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Spring Training Is This
Saturday--April 10th!
We NEED YOU! Please come to our
training and please bring a friend!
Each day presents opportunities to talk about the issue of voting
integrity, especially in an election year. Do you struggle with knowing
what to say and how to say it ? Have HAVA , HR2239 , and the numerous other
legislative bills gotten you confused? Do you worry that someone will label
you a Luddite or conspiracy theorist? If you answered yes to any of these
questions you need to come to CFVI's April 10th training session! We will
educate you on the issues and train you to speak knowledgeably. We will
practice giving presentations and provide materials so you may educate
people in your communities. Our goal is to empower people to speak with
confidence about the issue as we are receiving numerous requests from
across the state for educational presentations. Attend CFVI's
Spring Training on April 10th and help us mobilize the voting
integrity movement! You can RSVP here. An agenda and event flyer for you to distribute are available for download
as well.
You can indicate whether you are attending (or not,
but we hope to see you!) at: RSVP Poll
The agenda for the event is below.
After Saturday you will leave equipped to "talk the talk and walk the
walk!"
Hope to see you on Saturday!
Bob McGrath
Director
Coloradoans for Voting Integrity
"Your Vote Counts!"
PS: If you
would like to volunteer to help with copying, collating, and registration
in preparation for this Saturday, please send an e-mail to: Spring Training Coordinator
CFVI’s
Spring Training Agenda
“Talk
the Talk & Walk the Walk: Safeguarding Our Vote”
April
10, 2004
8:00
a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Registration,
Coffee/Refreshments, Tabling Area
Slide
Show of Various Scanned Newspaper or Web Sites looping on screen
8:30 – 8:35 a.m. Welcoming
Remarks
8:35 –
9:00 a.m. “Why This Matters”
Members of the Board, Coloradoans for Voting
Integrity
We
will address the history of vote fraud and how it applies to today’s
vulnerabilities in recording and counting one’s vote. This session
will cover the terms and players in the debate, and will feature
CFVI’s “Top Ten List of Questionable Election Results.”
Don’t miss the Hosted Web Tour of Relevant Sites, showcasing sites to
bookmark for future visits.
9:00 –10:00 a.m. Session one:
“Talk the Talk”
How
to Discuss the Issues. This workshop will enable you to
discuss verifiable voting issues with your family, neighbors, peers, and
co-workers. We will offer suggestions on how to raise the e-voting issue
and defend your views with convincing arguments. Role-playing
demonstrations will approximate conversations with disbelieving and
uninformed citizens.
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. BREAK –
Visit with our Co-Sponsors, Refreshments
10:15 – 11:15 a.m. Session Two:
“Walk the Walk”
Presentation
Training: This portion of the workshop will help
you identify speaking opportunities. We will rehearse giving presentations
using either PowerPoint or basic talking points.
County-focused
efforts: We will provide you with the location
and names of your county election officials, and questions to ask regarding
the voting process in your county. This is a key piece of our strategy:
voters asking polite yet firm questions regarding verifiable voting.
11:15 –
12:00 p.m. Closing: “Where Do We Go
From Here?”
Members of the Board, Coloradoans for Voting
Integrity
Discussion
of current legislation efforts, plus back-up strategies for demanding paper
ballots as an alternative to machine-based ballots, including possible
legal injunctions. We will hold a group brainstorming session asking for
suggestions on potential coalition partners, future presentation topics,
and close with Q&A.
Events:
Event Date: Apr 10, 2004
Volunteer Activity - "Spring
Training" - Protecting Your Vote:
What: Speakers, Videos, Workshops, Resources
• Electronic Voting Machines
• Working with the Media
• How to Give Presentations
• Pending Legislation
• Coalition-Building & Outreach
• Defining Terms
***** Poll Watching Training Has Been Postponed to A Date Closer to the
November Elections*****
Please visit the CFVI
Forums (Events) for more information.
Sponsored by Coloradoans for Voting Integrity, a non-partisan group of
citizens concerned with verifiable voting. Co-sponsored by AUMC Peace &
Justice Commission, City of Arvada
Peace & Social Justice Committee. Seeking additional co-sponsors and
speakers.
Find
out more.
Event Date: Apr 20, 2004
Meetings - CFVI / Election Reform Meetup:
PLEASE NOTE: THE MEETING DATE FOR APRIL
HAS BEEN MOVED OUT BY onE WEEK TO APRIL 20TH DUE TO THE COLORADO
CAUCUS ON APRIL 13TH.
