HB1219 on military and overseas civilian voting

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Subject: HB1219 on military and overseas civilian voting

From: Margit Johansson <margitjo@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:26:06 -0600

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Tomorrow at 1:30 PM the Colorado Senate State...Affairs Committee will consider HB1219 (UMOVA), a Colorado adaptation of a "Uniform Law Commission" bill, the "Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act".

CFVI sent the attached letter to the five committee members, asking them to amend two aspects of the Colorado version of the bill: We are AGAINST allowing voted ballots to be returned electronically, involving the Internet; and we are AGAINST allowing ALL military, absent or not, to participate in the program devised for absent military and overseas civilians.

If a state includes a provision for allowing voted ballots to be returned electronically, and also allows military that don't need special provisions for speeding up the voting process to use these provisions, it will mean many more voted ballots could be returned electronically, i.e. vulnerable to hacking.

If our suggested amendments are ignored or defeated, we could ask you to contact your state senator and request that our amendments be passed on the floor of the Senate.

Note that our letter has appendices. That is because since our last Secretary of State told everybody that internet voting could be made secure, we are giving people some good information to the contrary.

Best,

Margit Johansson

Coloradans for Voting Integrity (CFVI)