The Voting News Daily: ES&S to pay Cuyahoga $200K, Military Voters Bill stalled in Colorado
A maker of ballot scanners will pay Cuyahoga County more than $200,000 because its equipment could not scan larger-sized ballots. The settlement approved Tuesday between Election Systems and Software Inc. and the county Board of Elections covers the county’s costs of printing extra pages of smaller ballots in 2009 and last year, along with extra staff costs to test the scanners and for repairs to ballot boxes the county bought from ES&S. “We got what we thought we could get,” Assistant County Prosecutor Dave Lambert told the elections board Tuesday. Elections Board Director Jane Platten said the issues were all caught before election day and no votes were affected. The county has avoided the problem by using smaller ballots, she said. Platten also said the company has made software changes to handle larger ballots which should be approved for use by the fall. Read More
CO: Overseas military voter bill stalled in Colorado House – The Denver Post
A Democratic overseas military voter bill is in limbo in the House, but the reason it’s stalled depends on who’s talking. Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, said when she asked about her bill she was told that Republicans, who took control of the House in November after six years in the minority, are frustrated with Democrats for “locking down” and voting against their proposals. But Rep. Jim Kerr, R-Littleton, who chairs the committee hearing House Bill 1219, said the secretary of state says the bill is flawed and unnecessary, and Levy knows that. Read More
CO: Gessler’s proposal for voters draws fire – The Longmont Times-Call
Secretary of State Scott Gessler and critics of his push for citizenship verification in Colorado’s voter-registration rolls agree on one thing: No one who’s not a U.S. citizen should be casting ballots in Colorado elections. They disagree, however, over Gessler’s latest proposal for a state law he says he needs to identify people who may not be citizens and block them from voting until they can prove that they are. Earlier this month, Gessler issued a report in which he and his staff said that as many as 11,805 of Colorado’s nearly 3.3 million registered voters aren’t eligible to vote. Those 11,805 individuals got or renewed Colorado’s driver’s licenses since 2006 using documents the state requires of noncitizens seeking licenses. Full Article