Stop Boulder election brain-damage!

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

This is what I just sent to all my local email lists, and, without the 
bottom section, to local editors. You're welcome to forward it on to 
any of your email lists. Edit it, replace it, but keep it going. It's 
"viral advertising" like this which made Jared Polis at age 30 the 
richest man in Boulder, and it could put away DRE's for good... Evan


Friends, Boulderites, Countyfolk, your ears!

You DON'T have to  be a techie -or relive the brain-damaging details of 
Boulder's recent elections and "process"- to help make sure future elections 
are honest! Please email the County Commissioners at 
commissioners@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and ask for hand-counting, which is:

Public: Poll watchers watch as their neighbors count. Poll watchers now can 
only stare blankly at a computer, as the software is proprietary -secret. When 
some has been accidentally revealed, it turns out to be error-ridden and 
insecure.

Inexpensive:  $1.82/vote in Canada. Much less with volunteers. I easily found 
142 volunteers in 3 days via email to hand count the 2004 election. With 
utility bill inserts etc. the County could easily find all they need.

Accurate: the best, according to a 2001 MIT/Caltech study (NYT, 9/19/04)

Fast: Done at precincts by the poll workers

Community-based: employs many lower-income locals, not a few high-priced 
outsiders

Traditional: used for centuries in Austria, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, 
Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, 
Switzerland and most of the world.

If you really want to talk about DREs (the worst method, which the County Clerk 
tried to ram through over the holidays) VVPATs, HAVA, etc. please go to 
VotersUnite.org and get the quick download of "Myth Breakers: Facts about 
Electronic Elections." If you spend time learning this stuff, please also write 
a letter to editors. Now is the time! Here are their emails, which you should 
send your letter to individually to make them feel special:

openforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
opinion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
staff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
opinions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
editorial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

MOST IMPORTANT! Please forward this to your local email lists!