President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%↑
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd
(D) Adam Frisch
50%
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
52%↑
48%↓
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
October 21, 2011 07:28 PM UTC
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Something is going on with Soapblox. My promotion tag is on this but it’s not promoted.
This is a good opportunity to explain a common issue–with regular user accounts, in most cases a post is taken off the homepage if edited by that author after it’s promoted. We’re not sure if that’s a bug or a “feature” to protect us from exploitation, but everybody posting (or promoting) a diary should be aware of this.
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Can’t wait to hear why Gessler is still so convinced, in the presence of so much evidence to the contrary and none in support, that protecting us from voter fraud due to sending ballots to voters who miss an election is such a dire necessity it over-rides what should be the goal; doing all we can to encourage maximum voter participation. He probably won’t care to comment but we can probably count on the Borg to leap to his defense. But my …ummmm…. wild guess (why do such wild ideas come to mind?) is that maximum legit voter participation is the last thing the Borg wants.
I used to work in an elections office in Ohio.
Many states had a mechanism to prevent mail ballots to people who miss a general election, or perhaps only a presidential one. It was a mechanism to make sure people were not registered in more than one county at a time.
Since HAVA required statewide voter data bases, most states got rid of these provisions with their legislation to comply with HAVA provisions.
It appears to be an overdue oversight in Colorado. Hopefully the recent exploitation of this oversight by SoB Gessler, will illustrate to the legislature the need to change it.
Mail ballots in most states were a rarity until recently. Mail-in elections just didn’t happen, and absentee ballots were something you applied for if you needed one.
and nifty ways to suppress the vote. It’s happening everywhere.
A new South Carolina voter registration act is currently under review by the Department of Justice to see whether the requirement of a photo ID in order to vote is a violation of the Voting Rights Act.
Voters most affected? African Americans. Surprise, surprise.
without cars or computers to get through several layers of bureaucracy, many involving large expenditures for a senior on a tiny income, in order to exercise the right to vote. What on earth is the fuss about? It should be snap.
What the boyles et.al. crowd did was to create significant doubt as to what constitutes a legitimate birth certificate….some people may be so confused that they will simply not attempt to secure a birth certificate if they think the one that they have doesn’t meet talk show criteria.
Some people may be afraid that they will be deported, even if they were born in the US What this all does is scare people away…just afraid to pursue their legitimate rights….
This is why the democrats/president’s failure to mount a defense to the “full faith and credit” clause of the constitution may come back to haunt them in 2012.
I am certainly not opposed to mailing out ballots to “inactive” voters, but it should apply to all 64 counties. Allowing county clerks to decide whether, or not, they will do it does not make for an even playing field for any candidate or ballot issue.
Secretary of State Scott Gessler was right to challenge the the matter in court. The judge should have ordered all 64 county clerks to mail out ballots to “inactive” voters.
This recent episode of only nine counties choosing to do it looks really bad. Hopefully, the state legislature will remedy this inconsistency next year.
After all, it works on the principle of localized control, which most Republicans think is the ideal method of government.
And having the judge order all 64 counties to distribute mail-in ballots to inactive voters is not within the intent of the law. If he had done so, he would be an activist judge making law and not a jurist adjudicating the law.
But by all means let’s work together and get the legislature to fix this inane standard next year and deliver mail-in ballots to all voters that have deliverable addresses. To do anything else is to perpetuate an unequal standard in voting rights.
f these people are too lethargic to care in the first place, I’m not sure we are better off with them participating. Most likely they are in the bottom 50% that pay no taxes and would only vote to extend their welfare benefits further crippling the system.
Better for them just to stay home in front of the TV.