
for why the paper-dust problem showed up now.
=93I just don=92t know,=94 she said. =93If this is a common problem, =
I=92ve frankly
never heard about it.=94
The Laura Snider article is quite reasonable in its coverage of the =
Boulder
vote counting process.
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Why hasn=92t Boulder County Clerk Hillary Hall heard about dust problems =
on
her Hart Scanners? I would suggest that the reason is that there is no
mechanism for this kind of problem sharing to take place. The =
manufacturer
has little motivation to encourage the sharing of election problems with
their equipment=85 the CCCI (clerks association) doesn=92t either, =
apparently,
other than what happens through serendipity. The state has no mechanism =
for
this and the election quality advocates among the public are largely =
shut
out of the process so have difficulty learning about these problems, and
also have problems having their criticisms heard once they do have
information.
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Eagle County has encountered a number of similar problems with Hart and
Kodak systems, and has been very frustrated by the operation of this =
system
during the past few days. Will the reports of this frustration reach =
other
counties and other states? Probably not.
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=93The county needs to talk to their printer,=94 said Peter Lichtenheld,
director of marketing for Hart InterCivic. =93Hart did not print the =
ballots
... and the printer did not use Hart secure ballot stock.=94
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Unlike Boulder, Eagle County has its ballots manufactured by Hart. =
These
ballots are also problematic but in a different way. They do not seem =
to be
emitting dust particles, but they are showing evidence shadow imprinting =
of
portions of the ballot onto other portions. In our case, fortunately, =
this
is occurring only on the removable stub=85 but in past elections we have
experienced transfer of ballot toner onto the active part of the ballot =
(on
Diebold printed ballots in the past). =20
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In addition, Hart created (I do not think these are actually, =
technically,
=93printed=94) ballots are folded at the factory. These multiple folds =
are
very difficult to straighten out and have caused immense difficulty in
feeding the ballots into the scanners. On many batches there are one or
more ballots which fail to scan and therefore have to be deleted from =
the
digital records and rescanned in an adjacent batch. (Alternatively the =
batch
must be sequentially rescanned until successful, but this proves to be =
too
slow). In another area, the score at the top of each page which allows =
the
stub to be removed is too weak and hence the stub is extremely difficult =
to
remove, also delaying the scanning process and often leaving a rough =
edge at
the top of the ballot.
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Eagle County is stopping to dismantle parts from the scanners and vacuum =
the
interior on a very frequent basis. During the tests it was found that =
the
scanner needed extra white metal shields to be added to successfully =
scan
17=94 ballots. This information had not been provided in advance by =
Hart.
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It was also discovered that inserting ballots bottom first caused an =
extra
load on the ballot processing software, actually slowing the process and
causing it to run out of memory, frequently. When it ran out of memory =
the
program would not recover gracefully. This actually caused certain =
batches
of ballots to consistently fail to scan. When all ballots were loaded =
head
first, this problem was relieved (apparently for technical reasons =
related
to the design of the software, but probably never encountered during =
State
testing and in any case unknown to Hart system users). However it was =
then
discovered that since the first fold was about =BE of an inch from the =
top,
the ballots were bent in a direction which, if inserted top up, would =
not
allow the scanner roller to pick up the pages consistently. It was =
deemed
necessary to load the ballots bottom up. None of this was advised by =
Hart,
the voting system supplier, in advance and was all discovered in the =
initial
scanning process of this particular ballot in this election.=20
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Will reports of these problems reach Hart and other Hart county users? =
Will
someone make a huge manual of gotchas which will benefit local election
officials?=20
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Doubtful.
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The remaining references to attention to detail in this article are
admirable.. I note that John Gideon=92s 2005 report of the white line is
probably not entirely what Boulder County is experiencing although it =
may
be part of it. I suspect that there are a variety of single pixel or =
larger
black marks on the ballots as well. It would be better if the press were
able to get sufficient access to be able to report accurately on this =
topic.
