Dear Margit,
We need your help. Colorado legislators have passed a bill that would threaten verifiable voting in Colorado by allowing ballots to be cast over the Internet. The bills, HB 1205, is a well-intended effort to enfranchise service voters overseas, but HB 1025 does not offer voters a secure, verifiable ballot.
You can help! Visit our action center to urge Governor Ritter to veto House Bill 1205 and then pass this on:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/199/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27104
Sending voted ballots over the Internet may seem the next logical step in elections - but wait. Computer scientists and, most recently the Federal National Institute of Standards and Technology, have warned us that sending voted, secret ballots over the Internet is a uniquely challenging task. Secret ballots aren't like a credit card transaction that you can track and verify. The ballot is submitted - and its contents can't be traced, so there is no way to verify the ballot independently of computer software. It's not impossible that one day some form of Internet voting may offer secure ballots, but we clearly aren't at that point yet. Malicious software could change, fabricate, or delete votes cast over the Internet.
Our men and women in uniform, and our citizens overseas, deserve every opportunity to vote, but it does not enfranchise voters if a systems allows votes to be lost or stolen undetectably. There are better alternatives: allowing blank ballots to be sent electronically, and allowing sufficient time for overseas and service voters to send back a ballot.
Please tell Governor Ritter to veto HB 1205:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/199/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27104
Thank you for all you do!
Best regards,
The Team at Verified Voting
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