This file: 20121120_Complaint_JA.txt

On November 20th, James August of Longmont sent the Canvass Board
the email you see further below.

NOTES:
(1) Originally these Citizen Complaints were sent to the Boulder
    County Clerk. Sending them to the Canvass Board at this time
    invokes Colorado Secretary of State Rule 41 which says in part:

      41.12 Written Complaints. The designated election official must
            provide the canvass board with any written complaint
            submitted by a registered elector about a voting device.
    41.12.1 If the complaint is resolved, the designated election
            official must provide the details of the resolution.
    41.12.2 If the complaint is pending resolution when the board
            meets to conduct the canvass, the designated election
            official must provide a proposal for how the issue will
            be resolved.

(2) The three attachments Mr. August references are all available on
    this site for both reading and download. Their file names are:
            20121025_Election_Complaint_JA.pdf
            20121104_Complaint_JA.pdf
            20121120_Sig_Veri_Rej_Rates.pdf

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Canvas Board Members:

Based on my observations, it appears to me that about 2.5% or about 3,143 of
the Mail-In-Ballots (MIB) should have been rejected in the Signature
Verification phase that were not rejected.  See my attached notes as the third
attached document.

The first two attached documents are complaints I filed with the Boulder County
clerk at two different times.  The basis for these complaints were the repeated
malfunctions of the Bell and Howell system used in the scanning of the
signatures which also included the signature verification process. The only
response from the Clerk was that she was satisfied with the B&H system
performance.

I contend that both the malfunctions of the B&H system and the procedures used
in signature verification could not have been accurate when considering the
requirements stated in Election Rule 29.2.

Thank You for your consideration.

James August
303-776-4514
1605 Denison Circle
Longmont,  Colorado 80503
jim@jfaugust.us

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