Preschool Tax Expected to Pass

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1. With no organized opposition, he spent $1.7 million to pass this thing by 1700 votes.

   There’s more than a little tarnish on the teflon.

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2. And the fact that the margin of victory for 1A has increased, rather than decreasing, as election day polling place and election day absentee votes have been added to the mix show that it is unlikely that suppressed voter turnout in Denver influenced the 1A results.

   The high end vote suppression figure for Denver of 18,000 (comparing actual turnout to expected turnout based on historical figures), fortunately looks like it isn’t big enough to have influenced any race’s outcome this year. 

   The closest race that Denver’s troubles might have influenced was the Colorado Secretary of State’s race, where more 18,000 more voters would have provided Ken Gordon about 7,500 more net votes, not enough to make a difference, given the 30,000+ point gap between Gordon and Coffman.

   It looks like Stephen Ludwig, who was favored by Denver, will win by a few thousand votes, so his race also won’t likely have been influenced by vote suppression in Denver.  But, if he loses, he is correct that it will be the Denver Election Commission’s fault.

   Colorado citizens dodged a bullet this year.

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3. The assumption is that this was a mismanaged but honest election. I don’t buy it.  Seniors usually vote against tax increases of any kind and that is one
   segment of the population whose votes were depressed, I would wager, by the long lines. 18,000 votes maybe gone and  IA only passes by less than 2000.  What a crock.  Peter Blake was right.  They kept counting until IA passed. Stinks to high heaven.  The water is boiling and the frogs never even squeeked….now they are croaked.

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   1. Hick controlled the election commission to get the vote he wanted on the justice center, but claims he couldn’t do anything this year when numerous people begged him to fix the problem.  Everyone from Gallagher, to DeGette To Ritter told him there were problems but he claimed he couldn’t do anything.

      There was always a sense from people who work at the commission that something was wrong.  I had people tell me that they honestly believed there was  a desire by management to have a low-turnout.

      Nopw that the election is a disaster, Hick is doing everything he can to preserve the status quo – another blue ribbon task force designed to give him the result he wants.

      Meanwhile, city council dithers about what to do.

      Well everyone knows what to do – elect a clerk and recorder. But council will wring their hands and pretend to worry about meaningless policy discussions and end up doing nothing.

      What a joke.

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4. Sure, a win by any other name is still a win. But, considering–I just looked at the DEC finall tally–1A passed by a margin of 1.22%. Not really an outstanding performance by the Hickster, given a budget of $1.2Million to get the boondoggle passed (no organized opposition, by the way). If my math is right, and, if memory serves, automatic recounts are required if the margin of win is less that 5%. Also, suggesting that the disenfranchisement of an estimated 18,000 voters would not have made a difference in this particular race is an argument that probably suffers from a false premise or two.

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   1. I guess there will be no recount. If C.R.S. 1-10.5-102 and 104 is still applicable:

      “A recount of any election contest shall be held if the difference between the highest number of votes cast in that election contest and the next highest number of votes cast in that election is less than or equal to one-half of one percent of the hightest vote cast in that election contest…”

      So, Hick, if my math is right you snuck by with a (per recount language) .22% hedge. What a helluva victory!

      I know, facetiousness is lame…especially on this site.

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