Denver November 2004 Election
Voter fraud is on the minds of both Donetta Davidson and Ken Salazar as we head into early voting in 4 days, according to the Rocky Mountain News [October 14, 2004, "Partisan fingers point on voter-fraud issue"]. From the article, "Salazar's office announced in August that an Aurora man, John MaCarthy, 27, was accused of forging 48 voter-registration applications in April. MaCarthy faces four felony counts of fraud and a misdemeanor count of procuring false registration. Another case of potential voter fraud that Davidson handed over to the attorney general two weeks ago is still being investigated, said Don Quick, a chief deputy attorney general. It takes a great deal of time to investigate, check handwriting samples and get the necessary documents during the county clerks' busiest time, he said. A large part of the registration problems has stemmed from gatherers being paid, Quick said. That's not illegal - the U.S. Supreme Court in 1998 threw out a Colorado law that barred the practice of paid circulators, he said. But when a young person is offered financial incentives to get a larger number of registrations, there's bound to be problems, Quick said. He believes county clerks are catching those problems, and the registration rolls will be kept mostly clean."
Here's an opinion piece in favor of Amendment 37 from the Denver Post [October 14, 2004, "Xcel Energy's stand on Amendment 37 ironic
"]. The Amendment would require utilities operating in the state to increase the amount of energy from renewable resources to 10%.
There is now a lawsuit against Amendment 36, according to the Rocky Mountain News [October 14, 2004, "Amendment 36 lawsuit"]. From the article, "An unaffiliated voter filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging part of a statewide ballot measure that would change the way Colorado's electoral votes are allocated. Jason Napolitano, 36, of Fort Collins, contends that making the electoral vote change effective for this election is unfair to minor party voters. Amendment 36 would change Colorado's constitution to split the state's nine electoral votes for president and vice president proportionally, based on the popular vote, instead of the current winner-take-all system. If the amendment passes Nov. 2, Colorado's electoral system would be the first of its kind in the nation. Napolitano contends that some people who might support a minor party candidate such as Ralph Nader would vote instead for John Kerry or George Bush because they don't think a minor party candidate can get any of the state's electoral votes."
Metro area mayors are lining up to urge the passing of Referendum 4A according to the Rocky Mountain News [October 14, 2004, "All 31 metro-area mayors back FasTracks"].
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