On 7/17/2014 10:01 AM, Democrat Party Chairman Dan Gould wrote:

Since this editorial [ http://tinyurl.com/pngkwm8 ] cites my name
refers to statements I have made, I want to make clear what I said, in
effect*, in the final meeting of the Boulder County Primary Election
Canvass Board on July 7, 2014:

I believe that the County Clerk and her staff provided the Canvass
Board with the data it needed to make the specific determinations on
number of votes cast and counted, as required by the governing state
statute. Therefore the Abstract of Votes Cast should have been
certified both in 2012 and 2014. 

For at least the past two election cycles, some members of the Canvass
Board have acted in a manner and asked questions that appear to stem
from their belief that a County Canvass Board should have a much
broader oversight role on conduct of all aspects of an election.

This broader role is clearly outside the scope of current Canvass
Board statute.  If some members of the Canvass Board want to
legitimize this broader role, that can only be done by a change in the
election law.  They should, as individuals, seek that change in state
law and not continue to misuse the current Canvass Board process and
setting to try to realize their goal. 

* I was speaking extemporaneously; not reading from a prepared text.

Dan Gould, Chair Boulder County Democratic Party