Posted: October 31, 2008
Thousands of CO Absentees Could Have ID Problems
The Denver Post reports that Colorado election officials are warning that approximately 35,000 first-time mail-in registrants who have requested absentee ballots were not matched in the state's voter registration database and therefore need to send in a photocopy of ID with their mail-in ballots. However, there seems to be confusion amongst voters as to this requirement, and many of them may not be sending in the appropriate ID. Administrators have indicated they will treat these ballots as provisional ballots.
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Commentary
Silence of the Lambs
Dale A. Oesterle
With the election of 2012 now well over and past the second inauguration of the incumbent President, the historical analysis of the events has begun and will last as long as written human history lasts. An interesting tidbit may already be lost to the majesty of the moment.
The voters of three very different states, Alaska, New Hampshire, and Ohio, all had an opportunity to call state constitutional conventions. In each state the voters turned the opportunity down by very similar votes, 68%, 64% and 68% respectively against.
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