Educational Resources on Internet, Email and Fax Voting

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The recommendation for a paper ballot mandate reflects the overwhelming evidence across the country that electronic voting machines are unreliable and insecure for the counting and recording of votes. Voter Action urges that the Colorado legislature adopt this recommendation with an amendment requiring that this mandate become effective for the 2010 elections.

A panel charged with fixing Colorado's election system voted Tuesday to support a recommendation requiring the state to hold all-paper-ballot elections starting in 2014, but one commission member compared the recommendation to being held hostage.

Dan Wallach, associate professor of computer science at Rice University, also recommended that Colorado use paper ballots counted on scanning machines.
"Hand-marked paper ballots that are machine-scanned are the best technology that's on the market today," Wallach testified at the state Election Reform Commission meeting at the state Capitol.

Rice University professor Dan Wallach, a nationally recognized voting-machine expert, said paper ballots counted by scanning machines are much more resistant to widespread election fraud.
"In terms of the systems that are available today, hand-marked paper ballots counted by scanners are the best technology," Wallach said.

An electronic voting machine in Adams County repeatedly failed to accept a vote for a Democratic state Senate candidate — instead registering the vote for her Republican opponent — at an early voting site last week and has been removed from service, the Aurora Sentinel reports Wednesday.

Denver election officials were breathing a little easier Saturday after they determined that 11,000 mail-in ballots they feared were missing were actually never sent by a vendor.
The U.S. Postal Service said Friday afternoon that its Denver mail processing facility received 10,364 ballots on Oct. 16 and delivered them within a couple days.
But the California printing company hired by Denver Elections said it delivered 21,450 ballots to the postal facility on that date.

There's an agitated vibe at the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder's election department Tuesday morning.

Though election day's only three weeks away and mail-in voting has started, residents waiting in line worry about missing and mistake-bearing paperwork.

Mary O'Donnell waits clutching two mail-in ballots. One is her own, but she wants a replacement after she mistakenly printed her name on the return envelope instead of signing. The other ballot is her roommate's, which arrived despite a data-entry error that shipped it with the wrong ZIP code.

The close working partnership between Holly Lowder and John Paulsen has been well-known for years among Colorado county clerks and state election workers.
Lowder, who resigned as state elections director this month, helped launch Paulsen's government contractor business in 1993 when she bought his voter registration software for Alamosa County.
She was Alamosa County clerk for about 25 years and held several state leadership positions.
Paulsen, owner of LEDS LLC, went on to sell his software to more than 30 counties.