El Paso Co. found a way to cut undeliverable ballots and clean voter rolls—Colorado leaders looked away
By Bob Cooper, COIFFE Director | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice
A $50,000 statewide solution was offered—and ignored—while Colorado processed more than 323,000 undeliverable ballots in a single year, costing over a million.
This story should get your attention and maybe even make you angry if you care about election integrity issues—or simply about wasting taxpayer dollars in every county in Colorado. Get this: El Paso County has been implementing a common-sense voter roll maintenance process, a true “Gold Standard” process, to reduce election costs and clean up the “dirty,” bloated voter rolls.
There is potential for this improved process to save thousands of dollars in election costs every year for every county in Colorado.
To help the state implement this, El...



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