Boulder County Clerk Misuses County Funds

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The Boulder County Clerk, Hillary Hall, is misusing public funds to promote her personal preference for mail ballot elections.

The law does not require her to promote voting by mail.

The law does not authorize her to promote voting by mail

In this day of identity theft, it is a reckless act for government to send out bulk mail containing personal voter information. 

It is unconscionable for government to encourage trusting voters to vote by mail when it is well understood that voting by mail is insecure.

The people of Colorado, including Boulder County, soundly defeated the 2002 effort supported by the Colorado County Clerks to get people to vote by mail. 

Boulder County government has unnecessarily spent the taxpayer's money to send out this mailing.  These funds should be used for critical priority needs not to promote Hillary Hall's personal preference for vote by mail.

Ms. Hall was elected to represent the people of Boulder County.  Boulder County rejected the mail ballot scheme, and expect her to protect every vote.

Amendment 28

Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning the

conduct of elections using mail-in ballots, and, in connection therewith,

replacing existing statutory provisions relating to mail ballot elections with

provisions governing "automatic absentee ballot elections"; requiring that, after

January 1, 2005, any election held on the same day as any primary, general,

congressional vacancy, special legislative, partisan officer recall, or other

November coordinated election, be conducted as an automatic absentee ballot

election; permitting other elections and elections held before January 1, 2005 to

be conducted as automatic absentee ballot elections; requiring an election

official who conducts an automatic absentee ballot election to submit a plan for

the election to be approved by the secretary of state; specifying requirements for

the delivery and return of ballots in an automatic absentee ballot election,

including provisions for ballot drop-off sites, polling booth locations, and the

issuance and return of replacement ballots; specifying requirements for ballot

qualification in an automatic absentee ballot election, including the verification

of voters' signatures and the counting of such ballots; specifying that

interference with the delivery of a ballot in an automatic absentee ballot election

to the designated election official is an election offense; and increasing penalties

for specified election offenses?