SandBox Comments: Denver Post/Breaking News "Saguache County clerk recalled by voters following bungled 2010 election"

'SandBox Nanny's' commentary on this story goes out to Marilyn Marks. 

Re:  All of your elections activism statewide, including your support for the Saguache County issue:   Well done.

""Saguache County Clerk and Recorder Melinda Myers, under fire for a 2010 election that was bungled so badly it prompted a grand jury investigation, was recalled by voters yesterday.

Secretary of State Scott Gessler filed a lawsuit against Myers to get permission to conduct a public review of ballots from the election. That review — though disputed by some residents for not being complete — found the final results of the 2010 election had been accurate.

The grand jury investigation, conducted by the Colorado Attorney General's office, found no criminal wrongdoing.

Residents, however, began gathering signatures for a recall election.

The election — conducted by the El Paso County clerk's office — used paper ballots counted by hand, rather than using the vote tabulation machine that had been at the center of many of the 2010 problems.

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