All-paper-voting bill unveiled
-Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News, Wed-2/27/08 "It makes (county clerks') jobs a lot harder,
and I do not want Colorado to be a laughingstock.
Whose laughing at paper ballots and fair elections?
I for one, think we should cry until we get:
TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS
- Hand Counted,
Paper Ballots!!!-
Lawmakers present paper-ballot billLa Plata County clerk worries state could be ‘laughingstock’
February 27, 2008
By Joe Hanel | Herald Denver Bureau
DENVER - Most Colorado voters will use paper ballots this fall, if high-ranking legislators get their way.
Lawmakers announced a bill Tuesday requiring a mostly paper- ballot election, to the dismay of many county clerks who had wanted either an all-mail ballot of greater use of electronic voting machines.
"We're not relying on computers as much as we were in the past," said Sen. Ken Gordon, D-Denver. "It's low-tech, but we think low-tech means there's less likelihood there will be problems."
The bill will not require any changes in La Plata County, said County Clerk Linda Daley.
But larger counties will have to re-do their whole systems, Daley said, and it's getting too late in the year for such major changes.
"It makes (county clerks') jobs a lot harder, and I do not want Colorado to be a laughingstock. It could turn out that way," Daley said.
more at:
http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/08/news080227_1.htmPaper ballots for Colorado voting?
Lawmakers favor paper,
though scanners still in limbo Colleen Slevin
The Associated Press
Aspen, CO Colorado
February 27, 2008
DENVER — Legislative leaders said Tuesday they're moving ahead with a proposal to conduct this year's elections mainly by paper ballot even though most counties still don't know whether they'll be able to use their optical scanners to count the ballots.
Colorado is one of five states considering a return to all-paper elections after having problems changing to electronic systems, according to a report released last week by Electionline, a project of The Pew Center on the States.
The other states are Florida, New Mexico, Ohio, and California, according to the study.
The bill assumes that most of the scanners will be recertified by the secretary of state but still would set aside $3.5 million to reimburse counties who want to buy more scanners so they can count ballots more quickly, Senate Majority Leader Ken Gordon, D-Denver, said. The price tag could rise if some of the scanners aren't approved for use in this year's primary and general election.
Plans for Colorado's elections were thrown into confusion in December when Secretary of State Mike Coffman decertified most of the state's electronic voting machines because of security and accuracy concerns.
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