Todays Narrow Escape from Internet Vo6ng?

North Jeco Tea Party Marilyn Marks

4.26.15

HB15-1130 Military/Overseas (or Internet?) Vo6ng Bill

Stated goal---increase military voter access for municipal (hometown) elecGons.

Bill as introduced---Nothing about military voGng.

Bill amended (without public knowledge) to add broad-based Internet voGng with no rules.

Bill Sponsors---Nordberg ( R ), Hill ( R ), Garcia (D), Ryden (D)

Undened Electronic Transmission of Voted Ballots

TO BE VALID, A BALLOT MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE CLERK NOT LATER THAN THE CLOSE OF POLLS, OR THE VOTER SHALL SUBMIT THE BALLOT FOR MAILING, ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION, OR OTHER AUTHORIZED MEANS OF DELIVERY NOT LATER THAN 7:00 P.M. ON THE DATE OF THE ELECTION.

Electronic Transmission?

Text message a ballot sele? Skype the voted ballot? Goggle-doc the voted ballot? Tweet the ballot? E-mail the ballot? iphone app? Fax? (whats a fax???)

Sails through House/Senate House CommiWee ---Unanimous Full House---Unanimous Senate CommiWee---sent warnings, experts leWers, pleas, tesGmony. Unanimous YES.

Full Senate---passed with one NO vote on 2nd reading. (Laura Woods voted NO.)

Full Senatebarely passes vote to return to CommiWee on 3rd reading. UNUSUAL MOVE! (some amendments made.)

Full Senate 2nd readingtoday---Lundberg/Woods amendments passed with Hill support!

Ci6zen Pushback Turned the Rs around!CiGzens do not want

Internet voGng! Emails, Phone calls, leWers to Senators. Facebook posGngscalling out the R lawmakers Hack the Vote arGcle--Kathryn Porter (Poli@chicks) Surveys (Facebook, County GOP ocers and random conservaGve friends.)

Its only email! Email is riskiest method of voGng. Risks of deleGon, manipulaGon, diversion, malware introducGon.

Email is about the least secure method of [voted] ballot delivery. Brian Hancock of the U.S. ElecGon Assistance Commission All commercially available systems that allow voters to send their voted ballots over the Internet, whether via email or a website, are insecure. Barbara Simons, author of Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?

What REALLY has us concerned --Current LAW on overseas or military voters eligibility to vote by email in STATE elecGons: In circumstances where another more secure method, such as returning the ballot by mail, is not available or feasible --SOS interpretaGon: I am a member of the Uniformed Services or Merchant Marine on ac@ve duty, or an eligible spouse or dependent of such a member, or a U.S. ci@zen temporarily residing outside the U.S., or Other U.S. ci@zen residing outside the U.S.;

Not available or feasible?

No stamp? Bad hair day? Waited unGl 6:45 pm on ElecGon Day? My mailman is lousy. Hangover? SOS refused to make/ enforce rules, or even tell voters the law.

The Result?

Pueblo claims that 90% of military voters vote by email.

Semester at Sea students dont leave email rolls.

Metro Denver email voters

The excep6on has become the rule.

Email or On-line ballot marking?

Massive privacy issue hidden from voters. --Voter gets email with link. --Click link and input personal data. --Customized ballot Web form is generated. --Vote (like an online survey) on the Web form. --Ballot choices and persona data captured by commercial third party vendorEveryone Counts.

Ballot is saved and emailed back

Privacy viola6ons unknown to voter

SOS claims this is just email. Eort to expand this web-based voGng applicaGon.

In use statewide with up to 25,000 voters. Violates many Colorado statutes and consGtuGon.

Eort in HB1130 to stop the expansion.

Today--

Senate narrowly passed provision to--- Dene feasible to circumstances where expedited mail is unavailable to reach clerk in 8 days. No on-line ballot marking! Owen Hill supported Lundberg/Woods amendments. SOS Williams does not support restricGve deniGon of feasible.

From here?

3rd reading Monday. Dems reacGon? Back to House 1. Can kill the bill 2. Can accept Senate amendments 3. Can go to conference commiWee to work out

dierences.

Call to ac6on

Let your House and Senate reps know

1. Be sure you know what is in 1130 2. NO internet voGng