SUMMIT COUNTY - DEMOCRATS RISK DISENFRANCHISEMENT
NEW
July 20 - No ballots for Democrats.
HART InterCivic printed the ballots for Summit County's upcoming
Democratic and Republican Primary elections. Problem is, they
did not print any Democratic ballots. Democratic absentee
voters were mailed the Republican ballots and risk losing their vote
if they do not return the Republican ballot to officials. Does
HART practice any quality control?
EAGLE COUNTY - LAT FINDS PROBLEMS
NEW July 19, 2006 -
Harvie Branscomb, Eagle County Democratic Party Chair, pleads with
Rep. Udall to change election rules to require
paper ballots, true audits and
bipartisan oversight.
BOULDER COUNTY - LAT FINDS PROBLEMS
NEW
July
20 - Logic and Accuracy Test reveals major problems
Canvass
Board member, Al Kolwicz, reports the answers to public questions
during the Logic & Accuracy Test. Click to read the revealing
and disturbing 2006 Primary LAT
Report.
June
23 - Elections coordinator reveals defect in Hart vote counting
system.
Election coordinator, Josh Liss, today revealed that the
Hart vote counting equipment
does not perform according to its specifications - see
Colorado Daily, June 23 This is
the reason that the Clerk wants to use non-secret ballots.
Liss asked CAMBER to help the
county to go forward with non-secret ballots.
CAMBER
rejects the county's solution, and offers to help
solve Hart's problem in a way
that protects the secret ballot.
One
must ask, why has this this clerk been working so hard to protect
the equipment supplier rather than working to protect the people?
June
23 - Colorado Daily
reports that Salas intends to choose non-secret ballot option.
Boulder County Clerk, Linda Salas, and
Hart InterCivic are working to
crush people's right to vote by secret ballot.
The Boulder County
Republicans and
Dean Schooler are among
those leading the fight to protect this basic right.
Boulder County election officials are
out of control.
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They are abusing the power of their
office to sacrifice basic voter rights.
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They are fixated on doing what is
most convenient for themselves rather than what is necessary for
a trustworthy election.
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They are working to cover up design
and implementation deficiencies with the county's election
procedures and the Hart vote counting equipment.
Clerk Salas is a candidate in the
upcoming primary election. If ballots include a unique
identifier, Salas can see how YOU voted. This potential for
intimidation must be stopped.
CAMBER believes that
there is still time to act,
today. Get the Democratic Party to join the effort, and
plead with the Secretary of State to protect secret ballots.
June
21 - Boulder County Republicans Urge County Clerk to Retain Secret
Ballot
This is great news. The Boulder
County Republican Party has
taken the lead to protect Boulder County voter's right to vote
by secret ballot. They have asked the clerk to choose the secret
ballot option.
Huge thanks to Rob McGuire, Chairman of
the Boulder County Republicans. We hope that the Democratic
Party will soon join the Republican Party's cry for secret ballots.
June
19 - Boulder County now refuses to disclose its security plan.
Boulder
County has refused
to disclose its election security plan. The plan exists.
The public has a right to verify that the plan is suitable. We
have objected.
After
hundreds of reports of security problems with voting equipment and
ID theft, it is imperative that the public have the opportunity to
verify for itself that the plan is complete and workable. It
is no longer adequate to rely on government promises of security
that have time and time again proven baseless.
The security plan is required to include a contingency plan.
We believe that either (a) the security plan does not protect the
election in the event that DRE voting equipment is decertified or
fails, or (b) that the security plan properly requires early voting
locations to stock paper ballots for every ballot style. We
want to verify that every county is required to stock paper ballots
at early voting locations.
June
16 - Boulder County refuses to comply
with the Colorado Open Records Act.
Boulder County is illegally refusing to produce records. These records
might contain proof that the County is planning to break the law.
Colorado's constitution prohibits the use of ballots that are marked in any way
whereby a voter can be associated with their votes. In the past, County
Clerk Salas has forced voters to use such a ballot.
Boulder County is planning to award a "no-bid" contract for ballot printing to
HART InterCivic on Tuesday, June 20th at the County Commissioners Meeting.
Click to read about
Boulder County's
unbelievable violation of the Colorado Open Records Act.
Colorado Voter
Check out the news at the
Colorado Voter BLOG
"A loose federation of organizations and individuals working to protect voters
from intimidation and elections from error and fraud."
Citizens for Verifiable Voting
A Boulder County based non-partisan group of citizens
dedicated to protecting the principles of democracy.
For more
information: Joe Pezzillo
Citizens for Verifiable Voting
Tom Halicki,
ex-elections officer for Boulder County, once said in response to a CAMBER Open Records Request,
"We
do not have any relevant emails or word documents relating that have a bearing
on how we came to make this decisions, i.e., there are no documents debating the
merits on one company versus another, or whether digital imaging is better than
optical scanning, or whether one vendor has a service plan that's better than
another."
Click to read
Clerk says - no records.
Click to read CAMBER requests
confirmation of missing records.
""It is enough that the people know there was an election.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing.
The people who count the votes decide everything."
-- Attributed to Josef Stalin --
