Over 6,000 Voters Not Registered Due to Unchecked Box (CO)
Source: KRDO
Updated: Oct 13, 2008 03:41 PM
DENVER - With only a week left before the start of early voting, about 6,000 people who registered to vote aren't eligible to cast regular ballots yet ...
Read more: http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=9171600
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Oct 13, 2008 5:59 pm US/Mountain
Box Not Checked On Thousands Of Registration Forms
By Colleen Slevin, Associated Press Writer
DENVER (AP) ― ... At issue is the part of the voter registration form that requires voters to either enter a driver's license or state identification number, or at least the first four digits of their Social Security numbers if they don't have state IDs. The form also asks voters to check a box if they don't have a state ID.
Election watchdog groups say the box check, required by state law, is an overly strict interpretation of federal law that they haven't seen in other states. On Monday, they called on Secretary of State Mike Coffman to automatically register people who have provided a Social Security number but didn't check the box. They said Coffman also could take other steps, including letting people complete their forms at early voting locations. They estimate that about 10,000 voters in the state could be affected.
"With such a close election, this many votes will have an impact," said Jenny Flanagan, executive director of Colorado Common Cause, one of eight state and local groups that sent a letter to Coffman asking for changes ...
Sarah Brannon of the Fair Elections Legal Network .... said voters who have already provided a Social Security number to verify identity shouldn't be kept from voting with a regular ballot because of a formality. Brannon said that registration forms of other states she's reviewed tell voters that if they don't have state IDs, they can provide their Social Security numbers. Those forms don't ask for an affirmation that those voters don't have state IDs ...
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Updated: Oct 13, 2008 03:41 PM
DENVER - With only a week left before the start of early voting, about 6,000 people who registered to vote aren't eligible to cast regular ballots yet ...
Read more: http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=9171600
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Oct 13, 2008 5:59 pm US/Mountain
Box Not Checked On Thousands Of Registration Forms
By Colleen Slevin, Associated Press Writer
DENVER (AP) ― ... At issue is the part of the voter registration form that requires voters to either enter a driver's license or state identification number, or at least the first four digits of their Social Security numbers if they don't have state IDs. The form also asks voters to check a box if they don't have a state ID.
Election watchdog groups say the box check, required by state law, is an overly strict interpretation of federal law that they haven't seen in other states. On Monday, they called on Secretary of State Mike Coffman to automatically register people who have provided a Social Security number but didn't check the box. They said Coffman also could take other steps, including letting people complete their forms at early voting locations. They estimate that about 10,000 voters in the state could be affected.
"With such a close election, this many votes will have an impact," said Jenny Flanagan, executive director of Colorado Common Cause, one of eight state and local groups that sent a letter to Coffman asking for changes ...
Sarah Brannon of the Fair Elections Legal Network .... said voters who have already provided a Social Security number to verify identity shouldn't be kept from voting with a regular ballot because of a formality. Brannon said that registration forms of other states she's reviewed tell voters that if they don't have state IDs, they can provide their Social Security numbers. Those forms don't ask for an affirmation that those voters don't have state IDs ...
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