Colorado: governor calls for all-paper election
The Daily Sentinel reports: 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.
The governor said Secretary of State Mike Coffman’s decision in December to decertify most of the electronic voting equipment used in Colorado made him doubt the reliability of the machines. -- Ritter wants ballots on paper statewide