The deadline for Coffman to work with groups his office with willfully or incompetently trained to do voter registration has ended without a peep out of Coffman's office. See you tomorrow out front of Coffman's office.
Media Advisory, Oct. 15, 2008
Contact: Jody Berger 303-748-9657
DENVER-Nonprofit organizations will gather Thursday to call on Secretary of State Mike Coffman to reinstate voters whose voter registration applications were deemed incomplete. Voters who may not get to vote and leaders of voter registration drives will speak.
As many as 6,500 Coloradoans may be disenfranchised because they filled out the application as directed on the application.
The Secretary of State's staff provided training to organizations holding voter registration drives. Those trainings did not explain that Colorado State ID's were the preferred form of identification or that voters who did not have one needed to check a box on the application before providing their Social Security number.
Thousands of Colorado citizens registered using their Social Security number as identification only to find out now that they may not be able to vote.
Where: Colorado Secretary of State's Office
1700 Broadway, Denver, Colorado
When: 12 noon, Thursday, October 16, 2008
Who: 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women
Community Voters Project
Latina Initiative
Mi Familia Vota Civic Participation Campaign
New Era Colorado
Service Employees International Union
Do we really want Colorado do the be the Ohio or Florida of 2008? You can take bring a sandwich to work tomorrow and join us at noon can't you? For democracy? We always talk about how important voter registration is, register thousands of new people who've never voted before. How many again are going to come to the polls and find they can't vote. I feel sick thinking someone I registered to vote won't be able to or will have to vote on a "provisional ballot" when I followed the specific instructions given out by Coffman's office and those instructions were wrong.
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