North Suburban Republican Forum

November, 2012
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Our next meeting is from 9:00-10:30 am on Saturday, November 10 th with the doors open at 8:30am. Youll be able to hear a recap of the elections results followed by Rediscovering Free Enterprise: Freedoms Imperative from Bill Marshall . We meet at the Legacy Ridge Clubhouse (10515 Stuart Street) in Westminster. Admission is only $3 per person and a continental breakfast is included.

NSRF upcoming calendar in 2012: December 8 Bob Beauprez hosts Colorado Senate and House members talking about the bills they will introduce in 2013. Election of NSRF Board members. Christmas breakfast burritos January 12, 2013 Jon Caldara, radio talk show host and president of the Independence Institute, pontificates about 2012, talks politics, and answers your questions February 9, 2013 Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler talks about voter fraud, election results, and whatever is on his mind before he answers your questions March 9 -- ???

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Designed for your general audience, this presentation provides unique insight into the relationship between political and economic freedom, and why President Obama's economic policies are destroying our freedom. The presentation introduces a Defect in our practice of free enterprise which has created the opening for those who believe in socialism to spread their word, while in the meantime a group of cognoscenti use this Defect to destroy our freedom, increase wealth disparity in America and waste our environment to the extent of 20% of GDP ($2.6 trillion per year). The presentation introduces solutions for the problem and a new third form of economic policy called EM & M (pronounced M & M)-Enterprise Measurement and Motivation that helps to restore American competitiveness and freedom. When the audience leaves the presentation, each person will have a better understanding of the source of their freedom and the type of economic system that gives them freedom. They will also understand (1) how to judge the economic policies and regulations of policrats and (2) how to eliminate the Defect.
Background: Bill Marshall is the retired Treasurer of Nalco Chemical Company-a Fortune 250 industrial company. His books, Money Ain't Free and Rich Shareowner, Poor Shareowner, were selected as "among the Year's top investment books" by Stock trader's Almanac. Bill was a Navy Lieutenant, Naval Flight Officer and Mission Commander. He is a Distinguished Eagle Scout.

Rich Shareowner, Poor Shareowner! Common Sense for Investors and Managers! Book Description
Publication Date: April 16, 2002
In the tranquil setting of a Colorado dude ranch, New York investment banker Wendy Stevens and her fellow guests learn from each other and the tantalizingly Socratic Sam McAllen what creates value for Shareowners...Over early morning coffee, on a cattle drive, and around high country campfires, they learn the three factors that cause stock prices to change, they learn who controls each of these factors, and they learn how both Managers and Shareowners "cause value to happen"... The week taught Wendy more about how value was created than her 16 years as an investment banker. In fact, she felt that if the ideas were used by a simple majority of companies, there would be a national surge in productivity rivaling the PC, Internet, and Quality Process combined. At the end of the week, Wendy drove away from the ranch refreshed and energized with new ideas to help her become a Richer Shareowner. But, she also left with new friends and a new perspective on the important things in life!

Money Ain't Free: The True Cause of the Crisis in Corporate Responsibility Book Description
Publication Date: December 7, 2003
As their financial security, dreams and peace of mind became victims of the crisis in corporate responsibility, friends of investment banker, Wendy Stevens, sought her help in understanding what was happening and who to trust. Try as she might, she was at a loss to find a believable cause or solution to the crisis. In frustration she telephoned her friend, retired financial officer, Sam McAllen. Over dinner in Chicago's suburbs, Sam shared insights into the real cause of the continuing corporate crisis. He helped Wendy identify the vested interests that were abusing Shareowners' money, and he helped her to recognize why the populist ideas of "greedy people doing bad things" weren't the real cause of the crisis. Sam then suggested the grand deception at the heart of the corporate crisis Wendy was astonished It was so obvious. Over breakfast the next morning, they explored a national solution to the corporate crisis as well as a "quick fix" that Wendy's friends could personally use until the national solution was implemented. When they parted, Wendy knew she had answers that would help her friends regain their confidence in stocks and perhaps some of their lost financial security.

