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Everyone with knowledge of the situation said that the Denver Election Commission was incapable of holding an election so soon after the November debacle.
But Denver City Council insisted on the snap vote. Councilmember Rosemary Rodriguez in particular put a lot of stock in assurances from Sequoia Voting Systems that the election would go without a hitch, despite Sequoia’s troubled track record.
In the letter received Jan. 22 by Secretary of State Mike Coffman, Post Office representative Dean J. Granholm faulted the election commission and Sequoia for several problems.
Granholm stated: “For the record, Sequoia is a low cost, low quality, out of state election mail vendor. Our locally documented cases over the last two years show that every mailing prepared by Sequoia had mail design, sortation or preparation issues, regardless of the amount of prework and information the Postal Service provided them.”
Old news, yet Denver still does business with Sequoia.
Perhaps the most worrisome statement in the letter:
“Friday, January 12, 2007, Denver City and County presented a drop shipment of 310,000 Absentee Ballot envelopes at the Denver General Mail Facility….”
310,000 ballots?! Previously, the election commission said that 287,000 ballots had been mailed. Yet there were only around 274,000 active registered voters in Denver in November 2006.
Why did the election commission mail 36,000 additional ballots? Who are these extra voters?
Jan Tyler, former Denver Election Commissioner, said yesterday that the special election should be halted. She cited the questionable voter list and the lack of an accurate, reliable system for verifying voter signatures on ballot envelopes.
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