Colorado Secretary of State Disenfranchises Our Troops
September 30, 2011 at 6:18 PM Leave a comment
Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State, Scott Gessler, recently ordered that the clerks in both Denver and Pueblo counties (heavily Democratic districts) not send mail-in ballots to anyone who did not cast a vote in 2010 — declaring them “inactive voters.”
That said,
Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert Ortiz gave Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler until this morning to specifically and formally address another of the charged ramifications of his new interpretation of state election law. Gessler got in under the wire. Thursday evening, he sent Ortiz a letter ordering him not to send ballots to any of the county’s “inactive voters”– legally registered voters who failed to cast ballots in the previous even-year general election– including roughly 70 soldiers on the Pueblo County inactive voter rolls serving out-of-state. In Pueblo as elsewhere in the state, inactive voters are now meant to visit the clerk’s office or a polling place to retrieve ballots. With the election a month away, Gessler’s directive seems likely to effectively disenfranchise the soldiers.
Imagine you’re a soldier in Iraq, fighting for our freedom (which — hello — fundamentally includes the right to vote) and oops, you were ah, engaged in a war and golly gee, you just didn’t find the time to vote in 2010. Now — per this Republican a**hole, you can’t vote at all come November. How outrageous is that?! These are our men and women in uniform for God’s sake.
And you know why Republicans are so fixated on finding ways to make it harder for people to vote? Because their proposals and policies are so unpopular, the only way they can win is by rigging the system and keeping as many people from voting as possible. After all, the only voices they care to hear come from Wall Street and K Street.
Oh, and one last thing. Colorado state Democrats are hopping mad right? They’re jumping up and down, calling for a special session to deal with this, right? No. They seem to have Stockholm Syndrome. They are well, the only sound I hear are crickets.
Too bad we don’t have a two-party system in this country any fucking more.
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