Table of Contents:
November calendar List of Republican North Metro Candidates Election watchdogs keep wary eye on paperless e-voting systems If you havent checked out our web site, these are the latest articles that have been posted Colorado vote totals by county as of 10/30/2012 Colorado GOP election night party details How to help and donate for Hurricane Sandy How can I help politically this year? 2012 Election Calendar Adams County Vote Center Locations Service Centers and Drop-Off Locations Elected officials NSRF Board of Directors NSRF $20 yearly membership application

Heres the list of Republican North Metro Candidates

Adams County Commissioner District 1: Adams County Commissioner District 2: Gary Mikes, Donnia Howell 3

RTD Commissioner District K: Jan Pawlowski or David Elliott HD-29: Robert Ramirez HD-30: Mike Sheely HD-31: Beth Martinez Humenik HD-32: Paul Reimer HD-33: Dave Pigott HD-34: Jodina Widhalm HD-35: Brian Vande Krol HD-56 Kevin Priola HD-63: Lori Saine SD-21 SD-23 SD-25: CU Regent: CU Regent CD7 CD-2: CD-6: CD-7: President: Fran Bigelow Vicki Marble John Sampson Brian Davidson Mary Dambman Kevin Lundberg Mike Coffman Joe Coors Mitt Romney

Election watchdogs keep wary eye on paperless e-voting systems

Voting systems that don't support a paper trail are hard to audit, Verified Voting says
Jaikumar Vijayan

October 30, 2012

As the clock winds down to what could turn out to be an extremely close presidential race, some election watchdogs are keeping a wary eye on paperless electronic voting machines that are scheduled to be used in several key states and jurisdictions around the country. Paperless systems are basically Direct Recording Electronic systems (DREs) in which voters cast their ballots in a completely electronic fashion by using push buttons or touchscreens. Some DREs allow voters to print out a paper copy of their ballots to verify that their vote was cast as intended. Election watchdog groups such as Verified Voting and Common Cause and academicians have insisted that such a voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) is vital to ensuring the integrity of the vote in jurisdictions that use DREs. But a total of 16 states will, to varying extents, use DREs that do not support a paper trail as their standard polling place equipment, according to Verified Voting. Of these, six states -- New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana -- will be completely paperless. All ballots that are cast in these states will be on DREs that support no paper trail whatsoever. The remaining states, which include Texas, Colorado, Florida, Virginia and Pennsylvania, will use a mix of paper ballots and DRE voting systems that are paperless. But even here, the states of Virginia, Pennsylvania and Tennessee will be almost completely reliant on paperless electronic voting systems. In Tennessee for instance, all but two counties will use paperless DREs, while in Virginia all but seven of 134 countries will use paperless systems. Meanwhile, in a handful of states like Florida only voters with physical disabilities will use paperless DREs. The extensive use of these systems in the upcoming elections is troubling, said Pamela Smith, the president of Verified Voting. Ideally, all jurisdictions around the country should be using voter-marked paper ballots and optical scanners for counting the votes, Smith said. But if a DRE is being used, it should support a paper trail at the very minimum, she said. "There is a strong chance that a DRE system is working the way it should," she said. "The problem is there is no way to confirm that easily," she said. Because there is no independent paper record of a vote, manual post election audits of paperless voting systems are impossible, she said. So if a paperless DRE system were to malfunction, record or count votes incorrectly, it would be very hard to verify the accuracy of the results, she said. Election day mishaps involving DREs are not all that rare, according to a report earlier this year by Verified Voting. In 2011, during the Democratic primary elections in New Jersey's Cumberland County, a paperless DRE system attributed votes to the wrong candidates and ended up declaring the actual losers as winners of the election. A new election was held later after the New Jersey attorney general acknowledged that the system had switched votes because it had been programmed incorrectly, the report said. In 2004, a touchscreen DRE in North Carolina's Carteret County lost 4,500 votes due to a memory problem. Because there were no paper records, "it was impossible to determine how those lost votes should have been counted," the Verified Voting reported. Since then the state has moved to paper ballots, optical scanners and VVPAT-equipped DRE systems. During primaries elections in May 2011, several voters in Pennsylvania's Venango County complained that their votes had been flipped from one party to another by the paperless DRE systems that were being used by the county. Similar complaints have been reported elsewhere. In some of the cases, election officials blamed the problem on screen calibration errors and programming errors. "You can't do a post-election vote tabulation audit in such cases because there is no independent record of the votes," Smith said. "You are checking the system against itself. It is sort of a circular argument," she said. Even a few incorrectly counted or missing votes could make all the difference in a tight election especially if it happens in a key swing state, she said.

