Helen Lucero’s family still receives her mail, despite her passing away over a year ago. Junk mail, newsletters, probably even a few bills. But something a little more striking showed up the other day — a voter ID card.
Democrat Pueblo Clerk and Recorder Bo Ortiz has been sending out yellow “voter ID cards” to registered voters in Pueblo County in advance of the recall election of Senator Angela Giron. Voters can appear at a polling location and vote with it as identification, with no need to show any form of photo ID. The yellow card is all you need.
Actually, you don’t even need the yellow card. Thanks to an elections bill rammed through as a late bill by Democrats last session in a party-line vote — HB1303 — you can show up on election day without a photo ID, register to vote and cast your vote with a utility bill. Or at least election officials hope it’s your vote.
If the deceased are getting “voter ID cards” it’s safe to say the system has some major flaws. And since someone could take the late Mrs. Lucero’s voter ID card and cast a ballot, without any further proof that they are, in fact, Mrs. Lucero, we can’t really know who exactly is voting.
That’s election integrity in Colorado.
Polls open today.
59 precincts in Phily registered only Obama votes no matter who you voted for.Not a single Romney vote.. Yeah right , fraud is rare…
Wow you are clueless… 2012 was nothing but fraud.. Numerous democrat strong counties had voter turnouts over 100 % .. How was that possible…
Well of course they notified the clerk…with death certificate in hand, BEFORE there was even going to be a recall! You are deluded if you think voter fraud is rare! The LO-FO (LOw-inFO voter) is a dangerous breed! They never investigate, never form their own opinions based on verified facts, but will blindly follow the party line spewing misinformation like vomit! And, you know, it turns out the GOP was right…according to Bo (Pueblo County Clerk and Recorder) 1400 people voted this weekend! Citizens in Pueblo, who couldn't sign the petitions because they feared receiving sanctions (a la Chicago mob techniques) from the Democratic party machine with possible loss of jobs, are now able to vote yes for the recall. Although with the serious and factual allegations that the touch screen machines can be easily manipulated to record the votes in any way they are programed to (i.e. to turn all yes votes for the recall to all no votes) it has made our local voting process into a travesty usually seen only in third world countries with a dictator at the helm! Oh, wait…
I do not believe it is rare! So many ways to be crooked. The other day I found a yellow voter card in WRONG mail box so took it and put in correct mail box. Someone found several of those yellow voting cards in trash at PO I guess people that had PO box just threw them away considering them 'trash" I do that with my mail BEFORE I bring it in my house. I suspect there are those cards floating around places they should not be and there will be no one to verify that the card carrier is actually the one presented since we do not need to show picture ID! and I was told we do not even need those cards but just tell them who I am and they look me up on list and then I can vote-no picture ID to prove me!
Election fraud is incredibly rare. Did the woman's family notify the clerk that the woman is deceased and to stop mailing to her? Who would think to do that? No one, so of course they'll keep mailing to her. Goodness, this political shit about this election is getting old.
But, with Dems, No problem, No worries, just Vote D and everything is OK
You will not vote R because someone wrote an article about Voter Id card? Me thinks you never voted R, but guzzle evry drop of Kool-Aid you see.
I think it is more efficient to just use a computer to vote the dead. Since Dems run everything, fraud is the best way to be re-elected. 160% voting for 0 proves it works.
Maybe you should get your fact's straight .
Bullshit article like this are the reason I will never vote republican again.
Ellen, can you spoint to some statute where "speaking false information on voting is a crime" ? I see no evidence of anyone doing that, but possibly you are. I am aware of no such statute.
And there is a 24 hour public notice requirement for the test under the Sunshine Laws. The law requires the test to be done in public with public and press notice. The "Testing Board" has to meet the Sunshine Laws, –that would require 24 hours notice. Some innocent Republican Testing board member who likely had not been trained on the machine technology likely did not know his/her obligations under the laws not to participate until the preconditions had been met.
The point of the law of course is to prevent partisan workers from improperly programming voting machines and tabulation equipment behind closed doors.
The point of the law, of course, is to protect all voters from having partisan workers improperly configure machines behind closed doors.
Spreaking false information on voting is a crime in Colorado. If Becky Mizel had bothered to go to the test (for which there is no 24 hour requirement) she would have good information – instead they sent out a release saying that there was weekend voting. And by the way, a Republican judge in Pueblo oversaw the test and was fine with it. Stop throwing stupid temper tantrums
****PASS THIS ON*****.
Here is the latest information that we have on voting. Please urge everybody you know to get out and vote. This process is proof that every vote counts! Share this information with everybody you can.
Early voting begins today at from 9am – 6pm at the Pueblo Elections Division at 720 N Main. It will start again on Monday, September 2 and continue through Wednesday, September 4.
Regular voting will start on Thursday, September 5th and run every day through Tuesday, September 10th, including the weekend. Locations will be open from 9am – 6pm all days except September 10th. Times for September 10th are 7am – 7pm. You can vote at any of the following polling locations.
El Pueblo Museum.
301 N. Union Ave.
Pueblo County Courthouse.
215 W 10th St.
State Fair Events Center.
1001 Beulah Ave.
Pueblo West Library.
298 S. Joe Martinez Blvd.
Southern Colorado Gaming Center.
3215 Lake Ave.
La Quinta Inn.
4801 N. Elizabeth
City Park Pavilion.
800 Goodnight Ave.
Housing and Human Services.
2631 E. 4th St.
Pueblo West Fire Station #3.
729 E. Gold Dr.
Belmont Church of the Nazarene.
1702 Bonforte Blvd.
Election Office
720 N. Main St. Suite 200
Because according to Ortiz the yellow cards are a state issued ID.
The GOP is informing the community of what the County Clerk has rammed through short notice.
Ellen how is it illegal? Early voting started today thanks to Gilbert Ortiz Pueblo County clerk. He pushed for these yellow cards as a proof of id.
I still get my mom's mail but I don't vote for her because I don't want to go to jail. Grow up this is not an issue – just among the trolls. By the way GOP in Pueblo telling people they can vote this weekend and that is false and illegal
And if you vote with this it's a felony. Why haven't they told the clerk rather than do this? Seems like they're the ones with an issue
Glad to see the Democrats working to turn out one of their traditional bases!