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Harvie Branscomb
Eagle County Canvass Board
(Eagle is a user of a similar system to that used in Boulder County)
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Boulder County=92s counting crawls
Explanation for =91paper dust=92 still elusive=20
By Laura Snider <http://www.dailycamera.com/staff/laura-snider/> =
(Contact
<http://www.dailycamera.com/staff/laura-snider/contact/> )
Wednesday, November 5, 2008=20
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<http://www.dailycamera.com/photos/2008/nov/05/118736/> Bunny Pfau =
carries
a loudspeaker out to a waiting car as members of the Boulder County
Democrats clean up after a party Tuesday night.=20
Photo by Marty Caivano
Bunny Pfau carries a loudspeaker out to a waiting car as members of the
Boulder County Democrats clean up after a party Tuesday night.=20
A full day after polls closed =97 and long after Barack Obama claimed =
victory
in the presidential race =97 fewer than half the ballots cast in Boulder
County had been counted, earning the county the dubious distinction of =
being
the slowest vote counter in the state.
If the current counting pace continues around-the-clock, county =
residents
won=92t see final results until late Saturday.
The devil, it seems, is in the dust. Election officials believe that =
tiny
particles of paper dust are sticking to the lens on the scanner, =
creating a
vertical line running down the ballot. When the line passes through an =
empty
box, the computer may count a false vote.
To ensure accuracy, election workers are visually checking a picture of =
each
ballot on computers, searching for the troublesome dust line. Though
officials hope a couple of technological fixes will speed up the =
counting,
the rate of votes counted Wednesday hung around 1,200 ballots an hour.
=93Accuracy is more important than speed,=94 said Boulder County Clerk =
and
Recorder Hillary Hall. =93People expect accuracy =97 this is the job I =
was
elected to do.=94
The molasses speed of the counting process is frustrating Hall, but =
perhaps
more confounding is that there doesn=92t appear to be any obvious =
explanation
for why the paper-dust problem showed up now.
=93I just don=92t know,=94 she said. =93If this is a common problem, =
I=92ve frankly
never heard about it.=94
Looking for the changed variable
The vast majority of ballots in Boulder County are paper, and the votes =
are
counted by a Kodak optical scanner running software provided by Hart
InterCivic.
This year, Hall ran elections using the same machines scanning the same
ballots provided by the same vendors =97 Integrated Voting Solutions =97 =
in both
the Longmont mail-in election and the primaries without incident. Before
ballots were sent out for the general election, Hall=92s team ran 10,000 =
test
ballots through the system, again without any dust problems.
Because officials think the dust is linked to the paper, some election
workers speculate that the paper vendor must have changed something =97
perhaps the stock, the ink or the printing presses.
=93There were no changes in the paper. We used identical machines, the =
same
personnel and even the same facility,=94 said Frank Kaplan, election =
services
manager for Integrated Voting Solutions.
Kaplan=92s company printed more than 4 million ballots for November=92s
election, and he has not received any other dust complaints. He said it
could have something to do with Hart=92s system.
But Hart just pointed the finger back in the direction it came.
=93The county needs to talk to their printer,=94 said Peter Lichtenheld,
director of marketing for Hart InterCivic. =93Hart did not print the =
ballots
... and the printer did not use Hart secure ballot stock.=94
User error?
Even if there are no physical differences in the equipment or the paper,
this election differs in size. In the primary, nearly 36,000 ballots =
were
counted, but the total number of ballots for this election is likely =
closer
to 170,000, putting extra strain on the system.
=93Think of it like the Xerox copy machine in your office,=94 said John =
Gideon,
co-director of VotersUnite!, a non-partisan group that keeps track of =
voting
machine errors across the country. =93Usually someone comes by once a =
month,
opens it and cleans it out. The static electricity causes the dust on =
the
paper to get in there and gum everything up.=94
When running a massive number of ballots through a scanner, the same
principle holds, he said, only it=92s accelerated. Someone needs to be =
in
there cleaning out the dust as a regular part of the process.
Computer scientists Dan Wallach, from Rice University, and Douglas =
Jones,
from the University of Iowa, agree that it=92s pretty routine =
maintenance to
stop during the ballot-counting process and deal with dust. Both =
scientists
work with ACCURATE, a project funded by the National Science Foundation =
to
study electronic voting systems.
=93Dust in optical scan systems is a known problem,=94 Jones said. =
=93When I was
observing pre-election testing in Miami, (scanner) technicians had cans =
of
compressed air, and they blew out the scanners every 200 ballots. ... =
The
problem should be anticipated.=94
Pickier than most
Some problems with the Hart scanners were anticipated. Last winter,
Secretary of State Mike Coffman de-certified all Hart scanning equipment
because the scanners =93failed to count votes accurately when there are
extraneous marks on the ballot.=94
Coffman acknowledged that when a stray mark caused an over-vote, meaning
more than one box was counted, the system alerted a human to look at the
ballot. But when the stray mark caused a race that had not been voted on =
at
all to look like the voter made a choice, the machine would not flag it =
as a
problem. The same is true with the dust lines.