Thad Hall, an associate professor of political science at the University of Utah, said paperless DRE systems offer a degree of auditability, but not much. "If you vote on a paperless DRE system, there are places within the machine that record the data," Hall said. "But if I don't trust the machine, I'm not going to trust the backup electronic records," said Hall, who was one of the authors of a recent MIT/Caltech report on e-voting technologies. "Sure they are auditable. The problem is that people are not going to believe the audit record," because it is not independent of the system. Several states, including New Jersey and Maryland, have passed legislation mandating a move to paper ballots, but budget constraints have kept them on paperless DRE systems, Hall and Smith said. But William Kelleher, CEO of The Internet Voting Research and Education Fund, said concerns about paperless DRE systems are overblown. "Just because the DREs have a "black box" in which votes are stored and tallied, doesn't mean the machines shouldn't be trusted," Kelleher said in an email. "We trust jet planes, which are at least just as much a black box," he said. Machines may make rare counting errors if, for example, they are in need of recalibration, he said. "But humans make far more counting errors than the computers in the DREs. Perfection is not a standard that pragmatic people expect. Our election officials have determined that when the costs and benefits are balanced, paperless DREs present an acceptable risk."

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233058/Election_watchdogs_keep_wary_eye_on_paperless_e_voting _systems?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Jaikumar Vijayan covers data security and privacy issues, financial services security and e-voting for Computerworld. Follow Jaikumar on Twitter at @jaivijayan or subscribe to Jaikumar's RSS feed mail address is jvijayan@computerworld.com.
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Yes, today is Tuesday, one week before the election. Although I had promised turnout results every other day, we're cranking it up a notch. That's right, turnout results every day! As you'll see in the attached report, Colorado is flirting with almost 1 million votes cast. For some perspective, that's more than half the total votes cast in 2010 (1,821,028 total votes) and 40% of the total in 2008 (2,422,236 total votes). For those keeping track, Custer County leads the state with 39% of its voters having already cast their ballots (48% of active voters). Keep up the great work! Look for the latest turnout results tomorrow as Colorado breaks a million votes cast. Contact the Secretary of State's Office Colorado Department of State 1700 Broadway Denver, CO 80290 The Secretary of State's Office is located at the Northeast corner of 17th and Broadway Office Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Elections & Voting

