RealAspen:
"NASTAR, the largest public grassroots ski race program in the world, announced a new partnership today with Aspen/Snowmass to serve as the host resort for the 2013 and 2014 Nature Valley NASTAR National Championships. Avid skiers from approximately 45 states, ranging in age from three to 90, will converge on the world-class resort to compete for national titles in various divisions of the Nature Valley NASTAR National Championships...." (Read more? Click title)
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April 3, 2012
SandBoxBlogs: RealAspen "Aspen election activist suing Colorado secretary of state over traceability of ballots"
Troy Hooper:
"The challenges mounting on Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler's desk go beyond whether to mail ballots to residents who haven't voted in a while. He has another predicament: bar codes.
Unique identifying numbers, or bar codes, that can trace citizens to how they voted appear on ballots in dozens of counties in Colorado — a revelation that is not only troublesome but possibly illegal.
Ballots are not allowed to have "distinguishing marks," according to state law.
A coalition of Colorado voters is suing Gessler (pdf) and a half dozen county clerks in a Denver federal court, contending the officials are presiding over unconstitutional elections. The litigation stems from a separate dispute over whether cast ballots should be made public so that elections can be verified by someone outside of government. When clerks argued ballots could not be seen by members of the public because it was theoretically possible to figure out how specific people voted in certain elections, the bar code problem became apparent.
"We didn't think the clerks were serious. We thought they were pulling our leg, putting up a smokescreen," said Aspen-based election activist Marilyn Marks. "We didn't think it was true, but it is."
Marks and a handful of other activists across the state soon learned that 46 counties in Colorado use Hart brand ballots that have bar codes affixed to them that are not torn off before they are tallied. Their lawsuit asks the court to prohibit the government from placing identifiers on ballots, or otherwise using mechanisms to track vote choices, both of which the suit says are already against the law.
"We're suing Gessler because he hasn't enforced the law and we think he should," Marks said.
Messages left for Gessler and his spokesman were not immediately returned.
In a letter (pdf) to election activist Al Kolwicz in Boulder last fall, the Secretary of State's Office acknowledged that ballots can be traced in many counties....." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
"The challenges mounting on Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler's desk go beyond whether to mail ballots to residents who haven't voted in a while. He has another predicament: bar codes.
Unique identifying numbers, or bar codes, that can trace citizens to how they voted appear on ballots in dozens of counties in Colorado — a revelation that is not only troublesome but possibly illegal.
Ballots are not allowed to have "distinguishing marks," according to state law.
A coalition of Colorado voters is suing Gessler (pdf) and a half dozen county clerks in a Denver federal court, contending the officials are presiding over unconstitutional elections. The litigation stems from a separate dispute over whether cast ballots should be made public so that elections can be verified by someone outside of government. When clerks argued ballots could not be seen by members of the public because it was theoretically possible to figure out how specific people voted in certain elections, the bar code problem became apparent.
"We didn't think the clerks were serious. We thought they were pulling our leg, putting up a smokescreen," said Aspen-based election activist Marilyn Marks. "We didn't think it was true, but it is."
Marks and a handful of other activists across the state soon learned that 46 counties in Colorado use Hart brand ballots that have bar codes affixed to them that are not torn off before they are tallied. Their lawsuit asks the court to prohibit the government from placing identifiers on ballots, or otherwise using mechanisms to track vote choices, both of which the suit says are already against the law.
"We're suing Gessler because he hasn't enforced the law and we think he should," Marks said.
Messages left for Gessler and his spokesman were not immediately returned.
In a letter (pdf) to election activist Al Kolwicz in Boulder last fall, the Secretary of State's Office acknowledged that ballots can be traced in many counties....." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
March 21, 2012
SandBoxBlogs: RealAspen "On the Colorado River with Roaring Fork Anglers"
Tom Boyd:
"NEW CASTLE — A blue-winged olive buzzed close to the water, rode the breeze along the bank, and perched like a trained pet on the thumb of veteran angler John Harcourt.
Harcourt watched it fly away, then called out to his son, Dustin, and his seven-year-old grandson, Drake, who were working an eddy seam just downriver.
“We might do some dry-fly fishing after all,” he said with the kind of smile that has spring fever written all over it.
The terms “dry fly” and “March fishing” aren’t often mixed together in discussions of Colorado’s rivers and streams, but along the wide-open, easily accessible stretches of the Colorado River from Glenwood Springs to Rifle, a sunny March afternoon feels like a mid-summer’s day to a fisherman, especially if he’s got a healthy dose of cabin fever...." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
"NEW CASTLE — A blue-winged olive buzzed close to the water, rode the breeze along the bank, and perched like a trained pet on the thumb of veteran angler John Harcourt.
Harcourt watched it fly away, then called out to his son, Dustin, and his seven-year-old grandson, Drake, who were working an eddy seam just downriver.
“We might do some dry-fly fishing after all,” he said with the kind of smile that has spring fever written all over it.
The terms “dry fly” and “March fishing” aren’t often mixed together in discussions of Colorado’s rivers and streams, but along the wide-open, easily accessible stretches of the Colorado River from Glenwood Springs to Rifle, a sunny March afternoon feels like a mid-summer’s day to a fisherman, especially if he’s got a healthy dose of cabin fever...." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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