County clerk to comply with Colo. Sec. of State order barring soldiers from voting

[a kennedy]

Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert “Bo” Ortiz will comply with Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s order not to send ballots to soldiers out of state who are legally registered Pueblo County voters but who failed to cast ballots in 2010. The news came Friday afternoon in a carefully worded release that came after hours of deliberation.

“Pueblo County will honor Secretary Gessler’s order but this is not over,” Ortiz is quoted to say. “Pueblo County is currently weighing legal options, including taking the issue to court. The Secretary of State effectively has denied 64 active military personnel the opportunity to vote.”

Gessler unveiled a new interpretation of state election law last week, when he filed a lawsuit to stop Denver County from mailing ballots to “inactive” voters as it had done for the last five years. An inactive voter in Colorado is a voter who is legally registered but who has failed to cast a vote in the previous general election– in this case the election of 2010.

Pueblo County, like Denver, has routinely mailed ballots to all registered voters. Ortiz was committed to do the same this year and pushed back against Gessler this week. He said counsel had advised that Gessler’s interpretation of election law would force Pueblo– and all the counties of Colorado by extension– to violate the federal Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act, which requires clerks to mail ballots to all eligible voters in the military.

http://washingtonindependent.com/112864/county-clerk-to-comply-with-colo-sec-of-state-order-barring-soldiers-from-voting

More voter fraud.....

[tridim]

1. Not "voter fraud", election fraud by Republican elected officials.

[Pitr]

2. +1 - the 2010 uprising is now dead.

Thanks to a major buyer's remorse for electing dumbshit Republicans.

Gessler and Stapleton cannot and will not succeed in trying to destroy what their predecessors have set up.

What's more, the saner Republicans are quitting en-masse of their party and going Independent.

The saner Republicans recognize that their CURRENT party model is nothing of their father's or grandfather's Republican Party.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. Somebody should file misdemeanor charges against the clerk.

If the clerk does not fulfill their legal duties, they can be charged with a misdemeanor.

This happened to me once when I tried to register a common law marriage in Texas, and the clerk tore up three forms and refused to register me and my husband because I refused to change my name.

I kept asking him "Show me in the Texas Family Code where I have to change my name." Of course, he could not tell me that because it's not in there.

He committed a misdemeanor by failing to carry out the duties of his office.

[mfcorey1]

4. The secret society of rethuglicans has negated the voting rights act of 1965. We now officially are

living in hell created by the right.