June 02, 2006 08:00 AM UTC

Holtzman Campaign Explains Next Steps

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• by: Colorado Pols

This explanation is from an e-mail newsletter to Marc Holtzman supporters sent out last night:

Earlier today, rumor started trickling out of the Secretary of State?s Office stating the Holtzman Campaign would be coming in below the requisite 1,500 names per Congressional District needed to place Marc on the primary ballot.

After the close of business tonight, we received official word stating the Secretary of State?s Office had validated all our needed signatures in the following CD?s: 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

However, according to the Notice of Insufficiency, we have not yet reached the threshold in CD?s 1 and 7.

Though we have not yet received the official statement listing the names and signatures that were called into question, we believe we have solid grounds to challenge the statement.

According to the notice sent to us tonight, over 4,000 names were thrown out immediately – that is to say, without even looking at the voter rolls. There are a couple of reasons this might occur: (1) the notary was insufficient or (2) the ?circulator? of the petition was not correctly registered as a Republican with the Colorado Secretary of State.

We believe, as of now, the later has occurred.

Though we had thousands of signatures collected by volunteers, later in the process, we also had professional petitioners assisting us in certain congressional districts.

That firm has assured us all of their petitioners were registered republican voters, however, if those folks were newly registered, that voter information would not yet be registered with our Secretary of State.

We are in the process of validating the voter information of the professional gatherers (through local Clerk and Recorder offices), and believe our challenge will be found successful in the next few days.?