Colorado Election Day 2009: Deadline for mail-in ballots arrives
November 03, 2009 17:43 PM
DENVER - Election Day 2009 only involves mail ballots. Colorado voters have until 7 p.m. Tuesday to get their mail ballots counted. It's too late to mail them, so ballots must be dropped off at the county clerk and recorder's office, or a designated drop off site.
"Your voted mail-in ballot has to be in the possession of your county clerk by 7 p.m. Postmark does not count," Denver Clerk and Recorder Spokesman Alton Dillard said. "You can not stick it in the mail on Election Day and expect it to be counted. So you need to check with your respective counties to see what's going to be the best way to get those ballots back. "
At about this time last year, voters cast their ballots to determine the next President of the United States. This year, the issues before Colorado voters are not in the national spotlight. However, there are important issues voters must decide.
Some issues are more controversial than others. For example, in Denver there is Initiative 300, which would allow an officer to impound your vehicle if you are caught driving without your license, even if you simply forgot it at home.
In Breckenridge, voters must decide Initiative 2F, which would allow adults to legally possess one once or less of marijuana. Denver voters approved a similar measure in 2005, but state law still makes marijuana possession illegal, so officers can still make arrests.
And in Aurora, voters have an opportunity to restore funding to libraries that are currently slated for cutbacks in Aurora's 2010 proposed budget.
Karen Long, Adams County Clerk and Recorder, hopes voters will fill out their mail-in ballots and get them dropped off by 7 p.m. Tuesday. She says the issues voters have before them will impact their daily lives.
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