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11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Post · 1 reply · +1 points

Just knowing THAT someone has or hasn't voted doesn't compromise the secret ballot. Secret ballot only means there's no way to know HOW someone voted.

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Post · 0 replies · +1 points

There are still poll watchers for in person elections. You know those slips you write your name on to pass to the election judge who finds you in the poll book? Well, poll watchers are allowed to look at those slips whenever they like. They compare the slips against their list of registered voters for their party in that precinct, and every few hours step out of the polling place to call in with who still hasn't voted. Those folks then get a call or a visit from a party volunteer to ask if they need a ride to the polling place.

Can't get more DURING than that.

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder County to add ... · 1 reply · +6 points

> I suspect often a college student will graduate and move out of state, and leaving their roommates to perhaps vote the ballot (with perhaps a copy of their signature on an old lease, or just given them), among myriad other ways mail balloting might be excused.

Risking a felony to get one extra vote? Makes perfect sense. I'm sure tons of students think that's totally worth it.

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder County to add ... · 2 replies · +6 points

The County Clerk is only notified of voters who either move within the state or file a change of address with the post office. Therefore, there are probably students still on the rolls after graduating, moving, and doing the typical young person thing of not bothering with forwarding. That doesn't mean anything hinky is going on. The only thing distinguishing Boulder is that we have a larger population that moves away regularly than your average city.

> I've heard someone report that they have still been receiving ballots for their husband who died a number of years ago, despite having gone to the clerk's office with a death certificate to try to get them removed from the registration list (apparently having tried a few times over the years to get them to do so).

There's something wrong with this story. They only send ballots to active voters. If you fail to return a ballot for a general election you become inactive and have to go back to voting in person the next one.

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder Junction symbo... · 1 reply · +11 points

There was supposed to, but then someone reminded the planners that you can't build a train stop on a curved section of track. This inconvenient fact seems to have been quietly swept under the rug lest it sap public support for the project. I was glad to see it called out in this article.

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Salina Cafe owner, cas... · 0 replies · +4 points

While if I lived beside a creek, I wouldn't feel comfortable without flood insurance, you should take into consideration that the building had been standing more than 125 years without needing flood insurance. The owner's decision as to risk was probably made with this in mind. She had no way of knowing that a 500 year flood would happen in her lifetime.

(And it is a creek, not a river. Normally one can step over it.)

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder police: Cyclis... · 0 replies · +4 points

This happened in a seperated bike lane. The problem is that there aren't also seperate traffic signals so it's actually more dangerous than an on street bike lane because drivers have to check both directions for bikes, and do so through landscaping.

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Women-only homeless sh... · 0 replies · +6 points

> Where is this shelter located by the way?

BOHO rotates between the participating churches and synagogue.

The idea is that few churches could coordinate opening their building every night (for instance, most places don't have enough clear space to sleep people without moving furniture out of the way, which you then have to replace the next morning for daytime users), they can commit to doing so one night a week.

12 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Contentious public-pri... · 1 reply · +2 points

They don't have to build the tracks because it's not going to be light rail: they're buying the heavy rail tracks from BNSF, which wants a fortune for them. Unfortunately it's still easier than starting from scratch.

12 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Contentious public-pri... · 0 replies · +6 points

If only we approve another transportation tax they just might make it happen this time. They swear they might.
http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci...

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