RE: CO SoS to reject Provisional Ballots? WELL DUH!

["Pete Klammer" <pklammer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you're talking about provisional ballots voted at the wrong polling
place, 

	WELL DUH!

It's just like a real ballot in a real election, folks; in fact, it IS are
REAL BALLOT in a REAL ELECTION, and you have to go to your proper polling
location, where they should have the proper ballot style for you.

I am disappointed by this pathetic rumormongering.

--
Pete Klammer, P.E. / ACM(1970), IEEE(SA,P1583), ICCP(CCP), NSPE(PE)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Rudolph [mailto:reindeer@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:38 AM
> To: CVV
> Subject: RE: CO SoS to reject Provisional Ballots?
> 
> As an election judge in the general election, 
> I will be instructing voters NOT to use provisional ballots, 
> as Davidson has said that she will not count some ballots 
> that are provisional, and that their vote for Senate will
> not be counted in any case for provisional ballots.
> Unbelievable, but true, apparently.
> 
> I will be strongly encouraging voters to vote at their designated
> polling place, and do everything in my power to help them
> understand the problem, and help them in such a way so as to 
> ensure that their vote is properly counted.
> I will have a map of Boulder handy.
> 
> -Christian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 09:42, Robert Mcgrath quoted the NY Times, 
> who wrote:
> 
> > In Colorado, Secretary of State Donetta Davidson, also a 
> Republican, has 
> > issued a bizarre ruling of her own on this issue. She will 
> allow provisional 
> > ballots cast at the wrong polling places to count for only 
> the presidential 
> > race. The Senate race in Colorado, among the closest in the 
> nation, could 
> > determine control of the Senate, and there is no reason all valid 
> > provisional ballots should not count in this race or for 
> statewide ballot 
> > propositions. Colorado Common Cause is challenging Ms. 
> Davidson's rule, but 
> > she should not need a court to tell her to count the votes.
> > 
> > Democrats say these rulings are all attempts to disqualify 
> thousands of 
> > Democratic votes. Whatever the motivation, they threaten to 
> disenfranchise 
> > voters. They have no place in our democracy.
> 
> 
>