Fwd: [election_stats] Congressional Budget Office says HR811 Fully Funded -Sep 7, 2007

[Ron Baiman]

Friends,

 

FYI,

 

Ron Baiman

Kathy Dopp <kathy...@gmail.com> wrote:

Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:53:41 -0600
From: "Kathy Dopp" <kathy...@gmail.com>
To: "Election Stats" <uscv_...@uscountvotes.org>
Subject: [election_stats] Congressional Budget Office says HR811 Fully Funded -Sep 7, 2007

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Friends,

Forbes just published an article about the opposition to HR811, saying that:

"state and local election officials and election machine makers ..
contend the timelines are unrealistic, ... and the money allotted to
replace existing systems, $1 billion, is insufficient"

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/09/06/ap4090109.html

and CQ Politics is reporting that:

"Strong opposition from state and local officials is threatening to
derail an election-machine bill [HR811] originally slated to come to
the House floor Thursday."

http://www.cqpolitics.com/2007/09/state_officials_opposition_cou.html

But the truth is - there is no funding problem; and there is plenty of time.

A Sep 7, 2007 letter from the Congressional Budget Office states:

"CBO concludes that the bill's authorizations of appropriations would
be sufficient to cover the costs of state and local governments for
complying with requirements to produce and provide voter verifiable
paper ballots, pre-printed ballots, a secure chain of custody for
ballots, and manual audits of election results."

and, with respect to HR811's requirements with 2012 deadlines:

"CBO can not determine the costs to state and local governments of
complying with requirements to ensure access by the disabled, and the
durabiliy and readability of ballots and the bill would not authorize
a specific sum for those purposes (but would authorize the
appropriation of such sums as may be required in 2009)."

http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/CBO-HR811.pdf

Some jurisdictions would only need to upgrade existing ballot marking
devices with a firmware upgrade and self-sealing ballot privacy
envelopes to comply to the 2012 requirements which were demanded by
disability advocacy organizations. Only $555 Million is required
nation-wide to replace all paperless DRE voting systems.

Here is a report by Verified Voting showing that States currently
using paperless DRE voting machines have plenty of time to replace
them with auditable voting equipment prior to the November 2008
election:

"How Long Does it Take to Change Voting Systems"
http://electionmathematics.org/em-voting-systems/VotingSystemChange.pdf

Find out how much money your state has remaining of its HAVA funds in
this US Election Assistance report
http://www.eac.gov/docs/Congressional%20Report%20Public%20Release%20Final.pdf

A one page summary of monies immediately available to replace existing
paperless DRE voting machines (which only would cost $555 Million
nation-wide):
http://www.getitstraightby2008.org/c.hnKKIINpEqG/b.2725733/k.4D9B/Demand_Reliable_Voting_Machines_Now/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx

The House should vote "YES" on HR811 and vote "NO" on the "unfunded
mandate" amendment to the bill.
http://www.house.gov

Americans deserve publicly verifiable, accurate election outcomes in 2008.

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Kathy Dopp

The material expressed herein is the informed product of the author
Kathy Dopp's fact-finding and investigative efforts. Dopp is a
Mathematician, Expert in election audit mathematics and procedures; in
exit poll discrepancy analysis; and can be reached at

P.O. Box 680192
Park City, UT 84068
phone 435-658-4657

http://utahcountvotes.org
http://electionmathematics.org
http://electionarchive.org

Amendment Suggestions for the Ballot Integrity Act
http://electionmathematics.org/em-legislation/S1487Amendments.pdf

Voters Have Reason to Worry - Response to Those Who Encourage Voters to Trust
http://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body
and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day," wrote
Thomas Jefferson in 1816

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