Voting in Colorado

[Wildewolfe]

I just got back from voting at the local motor vehicle department. They used diebold machines there BUT the election workers were well versed, the machines printed a voter verifiable paper audit that spools into a locked canister after you verify it and the touch screens were well calibrated. There were no external access points that I could see on the machines themselves for PCMCIA cards or anything else and the machines were locked with tamper proof seals (so they tell me).

I would still vastly prefer to see paper balloting, but my experience was a positive one overall.

[niyad]

1. thank you for that bit of encouraging news!! here's to VICTORY

[hlthe2b]

2. Yes.. I believe they are Sequoia units.. I early voted on them

last week at a police precinct in Denver... The predominently elderly election workers seemed to have their system down already and they were on top of each and every machine, it appeared.

I would not say they were totally secure, but certainly better than other areas throughout the country...at least from the periphery. We shall see..


We have a very long ballot this year and I was pleased to see many voters had printed out the ballot and marked their choices ahead of time. This helped to then mark choices on the touch screen, review touch screen choices before entering, and then reviewing the printout of intended voices before the final entry. People seemed to be double and triple checking. I know I did...

[kstewart33]

3. That's good to hear.

I voted absentee in Denver. I hope we escape the machine messes reported in other states.

[Touchdown]

4. Are you sure Co. bought Diebold?

As far as I know, they bought all Sequoia machines.:shrug:

Where is your DMV? What part of the state?

[Wildewolfe]

5. Adams county

And they were absolutely Diebolds... Great big logo on the front of every machine.

[chat_noir]

6. funny stuff: “Activist Judges” Plot to Eliminate Day of Week

Yesterday, I received a startling pre-recorded election message on the phone: "Hi, this is John Andrews, calling as a former senator and a new grandfather. To protect our families and our freedoms we need to pass term limits for judges, Amendment 40. I hesitated to call you on Sunday, but activist judges will take away Sunday and all our traditions if we the people don't stop them. Don't let New Jersey happen here." That's right: Judges apparently now have the power to eliminate days of the week. If Sunday is taken from us, what's next: Thursday? If the judges are going to take a day from us, why can't it be Monday?

And that "Don't let New Jersey happen here," remark--I'm guessing that's a thinly veiled reference to the New Jersey Supreme Court's recent ruling that gay couples should have the same legal rights as straight couples. But the statement is so vague, it could be referencing anything associated with the Garden State that might take root in Colorado: Landfills, Bon Jovi, the Nets.

Maybe Andrews was afraid that a straightforward mention of the topic of gay rights would be too sensitive right now, as Tim Haggard, deposed pastor of New Life Church and one of the most powerful conservative religious forces in Colorado recently admitted that he's at least a little bit gay. (Well, what he actually wrote in his statement was "I am guilty of sexual immorality" and "There’s a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life." Doesn't sound like he's ready to chuckle along to an episode of Queer Eye For the Straight Guy yet.)

But what does the fact that a prominent Colorado Springs evangelical leader just admitted to sex-and-drug shenanigans in Denver suggest? Maybe New Jersey has already happened here.


http://www.newwest.net/index.php/city/article/activist_judges_plot_to_eliminate_day_of_week/C94/L94/



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