(2nd Tuesday of every month.)
Nominations for a Venue are open at:
http://electionreform.meetup.com/
and we are suggesting that everyone vote
for the Arvada
United Methodist
Church this month.
Coloradoans for Voting Integrity
7114 West Jefferson Avenue, Suite
100, Lakewood, CO 80235
Phone 303-231-1031, Fax 303-980-0609
e-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.cfvi.org
Find
out more.
Latest News Articles:
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Florida
Senate plan would ban paper recounts with electronic voting machines
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Florida
Sun-Sentinel
By Jennifer Peltz
Tallahassee
Bureau
Posted April 1 2004
TALLAHASSEE · South Floridians pushing for a touch-screen voting
paper trail are steamed about a state Senate proposal that they say
runs counter to their cause.
Tucked into the 90-page proposal (SB 3004) is a decree that "a
manual recount may not be conducted of undervotes on touch-screen
machines," which are used in South
Florida's three big counties.
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Posted by: Admin on 2004-04-02
09:02:40
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A Paper
Ballot, a Newspaper, and a Polaroid Camera
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OpEdNews.Com
by Allen Snyder
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‘May I have a paper ballot, please?’
If you’re any kind of concerned, informed, and registered
American voter, fearful and distrustful of the current
system’s multiple shortcomings, worried about how whacko
neo-conservatives from the GOP’s right-wing have corrupted it
almost beyond recognition with their myriad dirty tricks and
Nixonian skulduggery, these will be the first words out of your
mouth when you go to the polls in November to cast your vote
against Bush.
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Posted by: BobMcgrath on
2004-03-30 20:02:45
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How
E-Voting Threatens Democracy
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Wired
News
By Kim Zetter
02:00 AM Mar. 29, 2004 PT
In January 2003, voting activist Bev Harris was holed up in the
basement of her three-story house in Renton, Washington,
searching the Internet for an electronic voting machine manual,
when she made a startling discovery.
Clicking on a link for a file transfer protocol site belonging to
voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems, Harris found about
40,000 unprotected computer files. They included source code for
Diebold's AccuVote touch-screen voting machine, program files for
its Global Election Management System tabulation software, a Texas voter-registration list with voters'
names and addresses, and what appeared to be live vote data from 57
precincts in a 2002 California
primary election.
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Posted by: Admin on 2004-03-30
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No paper?
Vulnerable elections
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The
Miami Herald Opinion Page
Posted on Sat, Mar. 27, 2004
BY AVI RUBIN
I became embroiled in the national debate about electronic voting
security when I co-authored a report exposing serious security
flaws in Diebold's AccuVote-TS machines.
The day before we released our report in July, Maryland officials announced
that they were buying $55.6 million worth of these machines. Rather
than asking me to work with them, which I offered to do several
times, state officials immediately targeted me with criticism and
discounted my findings. They continue to do so despite three
subsequent studies, two of them paid for by the state, which
confirmed our initial findings.
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2004-03-30 10:36:51
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Protecting
Our Vote a Non-Partisan Issue
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By Bob McGrath, Director,
Coloradoans for Voting Integrity
He turned off the news. He was
tired of seeing the demonstrations on CNN, Fox and all the
networks.
It didn’t seem quite possible that only 48 hours ago all the
pollsters had projected a clearcut win for the challenger. A Vietnam
vet, the challenger’s record had become part of his appeal
for a change in national defense priorities.
Hard to believe that when the polls closed last night, the networks
and the pollsters were confounded once again as the President
appeared to have swept the election – in several states,
actually converting his projected double-digit losses into
double-digit wins.
So the protests began. The calls for recounts, the filing of legal
challenges, and the spiriting away of the infamous electronic
voting machines, or “DRE’s,” all became
precursors to the riots that followed in state capitols and major
metropolitan areas – 350 at last count – that resulted
in police curfews and civil defense patrols.
It could have been avoided. He thought about how people could have
insisted upon paper ballots as a check on the unauditable
DRE’s. As news broke of mysterious overvotes and last-minute variances
in vote totals around the country, voting officials had simply
recorded the votes for the President and his party. In several
instances, the voting totals made no sense. How to explain that
every Congressional race in Maryland,
for example, won by the same margin, of 818,181 votes? Funny how
those numerals translated to HA HA HA in alpha characters…..
Guess it was time to reconcile himself to another four years of
President Kerry, and hope Sen. McCain would consider running again
in 2012.
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2004-03-29 16:08:18
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for Voting Integrity
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