“Sleep! I feel the need of it. Yet my axe is restless in my hand.”
–From J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers
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but in a knife fight you’d certainly want her on your side!
but I certainly love her quote!
RE Katrina refugees:
http://www.snopes.com/politics…
in order to prop up Jeb.
closing arguments in DeLay trial set for today. Stay tuned….
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11…
Why ever did they imagine they had it to themselves?
Brought to you by the folks who think they should be educating your children:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11…
(looking ahead: “Christmas was a Fucking Disaster Until Santa Broke the Elf Union”)
fabricated nonsense, it’s hard to keep up.
The final official numbers have been posted on their website. The total vote increased by 17,269 votes since the election night numbers. This would be made up of provisional ballots, military ballots (they have until 8 days after the election to get here), and mail ballots that were unsigned and the voters went to the office to sign them (they also have 8 days). But the bulk would be provisionals.
The break between D and R votes was only slightly more D than the previously counted ballots, so nowhere close to changing any outcomes.
From the SoS. I don’t know why I find the numbers so interesting, but I can’t wait.
I am curious how many provisionals other counties had. Denver had a huge number of people who voted in the wrong precincts. One reason was many of the voting locations changed since 2008.
The largest number of provisionals were from people who moved but did not update their voter registration before the Oct. 4th cut-off. I could see this as an argument for same-day registration which wuold eliminate the 30-day prior rule and allow this these things to be corrected more smoothly on election day without necessarily using provisional ballots.
I may not be saying that right. I voted early at the Wash Park Rec Center, instead of the school in HD-1 that handles my precinct. If I understand correctly, I could not have done it that way on election day. Right? And why not?
If you have a moment… 🙂
But the generic answer is you could have voted at the precinct voting location for your precinct on election day. That would be considered the standard way of voting.
However, if you had moved and not updated you voter registration with the new address, you would not appear in the poll book for your precinct. Then you would have to fill out a provisional ballot, which would be counted after the staff at the DED office had a chance to update your address in the system (necessary for the right precinct to get credit for your vote).
Same-day registration would be for those folks who were not registered in this county prior to the election. A process would be established to allow them to register on the spot and then vote. This is problematic in a precinct polling place because there are no computers there to update the record. But is a very workable solution at the service centers which do have the computers available.
The current process is a person moving into the county but did not register there would have to fill out a provisional ballot and then only his/her federal/statewide votes would be counted.
Same-day registration is a tool that would only work effectively if precinct polling places were done away with. Otherwise the number of provisional ballots would swell expotentially and be a huige burden on the county clerks.
I am told there will be a bill in the legislature this year to make Colorado an all-mail ballot state, but I don’t know the specifics. If this were to happen, same-day registration would be doable because everything would be handled by the service centers that have the computers and would not need to issue provisionals
Hope that made sense
I first read the trilogy one lazy summer working on a slow moving pea combine. Even at its 2 mph (if that!) speed, I’d come up out of my reading reverie and find myself going the wrong way in the field. In subsequent years I read the trilogy two more times!
I used to read on the back of a tractor, pulling chisels across Phillips County. But running a combine is a pretty complicated thing and I never tried to blend rreading with running one of those.
I spent many hours staring at the south end of a northbound horse. But that was covering politics, not plowing ground.;-)
There’s an outstanding close-up photo of the alleged robber in the online version of the daily newspaper in Summit County — but it’s one of those papers we’re not supposed to link to, quote, etc.
The guy kinda gives the impression that he came up to the Summit for a day of powder, then decided to rob a bank on his way out of town.
All of Denver should take a look at his photo — just a hunch on my part that he hails from the Front Range.
Hmmmm.
And I promise, if he pays me with ink stained bills, I’ll turn them in. Somehow.