Coffman=92s testing board recommended that he institute regulations =
requiring
county officials to review every ballot, looking for the stray marks.
Instead, Coffman chose to re-certify the machines, which are used in 47
Colorado counties, without the extra regulations.
That creates the possibility that some counties using the Hart scanners =
may
be having dust problems and not know it.
=93We=92re thorough,=94 Hall said. =93We went above and beyond. If we =
were doing
(Colorado=92s) normal audit process, we might not even find this =
error.=94
Hall discovered the error Saturday when an election worker noticed there =
was
a lot of =93noise=94 in the digital picture of a ballot. On that =
particular
ballot, the noise didn=92t cause any mis-votes, but Hall was concerned. =
She
had her workers dig through ballots that had already been scanned until =
they
found a few errors, triggering a massive effort to look at every single
ballot.
According to Gideon of VotersUnite!, that kind of attention to detail is =
far
above what he=92s noticed in other parts of the country. In his home =
state of
Washington, nearly all the ballots are scanned on a similar system, but
there is no audit process or double-checking.
=93We just trust the machines,=94 he said.
Yakima County in Washington did report a similar dust problem with its
scanners in 2004, but it was only caught because a close race for =
governor
triggered a mandatory recount.
According to Neal McBurnett, a local computer scientist who has been =
helping
develop better election auditing processes for years, this type of =
behavior
isn=92t unusual. Instead, he thinks what Boulder County is doing is =
unusual.
=93Hillary (Hall) is stepping up to look for errors =97 in this case, =
little
specks of paper or paper dust,=94 McBurnett said. =93Normally, you just =
wouldn=92t
notice.=94
Comments
Posted by david on November 5, 2008 at 10:25 p.m. (
<http://www.dailycamera.com/comments/flag/225050/> Suggest removal)
How many messes in a row until we say Hillary Hall is not up to the job?
<http://www.davidthielen.info/politics/2008/11/hillary-hall-fails-once-ag=
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.html> http://www.davidthielen.info/politics...
Posted by springerwannab on November 5, 2008 at 10:54 p.m. (
<http://www.dailycamera.com/comments/flag/225065/> Suggest removal)
Uh, wasn't that the basis of her campaign? Speed and accuracy?
Posted by ideologicalcuddle on November 6, 2008 at 12:08 a.m. (
<http://www.dailycamera.com/comments/flag/225084/> Suggest removal)
Hillary should be applauded for noticing and dealing with these errors.
Other counties just didn't bother checking. Hopefully in future, this is =
a
problem that can be mitigated. But at least we'll have accurate vote =
counts.
Posted by johnny.sunshine on November 6, 2008 at 1:38 a.m. (
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I wonder if this mightn't be partly a product of our unusually low =
humidity
compared to other parts of the country, especially as the temperature =
drops,
perhaps increasing either the amount of dust coming off the paper =
because
it's drier than usual, or the dust's ability to acquire and hold a =
charge.
At the very least, two cheap fixes might be to: 1) get a humidifier =
going in
the counting room, and perhaps next year in the area where the paper =
ballots
are kept before the election, and 2) spray a mix of fabric softener and
water onto the carpet to reduce the amount of charge people impart to =
the
equipment as they scuffle around. There are more expensive and perhaps
chemical-sensitive-friendly products that do the same thing, but =
unscented
Downy and water (one capful to a spray bottle) works fine and is dirt =
cheap.
This being Boulder, someone will probably mention if that's now =
considered
not healthy.
And, of course, canned air, but that's been mentioned. And I assume the
equipment itself is grounded to an outlet in which the ground actually =
is
hooked up - you'd be surprised how often it isn't. Not sure how much =
that
would help, though, as the glass lenses won't, I think, lose their =
charge
merely by grounding the metal around them.
Any thoughts, techies?
Posted by boulderhippie on November 6, 2008 at 5:55 a.m. (
<http://www.dailycamera.com/comments/flag/225105/> Suggest removal)
Thanks for reconfirming for that my vote doesn't count.
