Reply #13: I have met him.... [View All]

[GregD]

Some of you know I am webmaster for VerifiedVoting.org. In July, I traveled to Denver with Dill and we ran a 2-day workshop in a meeting room adjacent to the IACREOT conference. Our goal was to communicate with the elections officials as to our concerns.

Well, it's day #2 and we're in the midst of vendor presentations. The door bursts open and in blasts this Jim Dickson dude and 6 wheelchair activists who decided we needed a bit of civil disobedience to brighten our day...

All I can tell you is that they were screaming at us that we were delaying the delivery of these machines which "would allow the disabled community to vote in privacy, and without intimidation." The killer part was when the most vocal of the folks in wheelchairs who claimed to have been an elections supervisor insisted (and I am not exagerating here) "I don't care how they count the votes, I just want to be able to vote in privacy". Yep, that's what she said, and she said it over and over...

We ended up revising the schedule of the "elections officials panel" at the end of the day so that Dickson et al could have a chance to express their concerns.

Anyhow, we've got the whole deal on video tape - ParanoidPat, if I'm not wrong you are in the Santa Cruz area? We don't have the video transfered to CD (lack of funding makes this effort a real challenge), but if you were interested in seeing the events - and hear the discussion, I could probably arrange that for you. The tape is actually in the SC area.