Both sides are gearing up for the battle over Referendum C according to the Denver Post [June 9, 2005, "Debate launches campaign on budget reform"]. From the article, "Two of the state's top lawmakers took the budget debate outside the Capitol on Wednesday - launching the campaign to persuade voters to accept or reject a plan to let the state keep an extra $3.1 billion in taxpayer money. House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, D-Denver, portrayed a state without enough money to invest in its future. House Minority Leader Joe Stengel, R-Littleton, predicted a government run amok with uncontrolled spending."
The Denver Post reports that Governor Owens has signed into law two measures dealing with election reforms [June 9, 2005, "Election reforms on books"]. From the article, "The reforms come largely in response to concerns about Secretary of State Donetta Davidson's handling of the 2004 election. Davidson waited until nearly half of the state's 16,000 election judges had been trained last fall before issuing a manual designed to ensure that they all followed the same rules. Under the new laws Owens ratified Monday, the secretary of state must formalize the standards used to train election officials. To boost voter confidence in elections, the reforms also require voter-verified paper ballots by 2010, as well as random audits to compare electronic and paper results after each election. The measures also let absentee voters cast emergency or 'provisional' ballots if they have not voted through the mail and allow Coloradans who cast provisional ballots in the wrong precincts to have their votes counted in all statewide and federal races. Finally, under the new rules, absentee voters who have not received their ballots by mail may request they be sent by fax."
Category: Denver November 2005 Election
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