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Printable <br />Lifitle confusian, higher turnout with mail bailots <br />JOHN COLSpN, <br />Attachment C <br />Page 1 af 1 <br />Mail-orily etections in Garfield and Eagle counties apparently caused fitt[e confusion and may have helped raise voter <br />turnout. <br />Officials reported oniy a sma[l number Qf voters in Garfield and Eagle countie� puzzled �bout what to do and where to �o <br />in this week's mail-onCy electian praCess, a rnethod that's �aining in popularity across the state and nation. <br />"We had a few people upset," Garfield Courtty Clerk Mildred Alsdarf said. "I wauld say we didn't have more than half a <br />dqzen." <br />At�d rr�ast of thase, she said, were at the sakellite clerk's office in Rifle. <br />Aisdorf said about 250 of the 1,500 vaters who came into the derk's office either in Rifle or the main �ourthouse in <br />Gle�wood Springs were there to request repEacement batlots or because they had moved and ne�er received their ballots <br />in t�e mail. The rest were there to drop off their bal�ots instead of mailing them. <br />ln Carbondale, according [o receptionist Sharrdey Page, ti�ere were a few confused voters. But To+ivn Clerk Marcia Walter <br />said there were fewer than six. <br />5he said most of those who came in were °thinkin� it was an either-or option:" to vate by mail or �o to the pollin� place. "1 <br />told therri, 'Sorry, it's a maif batlot,"` and that they had to go to the county clerk's office in G(enwood Springs to �et a <br />replacement batlot. <br />In Eagle County, where the hallot also was mail-anly, Clerk Teak Sirr�ontpn said the result was similar co Chat in Garfield <br />Coun ty: <br />"There was some confusion," she said. <br />"�here were se�erat hundred voters who asked, 'Whar is a mait-in ballaf?"' she said. "There was a very smatl �roup of <br />vaters that wasn't aware of what was going on." <br />At Basalt's Toivn Hall, one of the places v+ih�re £a�le Coursty voters in �he Roarirr� Fork ValLey are used to �oing on <br />eleetion day, very few vqters shawed up in confusior�. <br />"f had, like, t�+vo," said Towr� Clerk Pam 5chitling. She said she sent them to Che Ea�Ee County Communrty Center in El <br />Jebe� to p€ck up replacement baltots. <br />This was 5imonton's first time r�an.aging a mail-only electian, she said. She estima�ed tF�e costs were abaut 20 percent <br />[ower than a poltin�-place electior�, <br />And, she said, "Lo�istica!(y, 1 t€�ink it's easier for the voter," whic� could be part of the r2ason both Eagle and Garfield <br />counties had better' vot�r turnau� than Pit�cin Caunty. Ea�le and Garfield turnaut was 43 percen� and 45 percent, <br />respectively. Pitkin's was 29 percent. <br />"Mail-in always gets a better turnout in odd-year elections," Pitk.in County Clerk and Recqrder Sitvia Qavis said. <br />Pitkin County's one attempt at a maif-only electian in the mid-1990s resulted in a fair number of camplaints from voters. <br />The county has since relied primarily on Election Day palling. <br />John Calson's e-m.ail address is jcolson�aspentimes.com <br />h ttp: //www. aspen tim es. com / a pps / pbes. dl l/ artide?AI D=/20051104/ N.EWS/ 111040032 �ttemp late=p rin.tart <br />Copyright 20D9 AU ai�hts Reserved <br />http:llvvw�.aspentimes.comlappslpbcs.dll/article?AID-120051104INEWS1111040032&template=p... 2/2/2009 <br />
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