Posted: November 3, 2008
Sequoia failed to deliver 18,000 absentee ballots to Colorado
Sequoia insisted to Denver County officials that it had shipped all of the absentee ballots the county ordered, but county officials recently discovered that the company failed to ship 18,000 ballots. See the Wired news story here. At least one voter did not receive his ballot, after twice requesting one, until it was too late to cast it. The man had already left town by the time the ballot arrived at his house.
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Arizona: Voter Registration and the Road Ahead
Justin Levitt
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