If I may add my modest comments to the ongoing blizzard, I would like to ask WHY the highly informed, sincere, and reasonable CiITIZEN Kolwicz was excluded from the PUBLIC machine- and procedure-testing opportunities?
Also I would like to add an admittedly speculative comment to the discussion of the "paper dust" mystery:
Perhaps among those many voters who tried using a felt-tip (black or blue) pen to fill in the boxes, and who found to their horror that the ink bled through to the opposite side of the ballot and decidedly MARKED the other side (foolishly also to be scanned), and who were unwillling or unable to obtain a fresh set of ballots, such voters instead applied some white-out pigment or adhesive bits to the offending bleed-through marks?
Have the likely flakes and bits of flotsam resulting from such an ill-advised remediation become what are being termed the mysterious "paper dust"? Even a ball-point pen (black or blue), if not bleeding-through, produces a "looming"-through of a shadow-mark, which a sensitive image scanner could easily acquire, encouraging such a faulty remediation.
Lou
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From: Al Kolwicz
Sent: Nov 6, 2008 11:11 AM
To: 'Harvie Branscomb' , 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' , 'erika jensen' , 'Neal McBurnett' , 'Ken Gordon' , 'Morgan Carroll' , 'Paul Weissman' , 'Ron Tupa' , 'Teak Simonton' , 'Kathleen Curry' , 'Jared Polis' , 'Bill Hobbs' , 'John Kefalas'
Subject: RE: Boulder County's counting crawls
Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758
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