Re: Followup - posting results at precincts ?

[Peter or Alison Richards <aprichards@xxxxxxxx>]

Date:  Monday, 8 Nov. 2004

Group:

Who is following up on this issue of posting results are each precinct ?

Has the Boulder County media picked up this question ?

As I read the 'law' below, it seems pretty clear cut - you must post the
results from each precinct at each precinct.

Bye,  Peter Richards


On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 12:23:04 -0700 "Some Guy" <someguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> Well with more time today I found this in the CRS.
> 
> 1-7-602. Judges to post returns.
> Statute text
> At any election at a polling place where voting is by paper ballot, 
> voting
> machine, or electronic or electromechanical voting system, the 
> election
> judges shall make an abstract of the count of votes, which abstract 
> shall
> contain the names of the offices, names of the candidates, ballot 
> titles,
> and submission clauses of all initiated, referred, or other ballot 
> issues
> voted upon and the number of votes counted for or against each 
> candidate or
> ballot issue. The abstract shall be posted in a conspicuous place 
> that can
> be seen from the outside of the polling place immediately upon 
> completion of
> the counting. The abstract may be removed at any time after 
> forty-eight
> hours following the election. Suitable blanks for the abstract 
> required by
> this section shall be prepared, printed, and furnished to all 
> election
> judges at the same time and in the same manner as other election 
> supplies.
> 
> However in regards to the way in which things were done in the past 
> in BC I
> found this.
> 
> 1-7-507. Electronic vote-counting - procedure.
> (8) Precincts using punch card electronic voting systems shall not 
> be
> required to post the abstract of the count of votes at the precinct 
> after
> the closing of the polls.
> Editor's note: This version of subsection (8) is effective until 
> January 1,
> 2006.
> 
> Statute text
> (8) (Deleted by amendment and repealed, L. 2004, pp. 1359, 1361, 
> §§21, 31,
> effective January 1, 2006.)
> 
> It was amended in HAVA, because by 06 punch cards will be illegal.
> 
> Thus, in Boulder County the results of the elections should now be 
> posted in
> all precincts for a period of 48 hours. Now, because the clerk's 
> office has
> finished the tally and is now working on the provisionals.
> 
> I wonder if the law will be followed.
> 
>  Guy
> 
> 
> 
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