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The Colorado Election Reform Commission report to the State Veterans and Military Affairs Committee.

On Friday, March 6th, 2009 Colorado Common Cause hosted an election forum. It was a follow-up or addendum to the Colorado Election Reform Commission meetings, and touched upon some issues that were not previously discussed by the commission.

The forum opens with an introduction fron Colorado Common Cause Executive Director Jenny Rose Flanagan followed by a keynote from newly appointed Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher. House Majority Leader Representative Paul Weissman makes some closing remarks.

Commission Ken Gordon and William Hobbs from the Colorado Secretary of State's office summarize recommendations from their commission to the Joint State Affairs Committee.

Colorado Election Reform Commission Feb. 17, 2009

In this final meeting of the Colorado Election Reform Commission votes were taken on recommendations made by each of the three subcommittees. Public testimony from Colorado Voter Group's Al Kolwicz, Coloradans for Voting Integrity's Mary Eberle, Colorado Common Cause's Jenny Flanagan, and CFVI's Joel Leventhal preceded the actual votes on the recommendations. Commissions Gordon and Hobbs will compile the final report which will be delivered to the legislature by March 1st as required.

Colorado Election Reform Commission
February 10, 2009
AGENDA

Ivan Meek, Director of the Democracy Technology Project
Richard Westphaul, Colorado Lawyers Committee
Martha Tierney, Colorado Lawyers Committee
House Majority Leader Representative Paul Weissman
Rich Coolidge, spokesperson for the Colorado Secretary of State

Subcommittee Reports and Recommendations
Technology & Auditing: Scott Doyle, Mark Baisley, Paul Hultin
Registration and Datbase (SCORE): Sally Misare, Bob Balink, Patti Nickel
Uniformity & Simplicity: Stephanie O’Malley, Scott Gessler, Scott Martínez

In this meeting of the Subcommittee on Technology and Auditing, Election Reform Commissioners Scott Doyle, Mark Baisley and Paul Hultin engage in a far-reaching discussion among themselves about the future of Colorado's elections. Doyle and Baisley extoll the merits of electronic voting, while Paul Hultin tries to place the discussion in a historical context of how we got here since the enactment of the Help America Vote Act in 2002. The recording gets hot around the 9-10 minute mark, through 24:00 and beyond.

Technology and Auditing Subcommittee of the Colorado Election Reform Commission hear testimony from:

Steve Pierson, Director of Science Policy/American Statistical Association
Philip Stark, Professor of Statistics at the University of California at Berkeley
Mark Lindeman, Bard College Professor
Arlene Ash, Statistician at Boston University's School of Medicine
Mary Batcher, Statistician at Ernst and Young
Neil McBurnett, Computer Security Consultant

The Colorado County Clerks Association invited the Election Reform Commission to their Winter 2009 Conference at the Pueblo Convention Center. Normally, public interest groups and citizen watchdogs are not permitted inside the Colorado Clerks Association meetings. However, the Election Reform Commission is subject to Colorado Sunshine Laws. So, democraticwing.org acquired the recording of that portion of the clerks' gathering.