Good News Guilty until proven innocent? Not in my Colorado.
HB 11- 1252 – Yesterday – 4.18/2011 - Postponed Indefinitely by vote of 3-2 (PI) by Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs – Voting NO: Rollie Heath, Chair; Bob Bacon, Vice-Chair; Betty Boyd; Voting Yes: Bill Cadman and Kevin Grantham – Please call the members who voted it down to thank them.
Rollie Heath, District 18, Boulder, 303-866-4872 (Chair)
Betty Boyd, District 21, Lakewood, 303-866-4857 (Vice Chair)
Bob Bacon, District 14, Fort Collins, 303-866-4841
Colorado does not have a problem with voter fraud. But Secretary of State Scott Gessler, endorsed by Tom Tancredo, has come up with a system that will create a list of voters suspected to be non-citizens (HB11-1252). Those on the list will not be allowed to vote until they provide documents to him to prove they are citizens.
Every eligible
voter should have the right to vote and only eligible voters should cast
ballots. Up in committee this week HB11- 1252 – takes the right to vote away from
eligible voters rather than identifying ineligible voters. Requiring
proof of citizenship will create barriers for eligible voters,
particularly for many low-income citizens, seniors, young people,
minorities, and those with disabilities. Why would we endanger eligible
voters’ rights for a problem that doesn’t exist? In Georgia, 10,000
people were wrongfully identified as non-citizens by a similar law.
