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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 07:14 PM
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28. (CO) Election report on horizon


Monday, March 21, 2005

Election report on horizon
By RICHARD VALENTY Colorado Daily Staff Writer

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Boulder's Evan Ravitz worked as a programmer for Xerox in the 1970s. Ravitz asked the ERC Friday to consider recommending 100-percent hand counting in the next election in part to eliminate any doubt of digital mistakes - especially since digital mistakes are not always apparent to human observers.

Ralph Shnelvar, a Boulder software programmer, said he heard Ravitz call for hand-counting many months ago and recalled his immediate response.

"At that time, I thought Evan Ravitz was an idiot and a flake," said Shnelvar.

Shnelvar said he has since changed his tune about both Ravitz and hand-counting, calling the practice cheaper and faster than the arduous process Boulder County went through in 2004.

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http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2005/03/20/news/news02.txt
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