Voter registrations swamp county offices; errors feared - Colorado

[otohara]

Several Colorado counties face heavy backlogs in signing up a swell of new voters and are scrambling to update registration rolls before early voting starts Oct. 18.
Jefferson County, home to the largest number of voters in the state, has about 15,000 voter registration forms waiting to be processed.

Denver election workers have whittled their backlog from 20,000 down to about 6,000 forms.

Watchdogs fear the rush to input tens of thousands of names and addresses may result in inaccuracies that could affect tight races on Election Day.


http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~64~2420209,00.html

[TexasBushwhacker]

1. Well with unemployment what it is

you'd think they could HIRE some temps to process those forms. Geez Louise!

[AspenRose]

2. Palast called it

New Mexico and Colorado....to be stolen

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x887613

[Minimus]

3. backlogs in NC too

article headline:
High interest in issues, candidates pushes up voter registration in N.C.

from article:
More than 204,000 people have registered to vote in North Carolina in 2004 - increasing the overall voter rolls by 4 percent to 5.2 million, according to the State Board of Elections. Individual counties are reporting application backlogs.

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031778072005&path=%21localnews&s=1037645509099