Kathy:
Here is the list of
Joycelynn Straight
Unless stated otherwise, all
meetings are at the address shown under the County’s name.
County
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Meeting
Date and Time
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Commission Office: (435) 438-6466 Clerks Office: (435) 438-6463 |
Aug. 29, 2005 1 p.m. |
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95
East Main St.,Castle Dale, UT Commission Office: Clerks Office:
(435) 381-5106 |
Aug. 29, 2005 10:30 |
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Special
Commission meeting to discuss contract with Lt. Governor--no action will be
taken. |
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Council Chambers Council Office:
(435) 259-1346 Clerks Office: (435) 259-1322 |
Sep. 6, 2005 3 p.m.
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County
Council intends to approve the contract at this meeting. |
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2001 S State St., Salt Lake City, UT Council Office: (801)
468-2930 Council Clerks Office: (801) 468-3532 Election Clerks
Office: (801) 468-3427 |
Aug. 30, 2005 9:30 a.m.
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Room
N2003--County Council will discuss the contract at this meeting. No public comments. Sep 6, 2005 3 p.m.
Council
Chambers, 1st Floor--County Council will vote on the contract at
this meeting. Public comments allowed - three minutes per person. |
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Commission Office:
(435) 336-3220 Clerks Office:
(435) 615-3200 |
Aug. 31, 2005 11 a.m.Demonstration
of Diebold equipment. Aug. 31, 2005 1 a.m. Public
comments allowed. |
Sep. 7, 2005 ? |
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Commission
Clerk: (801) 851-8111 Elections
Office: (801) 851-8128 Clerks Office: (801) 851-8109 |
Sep. 9, 2005 9 a.m. |
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2380
Washington Blvd.,Ogden, UT Commission Office: (801) 399-8402 Clerks Office: (801) 399-8484 |
Sep. 6, 2005 10 a.m. |
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I am Kathy Dopp, founder of Utah Count Votes, member
of Open Voting Consortium, president of National Election Data Archive, MS in
math U of Utah, started the third oldest Internet Service business in Utah in
1994 which I sold.
You have about five options:
1. Diebold DREs
2. Punch-cards w/ Diebold DREs
3. Punch-cards w/ Telephone
voting for disabled
4. Diebold Opti-scans
w/ Diebold DREs
5. Diebold Opti-Scans
w/ telephone voting
6. ES&S opti-scans
w/ AutoMARK for disabled
Diebold DREs are inaccurate. No way to detect or
correct errors. Even if voters take the extra step to compare what is on the
monitor w/ the paper roll, which most won't, they have no way to know what the
electronic record in the machine or the bar code on the paper rolls say. If there is an innocent error programming the
ballot definition that switches the votes of two candidates like there was in
the mock election, then the same error would be on the bar code, and counting
the paper rolls is highly impractical. I
submit that the entire design of paper-rolls is flawed and designed
specifically to make it difficult to detect or correct insider tampering and
preserve ballot order to see how voters vote.
Diebold Opti-scans voting
machines have security holes a mile wide in them, but at least they can be easily
hand counted and independently audited for accuracy. But it would mean segregating the ballots of the
disabled on Diebold DREs, which is very unfair to the disabled.
I highly recommend the ES&S opti-scan
with AutoMARK because the system is much more secure and treats the disabled
fairly.
Whatever you chose, it is critical that vote counts be audited and that detailed election data be released that
would enable independent analysts to evaluate the accuracy of
Here is my handout.
Thank you. Please remember that lives all over the world depend on
maintaining American democracy.