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November 01, 2004
Colorado | Like Nailing Jell-O To A Tree

In Colorado ballots vary from county to county. From the Ft. Collins Coloradoan:

While many counties will use some form of electronic equipment this November, seven small counties will be hand-counting votes.

“We don’t have machines. We can’t afford them,” Crowley County Clerk Lucile Nichols said.

In all, there are four types of balloting that will be in use in Colorado on Tuesday: Touch screens, optical scanners, paper ballots and the lone punch-card system.

Roughly 350,000 people are registered to vote in El Paso County, where Clerk Bob Balink ordered 582,655 of various types of ballots. Why so many?

“How do you guess how someone’s going to vote — traditional, provisional or absentee?” Balink said.

Clerks begin ordering ballots from printers in early September. Different styles are required for each precinct, in some cases. One precinct may be part of a special tax district or have a school district issue that the next precinct does not. El Paso County has 77 ballot styles alone. Adams County has about 90.

“Planning an election is like nailing Jell-O to a tree,” Routt County Clerk Kay Weinland said.



Posted by Dave Bowdish at November 1, 2004 09:29 PM | TrackBack
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