The recommendation for a paper ballot mandate reflects the overwhelming evidence across the country that electronic voting machines are unreliable and insecure for the counting and recording of votes. Voter Action urges that the Colorado legislature adopt this recommendation with an amendment requiring that this mandate become effective for the 2010 elections.

An electronic voting machine in Adams County repeatedly failed to accept a vote for a Democratic state Senate candidate — instead registering the vote for her Republican opponent — at an early voting site last week and has been removed from service, the Aurora Sentinel reports Wednesday.

Denver election officials were breathing a little easier Saturday after they determined that 11,000 mail-in ballots they feared were missing were actually never sent by a vendor.
The U.S. Postal Service said Friday afternoon that its Denver mail processing facility received 10,364 ballots on Oct. 16 and delivered them within a couple days.
But the California printing company hired by Denver Elections said it delivered 21,450 ballots to the postal facility on that date.