Posted by boulder24 on November 6, 2008 at 6:42 a.m. (
<http://www.dailycamera.com/comments/flag/225120/> Suggest removal)
Thank you Ms. Hall for making sure that my vote is going to count by =
making
the tough decicion to do your job and ingnore the criticism that it has
invited!
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'color:navy'>I have a different take =
on your question,
“</span><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Why hasn’t Boulder County Clerk Hillary Hall heard =
about
dust problems on her Hart Scanners? I would suggest that the =
reason is
that there is no mechanism for this kind of problem sharing to take =
place.“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><s=
pan
style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New =
Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>The problem of spurious marks was detected by the =
State’s
Voting System Certification Team.=A0 A CONDITION OF USE was set up that =
would
require special manual pre-scanning treatment of all HART paper =
ballots.=A0 At a
hearing, we attempted to protect this condition.=A0 However, the =
powerful, secret,
Colorado County Clerks Association lobbied, using incomplete and =
erroneous
arguments, to protect the vendor and themselves from this condition of =
use. =A0=A0They
persuaded the SOS to remove the condition of use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoListParagraph><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoListParagraph style=3D'text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 =
level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><s=
pan
style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New =
Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>The architecture of all paper ballot vote counting =
systems certified
in Colorado is fatally flawed.=A0 None of these systems provide exports =
of the
ballot images and the interpretation of each vote on each individual =
ballot.=A0
Consequently, independent verification of vote interpretation is not =
possible –
not even by the Canvass Boards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoListParagraph style=3D'text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 =
level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><s=
pan
style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New =
Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>The LAT is contrived and inadequate.=A0 The procedures =
and
materials are idealized, and not at all representative of the real =
world.=A0 And,
in the case of Boulder County, the Clerk contrived to exclude the people =
most
knowledgeable of the HART system from serving on the LAT team.=A0 (Not =
to sound
like sour grapes, I was not permitted to serve.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoListParagraph><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoListParagraph style=3D'text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 =
level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><s=
pan
style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New =
Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Despite repeated requests that officials follow Colorado
Statutes and Rules, the County and the State have neglected to perform =
“acceptance
Tests” of the voting system.=A0 The system test would include =
ballot
printers/vendors as well as every other =
component/subsystem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>=A0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>From my perspective, the problem of spurious marks on =
HART
optical scanners is not a surprise and is not =
forgivable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Election officials should be held individually =
accountable for
this problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>=A0</span><span =
style=3D'color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Mistral;
color:navy'>Al Kolwicz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><b><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Colorado Voter Group<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:navy'>2867 Tincup Circle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Boulder, CO 80305<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:navy'>303-494-1540<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:navy'><a href=3D"mailto:AlKolwicz@xxxxxxxxx";
title=3D"mailto:AlKolwicz@xxxxxxxxx";>AlKolwicz@xxxxxxxxx</a></span><span
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:navy'>=
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:navy'><a =
href=3D"http://www.coloradovotergroup.org/";>www.ColoradoVoterGroup.org</a=
></span><span
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:navy'>=
</span><span
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:navy'>=
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:navy'><a =
href=3D"http://www.coloradovotergroup.blogspot.com/";>www.coloradovotergro=
up.blogspot.com</a></span><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:navy'>=
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'color:navy'>=A0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div>
<div style=3D'border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt =
0in 0in 0in'>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><b><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Harvie Branscomb
[mailto:harvie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:42 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ColoradoVoter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Hillary Hall; 'Margit Johansson'; 'Deb Adams'; 'Geof Cahoon'; =
'David
Larson'; angielayton@xxxxxxxx; 'Ivan Meek'; 'joseph richey'; 'Mary =
Eberle';
'Cliff West'; 'Tom Morris'; 'Dan Leftwich'; 'CFVI Attendees'; 'Citizens =
for
Verifiable Voting'; 'Al Kolwicz'; erika jensen; 'Neal McBurnett'; Ken =
Gordon;
'Morgan Carroll'; Paul Weissman; Ron Tupa; 'Teak Simonton'; Kathleen =
Curry;
Jared Polis; Bill Hobbs; 'John Kefalas'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Boulder County's counting crawls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Excerpt from article =
reproduced
in full at bottom of email (referring to Boulder County vote counting =
delays)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>To ensure accuracy, =
election
workers are visually checking a picture of each ballot on computers, =
searching
for the troublesome dust line. Though officials hope a couple of =
technological
fixes will speed up the counting, <span =
style=3D'background:yellow;mso-highlight:
yellow'>the rate of votes counted Wednesday hung around 1,200 ballots an =
hour</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“Accuracy is more
important than speed,” said Boulder County Clerk and Recorder =
Hillary
Hall. “People expect accuracy — this is the job I was =
elected to
do.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The molasses speed of =
the
counting process is frustrating Hall, but perhaps more confounding is =
that
there doesn’t appear to be any obvious explanation for why the =
paper-dust
problem showed up now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“I just =
don’t
know,” she said. “If this is a common problem, I’ve =
frankly
never heard about it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>The Laura Snider article is quite reasonable in its =
coverage of
the Boulder vote counting process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Why hasn’t Boulder County Clerk Hillary Hall heard =
about
dust problems on her Hart Scanners? I would suggest that the =
reason is
that there is no mechanism for this kind of problem sharing to take
place. The manufacturer has little motivation to encourage the =
sharing of
election problems with their equipment… the CCCI (clerks =
association)
doesn’t either, apparently, other than what happens through =
serendipity.
