Council voted unanimously to put online and electronic petitioning on the ballot, as well as some other things. 

They will be voting on it a third time September 4th. Longtime Councilman Steve Pomerance and I will be there to answer any last questions, but it's mostly a formality.

Starting in September we'll need letters to the editor and other promotion to get Boulder voters to approve it in November.

The easy thing we can do now is to get more people to sign the petition so we have a bigger email list when we need help. Again, it's easier to use the shortcut to this petition: tinyurl.com/Boulderpet, short for Boulder petition. 

Assuming it passes, Council will almost certainly appoint another more technical working group to decide between online and electronic petitions and work out security details, Etc.

Then Council will implement the final system by a simple ordinance that won't require a vote of the people.

Only then will government BY the people come into the 21st century, finally!

And then we need to move it to the state level. Please ask your state representatives to support this. 

Thanks to the people and organizations who spoke to Council last night:

Marty Walter, math prof

Adam Swetlik, Council candidate, speaking for Plan Boulder

James Duncan, math teacher

Geof Cahoon, entrepreneur 

Josh Maynard, entrepreneur who told Council if they don't implement online petitioning he'll do it by ballot initiative!

Lynn Segal, gadfly

Carolyn Bninski, speaking for Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center

Marie Adams, speaking for Our Revolution Boulder

Katie Malzbender, speaking for Boulder County Democratic Party

Jesse Kumin, speaking for Best Democracy

Harry Hempy, Green candidate for governor, 2014

And me: EvanRavitz.com 

Steve Pomerance, longtime council member and Mark McIntyre, 2017 Council candidate, spoke for the City's Campaign Finance and Elections Working Group that I'm also on. 

Ciao for now,
Evan