President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(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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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
50%
50%
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
70%
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
September 20, 2011 07:32 AM UTC
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Make him spend tax dollars serving his partisan hack intersts and reveal to all what he really is.
Seems Denver has a good case to at least mail ballots to folks who voted in 2008, the last presidential election.
If he is such a crack attorney, make him earn his salary. Or lose the case and be proven the hack and fool he is.
Something has gone haywire…
Feel free to delete a few (or all) of those Alva.
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First, call him out on this threat. Call it out wide & clear in more than just the DP. Folks need to know the shenanigans that PoS Gessler is trying to pull.
Second, PoS Gessler knows down in his bones how mid-term turnout is depressed vs. Presidential year. Here a slimy cheap way to score a little ding against the Dem voters.
Third, let him take Denver city/county to court and let this play out in a public venue. Then we’ll see Scottie’s fortunes turn a little sour.
Whomever is pulling his strings now will back off in a hurry when a little light is cast on this scheme. Then Scottie will be hung out all alone, not many in his office are loving his reign.
And that’s the problem. Boy Gessler is having to think for himself and he’s making a mess out of it.
The current law requires county clerks to mark people who do not show up for general elections as “inactive”. In Colorado’s voter registration software (called SCORE) there are reason codes to assign to the inactive status such as “failed to vote” and “returned mail” (the two most common ones).
For all-mail ballot elections, the statutes instruct the county clerks to mail ballots to all active voters. However it does not say to mail “only” to all active voters. If I were a county clerk, I would understand that to mean the active voters are the minimum group of people to mail ballots to. Siding on the side of voter participation I would probably also mail ballots to those “failed to vote” people. If they have moved, that ballot will be returned and then they would get marked “returned mail” preventing future ballots being mailed to them until they updated their registration.
Denver has had a tradition, since usuing the SCORE system, maybe longer, of mailing ballots to inactive voters if their reason code is “failed to vote”. I can see major arguments for doing this. 1) Voters should not be penalized for simply not caring enough to show up at an election. and 2) the “falure to vote” may not have been the fault of the voters. Every election there are post some office issues with ballots being delivered to voters.
I have no idea how other counties have treated the “failed to vote” folks, but I think that would be an interesting thing to learn.
While this will not help for the 2011 election, I think the legislature should address this issue next session. I would advise their best way to proceed is to simply do away with the requirement of marking people inactive if they fail to vote.