PositionStatement

UserPreferences

The following 178 words could not be found in the dictionary of 517 words (including 517 LocalSpellingWords) and are highlighted below:

Act Allow America Americans Boulder Citizens County Disabilities First Furthermore Help Insist Institute National Nov November Position Prepared Recognize Second Specifically Standards Statement Support Technology Verifiable Vote Voting We above accuracy accurate act all allow and any are as aspect at ballot ballots based be been by call can citizens citizenship completing compliance concerned concerns confidence consideration counting counts county data day dedicated demand democracy developed devices disabilities disenfranchisement do draft elected election elections electronic elements encompass ensures every fellow find fiscally for fraud generate give group have honest immediately important imprudent in insist integrity irresponsible irretrievable is it its laws level local loss machines meaningful meet most national needed new no non none not of official officials on only or organization other our paper partisan person premature preservation principles privacy process protecting protects provide purchasing recognize record recording recountability reform required resolve results sanctity secret secure select selecting since single software some speed standards state stop system systems technical that the therefore this time to transparent under us use verifiable very vote voting vulnerability we with yet

Clear message

Position Statement

First draft, Nov 3 2003. Second draft, Nov 20 2003.

Citizens for Verifiable Voting

a Boulder County non-partisan organization concerned with preservation of our democracy, insist that Boulder County immediately stop its process of selecting and purchasing new electronic voting machines.

We demand that the county only use a transparent, honest, verifiable and accurate voting system that protects and ensures the sanctity, privacy and integrity of every person's vote, the most important act of citizenship in a democracy.

We find that none of the systems under consideration by Boulder County can meet our concerns, none provide for a secure and verifiable paper ballot with meaningful recountability, and therefore none give us confidence in the results.

Furthermore, since technical standards for election systems have not yet been developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as required under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), it is premature, fiscally irresponsible, and imprudent for Boulder County to select any new voting system at this time.

We are very concerned with the vulnerability of all electronic systems for fraud, irretrievable data loss, and disenfranchisement in vote recording and counting. We do recognize that some elements of electronic devices may be needed to allow citizens with disabilities to generate verifiable paper ballots, in compliance with HAVA and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Specifically, we call on Boulder County officials, our state and national elected officials, and our fellow citizens to:

Insist on the use of paper ballots as the single, official record of the vote;
Allow no secret software in any voting machines or vote counting machines;
Recognize that accuracy is the most important aspect in the elections, not speed of completing the counts; and
Support HR 2239, and other election reform laws at the local, state, and national level that encompass and resolve all of the above concerns.

Prepared this day of November 3, 2003 by Citizens for Verifiable Voting, a Boulder County based non-partisan group of citizens dedicated to protecting the principles of our democracy.

EditText of this page (last modified 2003-11-20 01:59:57)
FindPage by browsing, title search , text search or an index
Or try one of these actions: LikePages, LocalSiteMap, SpellCheck