The state has no mechanism for this and the election quality advocates =
among
the public are largely shut out of the process so have difficulty =
learning
about these problems, and also have problems having their criticisms =
heard once
they do have information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Eagle County has encountered a number of similar problems =
with
Hart and Kodak systems, and has been very frustrated by the operation of =
this
system during the past few days. Will the reports of this frustration =
reach
other counties and other states? Probably =
not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333'>“The county needs to =
talk to
their printer,” said Peter Lichtenheld, director of marketing for =
Hart
InterCivic. “Hart did not print the ballots ... and the printer =
did not
use Hart secure ballot stock.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Unlike Boulder, Eagle County has its ballots manufactured =
by
Hart. These ballots are also problematic but in a different =
way.
They do not seem to be emitting dust particles, but they are showing =
evidence
shadow imprinting of portions of the ballot onto other portions. In our =
case,
fortunately, this is occurring only on the removable stub… but in =
past
elections we have experienced transfer of ballot toner onto the active =
part of
the ballot (on Diebold printed ballots in the past). =
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>In addition, Hart created (I do not think these are =
actually,
technically, “printed”) ballots are folded at the
factory. These multiple folds are very difficult to straighten out =
and
have caused immense difficulty in feeding the ballots into the =
scanners.
On many batches there are one or more ballots which fail to scan and =
therefore
have to be deleted from the digital records and rescanned in an adjacent =
batch.
(Alternatively the batch must be sequentially rescanned until =
successful, but
this proves to be too slow). In another area, the score at the top =
of
each page which allows the stub to be removed is too weak and hence the =
stub is
extremely difficult to remove, also delaying the scanning process and =
often
leaving a rough edge at the top of the ballot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Eagle County is stopping to dismantle parts from the =
scanners
and vacuum the interior on a very frequent basis. During the tests =
it was
found that the scanner needed extra white metal shields to be added to
successfully scan 17” ballots. This information had =
not been
provided in advance by Hart.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>It was also discovered that inserting ballots bottom =
first
caused an extra load on the ballot processing software, actually slowing =
the
process and causing it to run out of memory, frequently. When it ran out =
of
memory the program would not recover gracefully. This actually =
caused
certain batches of ballots to consistently fail to scan. When all =
ballots
were loaded head first, this problem was relieved (apparently for =
technical
reasons related to the design of the software, but probably never =
encountered
during State testing and in any case unknown to Hart system =
users).
