July 01, 2010 06:29 PM UTC

Supreme Court will not hear Appeal in Coken case

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• by: Dan Willis

Yesterday, the Colorado Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal from the Secretary of State’s office regarding putting Jennifer Coken on the ballot. That issue is now over and she will be in the primary.  

As for the long tern affect on the SoS’s office, I am glad a court has finally had an opportunity to rule on some SoS Rules/Policies I have been questioning for a couple of cycles now.

So from now on:

1. When a person signs more that one candidate petition for the same race, the first time they sign counts and the second doesn’t, regardless when the petition is submitted for verification.

2. If more that one person lives at the address with the same name as the person who signs a petition (eg. a father and son), the name must be accepted as valid (this is a change to SoS policy),

3. This one is not mandatory, but would clear up the issue: The petition affadavit signed by the circulator should ask for the address where the circulator is registered, not their residence address. It currently asks for residential address, but if a person has moved and not updated their voter registration yet, they are still eligible to circulate petitions (this applies to candidate petitions only, circulators don’t even have to be registered to circulate issue petitions)