Colorado: governor calls for all-paper election

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Ritter wants ballots on paper statewide

By MIKE SACCONE
The Daily Sentinel

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Gov. Bill Ritter asked lawmakers Wednesday to require counties to conduct the 2008 election using paper ballots so that the election will be secure.

“We have a bipartisan agreement struck in the Legislature that would take us to paper ballots with precinct voting,” Ritter said.

He said voters still could cast absentee ballots through the mail, and there would be a verifiable paper trail of each ballot following the election.

Ritter said he wants an all-paper election because he fears the “specter of litigation,” citing a 2006 court decision that nearly barred counties from using electronic voting machines.

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