However it was then discovered that since the first fold was about =BE =
of an inch
from the top, the ballots were bent in a direction which, if inserted =
top up,
would not allow the scanner roller to pick up the pages =
consistently. It
was deemed necessary to load the ballots bottom up. None of this =
was
advised by Hart, the voting system supplier, in advance and was all =
discovered
in the initial scanning process of this particular ballot in this =
election. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Will reports of these problems reach Hart and other Hart =
county
users? Will someone make a huge manual of gotchas which will benefit =
local
election officials? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'> Doubtful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>The remaining references to attention to detail in this =
article
are admirable.. I note that John Gideon’s 2005 report of the white =
line
is probably not entirely what Boulder County is experiencing =
although it
may be part of it. I suspect that there are a variety of single =
pixel or
larger black marks on the ballots as well. It would be better if the =
press were
able to get sufficient access to be able to report accurately on this =
topic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Harvie Branscomb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Eagle County Canvass Board<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>(Eagle is a user of a similar system to that used in =
Boulder
County)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'margin-bottom:11.25pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span
style=3D'font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333'>Bo=
ulder
County’s counting crawls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'margin-bottom:11.25pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span
style=3D'font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#666666'>Explanation for =
‘paper
dust’ still elusive <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3Dbyline1 style=3D'background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>By <a
href=3D"http://www.dailycamera.com/staff/laura-snider/";>Laura Snider</a> =
(<a
href=3D"http://www.dailycamera.com/staff/laura-snider/contact/";>Contact</=
a>)<br>
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter =
style=3D'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
9.75pt;background:#F2F8F2'><span style=3D'color:#333333'>
<hr size=3D2 width=3D150 style=3D'width:112.5pt' align=3Dcenter>
</span></div>
<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'background:#FCFCFA'><a
href=3D"http://www.dailycamera.com/photos/2008/nov/05/118661/";
title=3D""Click to enlarge photo" "><b><span =
style=3D'color:#2A726C;
text-decoration:none'><img border=3D0 width=3D220 height=3D147 =
id=3D"Picture_x0020_5"
src=3D"cid:image001.jpg@01C93FFE.926D4ED0"
alt=3D"http://media.dailycamera.com/bdc/content/img/photos/2008/11/05/N11=
06ELEC33-K_t220.jpg"></span></b></a><span
style=3D'color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'background:#FCFCFA'><a
href=3D"http://www.dailycamera.com/photos/2008/nov/05/118736/";
title=3D""Click to enlarge photo" "><b><span =
style=3D'color:#2A726C;
text-decoration:none'><img border=3D0 width=3D220 height=3D145 =
id=3D"Picture_x0020_6"
src=3D"cid:image002.jpg@01C93FFE.926D4ED0"
alt=3D"Bunny Pfau carries a loudspeaker out to a waiting car as members =
of the Boulder County Democrats clean up after a party Tuesday night. =
"></span></b></a><span
style=3D'color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3Dphotographer style=3D'background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Photo by Marty =
Caivano<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3Dcaption style=3D'background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Bunny Pfau carries a
loudspeaker out to a waiting car as members of the Boulder County =
Democrats
clean up after a party Tuesday night. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>A full day after polls =
closed
— and long after Barack Obama claimed victory in the presidential =
race
— fewer than half the ballots cast in Boulder County had been =
counted,
earning the county the dubious distinction of being the slowest vote =
counter in
the state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>If the current counting =
pace
continues around-the-clock, county residents won’t see final =
results
until late Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The devil, it seems, is =
in the
dust. Election officials believe that tiny particles of paper dust are =
sticking
to the lens on the scanner, creating a vertical line running down the =
ballot.
When the line passes through an empty box, the computer may count a =
false vote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>To ensure accuracy, =
election
workers are visually checking a picture of each ballot on computers, =
searching
for the troublesome dust line. Though officials hope a couple of =
technological
fixes will speed up the counting, <span =
style=3D'background:yellow;mso-highlight:
yellow'>the rate of votes counted Wednesday hung around 1,200 ballots an =
hour</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“Accuracy is more
important than speed,” said Boulder County Clerk and Recorder =
Hillary
Hall. “People expect accuracy — this is the job I was =
elected to
do.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The molasses speed of =
the
counting process is frustrating Hall, but perhaps more confounding is =
that
there doesn’t appear to be any obvious explanation for why the =
paper-dust
problem showed up now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“I just =
don’t
know,” she said. “If this is a common problem, I’ve =
frankly
never heard about it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><strong><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'=
>Looking
for the changed variable</span></strong><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The vast majority of =
ballots in
Boulder County are paper, and the votes are counted by a Kodak optical =
scanner running
software provided by Hart InterCivic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>This year, Hall ran =
