Boulder County Elections (fwd)

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

Mary Forthofer, wife of Green Party gubernatorial and congressional 
candidate Ron Forthofer, has joined us in sending the commissioners 
her request for hand-counting.

PLEASE join her and solicit your friends...

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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 08:22:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Mary Forthofer <mary_forthofer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: commissioners@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Boulder County Elections


  Dear Boulder County Commissioners:

As a retired computer professional with 40 years of software 
experience, I have absolutely no confidence in elections run by 
private companies using proprietary software.  In my long career, I 
have seen myriad careless/inadvertent errors - plus a few cases of 
malicious tampering - that undermined the integrity and/or reliability 
of a wide range of computer systems, both public and private.

We the People deserve voting mechanisms that are above reproach!  Our 
democratic processes are too important to be relegated to secret 
software.

  I am greatly concerned about Boulder County's election process.  I 
have volunteered to help hand-count Boulder County ballots in the 
past.  To help ensure honest elections, I would gladly volunteer my 
time and computer expertise in the future as well.

Thank you in advance for your consideration of this matter.

Sincerely,
Mary Forthofer
3912 Divot Court
Longmont, CO 80503
mary_forthofer@xxxxxxxxx



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