Clerks back status quo on voting machines
By Myung Oak Kim, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published January 6, 2009 at 12:05 a.m.
The Colorado County Clerks Association wants the legislature to pass measures that would keep the status quo regarding voting machine certification and to govern certain election-related matters from the secretary of state's office instead of through state law.
Those requests are part of a position statement issued Monday at the clerks' winter conference in Pueblo, said outgoing Senate Majority Leader Ken Gordon, D-Denver. Gordon is the head of the new state Election Reform Commission, which met Monday at the conference and listened to testimony from about 10 county clerks.
The main message from clerks was that they don't have the money to buy new voting machines and need legislation that will allow them to keep their current fleet of e-voting and counting machines, Gordon said.
They also support a measure that would allow county clerks to conduct all-mail elections.
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jbowen43 writes:
The counties of Colorado are often the most poorly managed political subdivisions in the state. Usually they are run at all levels by real amateurs who get their jobs through cronyism and nepotism.