(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Curing Colorado of Boebert, A Colorado State Open Thread, 11/14/2022 [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2022-11-14 Senator Michael Bennet, who defeated Joe O'Dea and kept the US Senate in Democratic hands. Some editions of the Colorado State Open Thread focus on politics — this is, of course, one of those. Others, of a different course, focus on other aspects of life in Colorado, about Colorado, and/or whatever strikes the fancy of the author (yours truly) or comment contributors to this Open Thread. The Denver Gazette has a very good web page explaining the ballot curing process here in Colorado. As of Monday morning, the race for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District is still too call to close, with incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert leading against Democratic challenger Adam Frisch by only 1,122 votes. But, as of Thursday, Mesa and Pueblo counties within CD3 have 1,166 ballots awaiting curing, and that is only two of the 27 counties in the district. ... County clerks are required to notify voters if there is a signature discrepancy with their ballot. Clerks will mail an affidavit asking the voter to confirm they signed their ballot to the address the voter is registered at. They will also reach out via email, if there is one on file. County clerks are required notify these voters no later than two days after Election Day, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. ... Voters have until 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 16 to cure their ballots. The Secretary of State’s Office has until Dec. 5 to compile all of the election results and either certify the results or order a recount. The Secretary of State’s web page explaining how to cure a ballot using a cell phone at www.coloradosos.gov/... Adam Frisch’s vote curing effort can be found at www.mobilize.us/… and you can sign up for a virtual canvassing training session where you will receive training that takes place from 3-5 PM on Tuesday to learn how to cure ballots (and perhaps more shifts are available). Every vote cured is one more for Adam and one more figurative nail in Magat Boobert’s political coffin. I don’t know whether they’ll have ways to call voters who need their ballot cured, but the web page above, from the Colorado S.O.S’s office describes the way to cure ballots by texting the state and including a picture of the ID in the text. I hope there’s a way to call voters, get them to the state website, and get them to cure the ballot — it would be faster and less intrusive than having to knock on a door. Join us as we knock doors to cure ballots in Colorado's Third Congressional District! We'll be canvassing voters who have already cast mail ballots, but those ballots were rejected by their counties. Voters can "cure" these ballots and get them counted if they take additional action to fix the problem, and that's what we'll be walking them through. We have a particular need for volunteers who are willing to drive long distances, because we have ballots to cure all over the district. We will train you virtually before sending you out on the doors! Your shift will begin with a virtual canvass training before you start knocking on doors. We'll send you a link for the training once you sign up for your shift. We did have our election end last Tuesday, though because of the thoughtful actions of people in the not-too-distant past, we have one of the best voting systems in the country, with all the registered voters being sent their ballots and then people can send them back by mail, drop them off in drop boxes located at several hundred locations around the state and, if they’re mailed back, they can be received past the voting day deadline so long as they’re postmarked by voting day. We can drop off ballots a couple of weeks prior to voting day if we want to avoid the last minute pushes by candidates and parties to contact us and remind us to vote. The Secretary of State’s office has a page — results.enr.clarityelections.com/… that is updated at least daily (sometimes more often) to reflect results as the various counties and precincts finish counting ballots in part or in whole. I will be using the results from about 2PM this afternoon for the rest of this story — which is less than an hour ago from when I’m typing this. The page reports that all 64 counties are reporting, but none are complete as of this afternoon. There isn’t a place that I can see where there is a record of how far the various counties have gone, but if you look at the last reported date for a particular county, you can make an educated guess as to which still have counting to go and which finished days ago, at least to the point of either finishing or having ballots still eligible for “curing”, or fixing any issues that might keep a particular ballot from being counted. You probably know the results from the various races. As a quick reminder, Colorado voted for Democrats to win each of the statewide governmental offices and five of the eight Congressional districts (1,2,6,7 and 8). CD3, Boobert’s district, has not yet been decided and it’s 0.34% difference between Boobert and Frisch — Frisch has said he’d accept a verdict if he loses; Boobert has not said anything about whether she’d accept that or not. I see much litigation in her future. I think I interpreted C.R.S.1 to say there’s an automatic recount if the margin is less than 0.5%, so we may indeed be headed towards a recount. The district races tended to favor the same parties that won the Congressional districts, with the exception of the new CD8, which voted for a Democrat, Yadira Caraveo, for Congress and for a Republican for CU Regent, which, if it had to be split, is a good choice. As for the state’s various ballot initiatives, the state seems to have agreed with me on most of the issues. I’d like to think I’m a trend-setter, but I’m not that much of an influencer. I know it’s unlikely, but do you have anything else going on in your lives outside of politics this past week? Any new recipes you’re going to try out for the holidays? Do you have any holiday meals with family and friends, either from the same side of the political spectrum or do you call a truce at meal time? How are your sports teams faring? I’m eagerly hoping for good news out of CO3. Until then, the floor is yours... [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/14/2136134/-Curing-Colorado-of-Boebert-A-Colorado-State-Open-Thread-11-14-2022 Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/