Suite 200 303-894-2200 ext. 6307 303-869-4861 (FAX) elections@sos.state.co.us

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We hope this email finds you well. We're praying for, and thinking of, all those affected by Hurricane Sandy. Today, Mitt Romney held a storm relief event in Kettering, Ohio, and Paul Ryan helped at Victory offices in La Crosse and Hudson, Wisconsin. Many of you have contacted the campaign and want to know what you can do to contribute. Please visit http://www.redcross.org/, donate by texting REDCROSS to 90999, or contact your local Red Cross to find out how you can best help. Your generosity and efforts can make a great difference. Thanks, Matt Rhoades Campaign Manager Romney for President, Inc. FWD: Tonight, Ann and I are keeping the people in Hurricane Sandy's path in our thoughts and prayers. I hope that if you can, you'll reach out to your neighbors who may need help getting ready for the storm -- especially your elderly neighbors. And if you can give of your resources or time, please consider supporting your local Red Cross organization -- visit www.redcross.org to get involved. For safety's sake, as you and your family prepare for the storm, please be sure to bring any yard signs inside. In high winds they can be dangerous, and cause damage to homes and property. I'm never prouder of America than when I see how we pull together in a crisis. There's nothing that we can't handle when we stand together. Stay safe and God Bless, Mitt Romney Paid for by Romney for President, Inc. www.MittRomney.com

How can I help politically this year?

There are two main areas where you can be invaluable: Victory Office and Individual Local Campaigns. 1 -- Victory will do three things: Polling for President (Romney), Congressional (Coors, Coffman, Gardner), CU Regent at Large (Davidson) and Regent for CD7 (Mary Dambman.) Victory will poll voters re these positions by phone and by walking. They will ALSO undertake voter registration efforts, which is also very important! The whole Victory agenda is aimed at the final phase of the election: GOTV (Get Out the Vote.) Beginning after the ballot mail-drop in October, their volunteers will be calling to urge Repub-friendly voters to get their ballots in. The Victory office is located on the first floor in the strip-mall on the SW corner of 104th and York, Suite 103. This year, it is at the west end of the building (instead of the east end as in years past.) 2 -- Individual Local Campaigns need all the help they can get: State Senate (John Sampson in 25, Fran Bigelow in 21.) House Districts (Mike Sheely in 30, Beth Humenik in 31, Paul Reimer in 32, Jodina Widhalm in 34, Brian Vande Krol in 35, and Kevin Priola in 56.) County Commissioners (Gary Mikes and Donnia Howell, which are both county-wide votes.) Volunteers can walk with candidates, do lit drops, help with mailing, do phoning for GOTV (we will aslo have the daily info in our our own data base), etc. There are many roles within a given campaign, and the more people each has, the more powerful that campaign is. There is nothing to say that someone can't sign up for a few hours at Victory once a week AND for a role in an individual candidate's campaign. In fact, we are going to need plenty of people to do just that. WE NEED YOUR COMMITMENT for as much as you can possibly do ASAP.

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To sign up for the Victory office, contact Jeannie Reeser jgreeser@q.com H-303-452-1838 C-720-232-6443. To sign up for an individual campaign, contact that campaign: Gary Mikes and Donnia Howell: Campaign manager, Josh Raines josh@ares-inc.org 1-408-315-5569. HD-30 Mike Sheely: mike@sbar7stables.com 303-644-3230 720-530-4563 HD-31 Beth Humenik: bethhumenik@gmail.com 720-872-2181 303-907-6995 HD-32 Paul "Boots" Reimer: cbpr842@q.com 303-288-4828 HD-33 Dave Piggott: Sheryl@ares-inc.org 720-306-1683 HD-34 Jodina Widhalm: blounche@msn.com H-303-255-7609 C-303-668-5538 HD-35 Brian Vande Krol: Campaign volunteer coord: Patty Sue Femrite psfemrite@comcast.net H-303-466-1235 C-720-936-6857 HD-56 Kevin Priola: kpriola@gmail.com SD-21 Fran Bigelow hatsoff42@comcast.net 303-289-4999 SD-25 John Sampson sampsonforstatesenate@gmail.com 303-332-1020 303-622-4077

2012 Election Calendar

2-November (Friday) Last day to apply for a mail-in ballot for the General Election if picked up at the county clerk's office. (Friday preceding the election) 2-November (Friday) Last day for early voting at the early voting polling places for the General Election. (Close of business the Friday before the election) 6-November (Tuesday) General Election for Republicans & Unaffiliated voters (Polls open 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.) 7-November (Wednesday) General Election for Democrats and other political parties

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