elections
using the same machines scanning the same ballots provided by the same =
vendors
— Integrated Voting Solutions — in both the Longmont mail-in
election and the primaries without incident. Before ballots were sent =
out for
the general election, Hall’s team ran 10,000 test ballots through =
the
system, again without any dust problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Because officials think =
the
dust is linked to the paper, some election workers speculate that the =
paper vendor
must have changed something — perhaps the stock, the ink or the =
printing
presses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“There were no =
changes in
the paper. We used identical machines, the same personnel and even the =
same
facility,” said Frank Kaplan, election services manager for =
Integrated
Voting Solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Kaplan’s company =
printed
more than 4 million ballots for November’s election, and he has =
not
received any other dust complaints. He said it could have something to =
do with
Hart’s system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>But Hart just pointed =
the
finger back in the direction it came.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“The county needs =
to talk
to their printer,” said Peter Lichtenheld, director of marketing =
for Hart
InterCivic. “Hart did not print the ballots ... and the printer =
did not
use Hart secure ballot stock.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><strong><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'=
>User
error?</span></strong><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Even if there are no =
physical
differences in the equipment or the paper, this election differs in =
size. In
the primary, nearly 36,000 ballots were counted, but the total number of
ballots for this election is likely closer to 170,000, putting extra =
strain on
the system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“Think of it like =
the
Xerox copy machine in your office,” said John Gideon, co-director =
of
VotersUnite!, a non-partisan group that keeps track of voting machine =
errors
across the country. “Usually someone comes by once a month, opens =
it and
cleans it out. The static electricity causes the dust on the paper to =
get in
there and gum everything up.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>When running a massive =
number
of ballots through a scanner, the same principle holds, he said, only
it’s accelerated. Someone needs to be in there cleaning out the =
dust as a
regular part of the process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Computer scientists Dan
Wallach, from Rice University, and Douglas Jones, from the University of =
Iowa,
agree that it’s pretty routine maintenance to stop during the
ballot-counting process and deal with dust. Both scientists work with =
ACCURATE,
a project funded by the National Science Foundation to study electronic =
voting
systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“Dust in optical =
scan
systems is a known problem,” Jones said. “When I was =
observing
pre-election testing in Miami, (scanner) technicians had cans of =
compressed
air, and they blew out the scanners every 200 ballots. ... The problem =
should
be anticipated.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><strong><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'=
>Pickier
than most</span></strong><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Some problems with the =
Hart
scanners were anticipated. Last winter, Secretary of State Mike Coffman
de-certified all Hart scanning equipment because the scanners =
“failed to
count votes accurately when there are extraneous marks on the =
ballot.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Coffman acknowledged =
that when
a stray mark caused an over-vote, meaning more than one box was counted, =
the
system alerted a human to look at the ballot. But when the stray mark =
caused a
race that had not been voted on at all to look like the voter made a =
choice,
the machine would not flag it as a problem. The same is true with the =
dust
lines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Coffman’s testing =
board
recommended that he institute regulations requiring county officials to =
review
every ballot, looking for the stray marks. Instead, Coffman chose to =
re-certify
the machines, which are used in 47 Colorado counties, without the extra
regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>That creates the =
possibility
that some counties using the Hart scanners may be having dust problems =
and not
know it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“We’re
thorough,” Hall said. “We went above and beyond. If we were =
doing
(Colorado’s) normal audit process, we might not even find this
error.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Hall discovered the =
error
Saturday when an election worker noticed there was a lot of =
“noise”
in the digital picture of a ballot. On that particular ballot, the noise
didn’t cause any mis-votes, but Hall was concerned. She had her =
workers
dig through ballots that had already been scanned until they found a few
errors, triggering a massive effort to look at every single =
ballot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>According to Gideon of
VotersUnite!, that kind of attention to detail is far above what =
he’s
noticed in other parts of the country. In his home state of Washington, =
nearly
all the ballots are scanned on a similar system, but there is no audit =
process
or double-checking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“We just trust the
machines,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Yakima County in =
Washington did
report a similar dust problem with its scanners in 2004, but it was only =
caught
because a close race for governor triggered a mandatory =
recount.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>According to Neal =
McBurnett, a
local computer scientist who has been helping develop better election =
auditing
processes for years, this type of behavior isn’t unusual. Instead, =
he
thinks what Boulder County is doing is unusual.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style=3D'line-height:16.8pt;background:#FCFCFA'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“Hillary (Hall) is
