How very disappointing this is. All that money wasted each time we sent out thousands of ballots that will never be returned.
Patrick Malone:
"Statewide in 2009, just 4 percent of the ballots mailed to inactive voters were returned and accepted. An equal percentage were returned undeliverable. Gessler noted that Denver County had a 10 percent rejection rate on ballots cast by inactive voters during that cycle.
“When signatures don’t match, that’s an indication of real problems going on,” Gessler said.
Pueblo County experienced a far lower rejection rate among the ballots cast by inactive voters. Less than 4 percent of the ballots were not accepted (15 out of 390).
And Pueblo County inactive voters participated at a higher rate in the 2011 election (about 11 percent) than any other large county in the state, with a relatively low rejection rate Gessler acknowledged.
He hinted that the secretary of state’s office could take on guidance on how inactive voters should be handled.
“I think most people share the same values — they want accurate voter lists, they want to reduce costs,” Gessler said. “We should work towards trying to find some kind of consensus, another way to do this, rather than shoving it through the Legislature.”...." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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