Election integrity, Colorado style: Helen Lucero’s family still receives her mail, despite her passing away over a year ago. Junk mail, newsletters, probably even a few bills. But something a little more striking showed up the other day — a voter ID card. Actually, you don’t even need the yellow card. Thanks to an elections bill rammed through as a late bill by Democrats last session in a party-line vote — HB1303 — you can show up on election day without a photo ID, register to vote and cast your vote with a utility bill.
Democrat Pueblo Clerk and Recorder Bo Ortiz has been sending out yellow “voter ID cards” to registered voters in Pueblo County in advance of the recall election of Senator Angela Giron. Voters can appear at a polling location and vote with it as identification, with no need to show any form of photo ID. The yellow card is all you need.
Without a photo ID requirement, what’s to prevent someone from voting illegally using the departed Ms. Lucero’s card? Nothing at all. And the fraud would surely go undetected. Ms. Lucero isn’t going to complain, and the use of countywide vote centers lowers the odds that poll workers will recognize voters who come in to cast a ballot. No fraud found here.
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