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Sun Sep 04, 2011 at 08:17:23 AM MST
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Vince Carroll has a column about the events in Saguache. I wanted to post the entire thing word for word because it's that good, but that's not why you come to squarestate and the Post frowns on such duplication. So go here and read it.
Short history: In the 2010 election, there were two races that were extremely close, including the Clerk's race. There was also a tax measure that was decided by one single vote. All of this is exactly the sort of circumstance that cries for recounts and re-examination. Indeed, the "public" believes that we WILL have recounts and examinations in such close cases, it is part of why anyone has any faith in our democratic process. But in this case, not even the canvass board was willing to certify the election. In short there was no validation of this election by any citizen review. We had the word of the clerk alone that these results were accurate. As Carroll says:
Too many clerks seem to believe that they should be both the first and last line of defense of election integrity. No one must look over their shoulder or second-guess procedures - or at least no one outside the official club. Hence the clerks' repeated attempts to keep voted ballots under wraps and their strained explanations for why voter identity could be breached if they do not.
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Tue Nov 02, 2010 at 06:20:06 AM MST
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Go and vote. At this point I can't say much that will influence you as to who to vote for (as if I ever could) but go vote. It is one of your responsibilities as a citizen, and none of us should fail to fulfill it. 234 years ago today General Washington was on the run. His forces had been surprised at Chatterson's Hill and he was forced to retreat at night in order to avoid being decimated.
The War of Independence had been going on since before the Declaration, but now it was full blown and in earnest. The signatories to the Declaration had made their stand for an idea that was the United States and faced charges of treason if they were captured. They had pledged their lives, fortunes and scared honor to found a nation on the idea of equality (if a limited and flawed one) and they would fight for it until they won or were destroyed. They won and our nation was born. So go vote for the idea the Founders started.
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Tue Oct 26, 2010 at 14:06:02 PM MST
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It's been a few days now since we began a conversation that addresses the issue of how frustrated some number of LBGT voters are with the Democratic Party this cycle; this because they find themselves either frustrated at the lack of progress on the civil rights issues that matter to them, or because they see both the Democratic and Republican Parties as unreliable partners in the struggle to assure equal rights for all.
In an effort to practice some actual journalism, I assembled a version of an online "focus group" at The Bilerico Project ("daily adventures in LBGTQ"), with the goal of gathering some opinions on this subject in the actual words of those frustrated voters.
Part One of this story focused on "stating the problem", and today we'll take on Part Two: in this environment, with Election Day staring us in the face, what is an LBGT voter to do?
As before, there are a variety of opinions, including a very informative comment I was able to obtain from a genuine Member of Congress, Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania's 8th District, and that means until the very end you won't hear much from me, except to help "set the stage" for the comments that follow.
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Wed Oct 06, 2010 at 21:52:53 PM MST
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It is about a week before early voting begins for a bunch of us around the country, and that means this may be one of the last times I have to convince you that, frustrated progressive or not, you better get your butt to a ballot box or a mail-in envelope this November, because it really does matter.
Now I could give you a bunch of "what ifs" to make my point, or I could remind you how we spent all summer watching oil gush into the Gulf, and how that came to be...but, instead, it's "Even More Current Event Day", and we're going to visit Hungary for a extremely real-world reminder of what can go wrong when the environmental cops are considered just too much of a burden by the environmental robbers-and if today's story doesn't scare you to death, I don't know what will.
It ain't Texas, but we will surely visit a Red River Valley...and you surely won't like what you're gonna see.
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Mon Jul 19, 2010 at 05:58:31 AM MST
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 If you're registered with a political party you should be receiving your primary election ballot in the mail very soon. The commercials are going to increase and the fights of Norton v Buck and Bennet v Romanoff are going to get real scrappy. I look forward to normally uninvolved people expressing great inconvenience at the emotive reactions felt during their normally programmed commercial breaks.
Cry babies :'(
According to the Colorado Secretary of State, Democrat and Republican party registration numbers for the entire state of Colorado as of June is
Dems: 817,458
Reps: 855,667
Unaff: 765,849
And, as Eluning points out in the comments, the Libertarians have their own primary with nearly 8,000 registered Libs.
If you have any questions or need resources from your County Clerk & Recorder, you can find contact information here.
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