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Latest developments in Colorado voting issues

By Myung Oak Kim, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Published October 29, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

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Here are the latest developments in state voting issues:

* Mail ballots: Thousands of mail ballots were delivered to Denver voters Tuesday, with more expected to reach homes today.

The vendor for Denver Elections failed to print and ship more than 18,000 mail ballots two weeks ago. The mistake was discovered during the weekend, and those ballots were delivered to the Denver mail processing facility Monday.

Election officials are urging voters to return their mail ballots immediately, and the Postal Service is asking voters to mail ballots by Friday. After that, drop off your ballot at election offices.

To check the status of your mail ballot or to check your voter registration, go to govotecolorado.com, call 303-894-2200 or contact your county clerk's office.

* Early voting: Election officials are expecting a last-minute rush at early-voting sites Thursday and Friday. Early voting hours and locations vary by county, so contact your county clerk's office for more information. Early voting ends Friday.

* Voter removals: State Attorney General John Suthers, a Republican, says a judge should deny a request to reinstate thousands of voters whose names were removed from state records.

Groups including Colorado Common Cause filed a lawsuit last week against Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman, saying the state illegally removed names from the voter list within 90 days of a federal general election and omitted names of people who tried to register with addresses that post offices showed as "undeliverable."

In court documents filed Tuesday, Suthers said names were removed properly because voters had moved or were registered twice. He said no eligible voter would be denied the right to vote.

The case will be heard today in federal court.

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  • October 29, 2008

    9:05 a.m.

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    jacka writes:

    Stop the political corruption. YES on 47, 49, 54

    Firefighters and Corporate Bosses say it will silence them.

    What these Amendments do is hold their lobbyists accountable.

  • October 29, 2008

    9:53 a.m.

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    Ezana writes:

    This a wedge initiative meant to attack firefighters, teachers, police, any state contract worker who enjoys the benefits of having a union. If a union has raised your paycheck or improved the conditions where you work do not vote for this! If you have any respect for your teachers, police or firefighters do not vote for this! The authors of this bill refuse to disclose who is funding it and their motives are more than suspect!

  • October 29, 2008

    10:30 a.m.

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    FCZ writes:

    The greater threat to our nation’s security comes not from Dubai and its pro-Western government, but from Venezuela, where software engineers with links to the leftist, anti-American regime of Hugo Chávez are programming electronic voting machines

    Consider the lack of confidence Venezuelans have in their voting system. Anti-Chávez groups have such little faith in Smartmatic’s machines that they refuse to run candidates in elections anymore as reports surface of fraud and irregularities from Chávez’s 2004 victory in a recall referendum.

    Smartmatic International is owned by a Netherlands corporation, which is in turn owned by a Curacao corporation, which is in turn held by a number of Curacao trusts controlled by proxy holders who represent unnamed investors, almost certainly among them Venezuelans Mugica and Anzola and possibly others.

    Why Smartmatic has chosen yet again to abuse the corporate form apparently to conceal the nationality and identity of its true owners is a question that should worry anyone who votes using one of its machines.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/arti...

  • October 29, 2008

    10:34 a.m.

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    FCZ writes:

    Sequoia Voting Systems' problems haven't been limited to Palm Beach County.

    In Indian River County's primary, election officials didn't realize for two days that more than 10,000 extra votes had been cast, possibly because of an incomplete test of that county's vote transmitting system.

    In Washington, D.C., an Elections and Ethics Investigation Special Committee report blasted Sequoia for trying to blame election workers for more phantom votes.

    The report said "the evidence appears to indicate that there was a problem both in equipment the server and in the software."

    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/loca...