stepping up to look for errors — in this case, little specks of =
paper or
paper dust,” McBurnett said. “Normally, you just =
wouldn’t
notice.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'line-height:14.25pt;background:#DFEADF'><b><span
style=3D'color:#273E1B'>Comments<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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0in 0in 0in'>
<p class=3Dcomment-info1 style=3D'background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Posted by <strong><span
style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>david</span></strong> on =
November 5,
2008 at 10:25 p.m. (<a =
href=3D"http://www.dailycamera.com/comments/flag/225050/";><span
style=3D'color:#2A726C;text-decoration:none'>Suggest =
removal</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'color:#333333'>How many
messes in a row until we say Hillary Hall is not up to the job? <a
href=3D"http://www.davidthielen.info/politics/2008/11/hillary-hall-fails-=
once-again.html"><b><span
style=3D'color:#2A726C;text-decoration:none'>http://www.davidthielen.info=
/politics...</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style=3D'border:none;border-top:solid #666666 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt =
0in 0in 0in'>
<p class=3Dcomment-info1 style=3D'background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Posted by <strong><span
style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>springerwannab</span></strong>=
on
November 5, 2008 at 10:54 p.m. (<a
href=3D"http://www.dailycamera.com/comments/flag/225065/";><span =
style=3D'color:
#2A726C;text-decoration:none'>Suggest =
removal</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'color:#333333'>Uh,
wasn't that the basis of her campaign? Speed and =
accuracy?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style=3D'border:none;border-top:solid #666666 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt =
0in 0in 0in'>
<p class=3Dcomment-info1 style=3D'background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Posted by <strong><span
style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ideologicalcuddle</span></stro=
ng> on
November 6, 2008 at 12:08 a.m. (<a
href=3D"http://www.dailycamera.com/comments/flag/225084/";><span =
style=3D'color:
#2A726C;text-decoration:none'>Suggest =
removal</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'color:#333333'>Hillary
should be applauded for noticing and dealing with these errors. Other =
counties
just didn't bother checking. Hopefully in future, this is a problem that =
can be
mitigated. But at least we'll have accurate vote =
counts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style=3D'border:none;border-top:solid #666666 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt =
0in 0in 0in'>
<p class=3Dcomment-info1 style=3D'background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Posted by <strong><span
style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>johnny.sunshine</span></strong=
> on
November 6, 2008 at 1:38 a.m. (<a
href=3D"http://www.dailycamera.com/comments/flag/225094/";><span =
style=3D'color:
#2A726C;text-decoration:none'>Suggest =
removal</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'color:#333333'>I wonder
if this mightn't be partly a product of our unusually low humidity =
compared to
other parts of the country, especially as the temperature drops, perhaps
increasing either the amount of dust coming off the paper because it's =
drier
than usual, or the dust's ability to acquire and hold a =
charge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'color:#333333'>At the
very least, two cheap fixes might be to: 1) get a humidifier going in =
the
counting room, and perhaps next year in the area where the paper ballots =
are
kept before the election, and 2) spray a mix of fabric softener and =
water onto
the carpet to reduce the amount of charge people impart to the equipment =
as
they scuffle around. There are more expensive and perhaps
chemical-sensitive-friendly products that do the same thing, but =
unscented
Downy and water (one capful to a spray bottle) works fine and is dirt =
cheap.
This being Boulder, someone will probably mention if that's now =
considered not
healthy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'color:#333333'>And, of
course, canned air, but that's been mentioned. And I assume the =
equipment
itself is grounded to an outlet in which the ground actually is hooked =
up -
you'd be surprised how often it isn't. Not sure how much that would =
help,
though, as the glass lenses won't, I think, lose their charge merely by
grounding the metal around them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'color:#333333'>Any
thoughts, techies?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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0in 0in 0in'>
<p class=3Dcomment-info1 style=3D'background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Posted by <strong><span
style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>boulderhippie</span></strong> =
on
November 6, 2008 at 5:55 a.m. (<a
href=3D"http://www.dailycamera.com/comments/flag/225105/";><span =
style=3D'color:
#2A726C;text-decoration:none'>Suggest =
removal</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'color:#333333'>Thanks
for reconfirming for that my vote doesn't count.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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0in 0in 0in'>
<p class=3Dcomment-info1 style=3D'background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Posted by <strong><span
style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>boulder24</span></strong> on =
November
6, 2008 at 6:42 a.m. (<a =
href=3D"http://www.dailycamera.com/comments/flag/225120/";><span
style=3D'color:#2A726C;text-decoration:none'>Suggest =
removal</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F2F8F2'><span =
style=3D'color:#333333'>Thank you
Ms. Hall for making sure that my vote is going to count by making the =
tough
decicion to do your job and ingnore the criticism that it has =
invited!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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