A new method of voter suppression (voters, democratic, Republican, compare)

[golfgod]

The Denver Post (totally in the bag Republican BTW) is reporting this morning that a "private contractor", which was hired to print and mail the mail in ballots has failed to deliver more than 18,000 of them yet.

I have not yet read the article, but it will be very interesting to see just which party the contractor has ties to (Diebold anyone?) and what the party distribution of the non-delivered ballots is. I don't know about that county but statewide it's about 1/3 each of Ds, Rs and Unaffilitated.

Mail ins could be applied for beginning Sept 5 IIRC, and many have been in the hands of voters since about Oct. 1. It takes a while to fill the ballot out in most jurisdictions. There are quite a few, often confusing, Constitutional issues on the statewide form.

More news at it becomes available.

golfgod

[KsStorm]

Link: More Denver voters must wait to mail in - The Denver Post

[janeannwho]

Is this yet another example of how the private sector is soooooooooooooo much better at doing things than the old registrars office calling a local printer was?

[delusianne]

"The missing ballots arrived at a postal facility in Denver on Monday from Sequoia Voting Systems Inc., the California company that had failed to ship them earlier this month."

In an earlier corporate incarnation, Sequoia Voting Systems brought us the hanging-chad system in Florida!

Sequoia Voting Systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[golfgod]

I haven't seen a breakdown by registration yet. All last week they told the regristrar that "all of them had been mailed", then on Friday night they said "all but 11,000", by Monday it was "all but slightly more than 18,000.

I want to see some follow-up on this.

golfgod

[Ironclad]

Bottom line, one should go IN PERSON with ID on ELECTION DAY if they want to vote.

[paperhouse]

Originally Posted by Ironclad

Bottom line, one should go IN PERSON with ID on ELECTION DAY if they want to vote.

I tend to agree with this Constitutionally mandated proposal (except the id part). Though I do think a picture ID is a good idea. If you can't afford one, let the state provide one every 10 years free of charge.

[walidm]

Originally Posted by golfgod

I haven't seen a breakdown by registration yet. All last week they told the regristrar that "all of them had been mailed", then on Friday night they said "all but 11,000", by Monday it was "all but slightly more than 18,000.

I want to see some follow-up on this.

golfgod

This will be interesting. The Public's trust hangs in the balance it appears...

[Ironclad]

Originally Posted by paperhouse

I tend to agree with this Constitutionally mandated proposal (except the id part). Though I do think a picture ID is a good idea. If you can't afford one, let the state provide one every 10 years free of charge.

One needs an ID to cash a tax refund, welfare check or to buy liquor. That would pretty much cover everyone. I don't buy one NOT having ID of some sort.

[suzco]

Originally Posted by golfgod

The Denver Post (totally in the bag Republican BTW) is reporting this morning that a "private contractor", which was hired to print and mail the mail in ballots has failed to deliver more than 18,000 of them yet.

. . I don't know about that county but statewide it's about 1/3 each of Ds, Rs and Unaffilitated.

. . .
golfgod

Denver is overwhelmingly democratic compared to statewide averages. From the Secretay of State figures:

160,707 dems; 50,685 reps; 90,529 unaffiliated (of active voters. there are also small numbers of third party affiliated voters)