Posted on 08/29/2016 12:51:05 PM PDT by snarkpup
Colorado officials identified “several potentially forged signature lines” on a failed ballot anti-fracking ballot measure pushed by environmental activists to restrict drilling inside state lines.
Officials said “No. 78,” a measure calling for a 2,500-foot setback on hydraulic fracturing, may have had forged signatures, and Colorado State Department officials “referred the questionable section to the Attorney General’s office for investigation.”
Secretary of State Wayne Williams announced Monday that “two proposed ballot measures aimed at adding more limitations on oil and natural gas drilling in Colorado failed to make the November ballot because supporters didn’t collect enough valid voter signatures.”
Both those ballot measures were pushed by environmentalists seeking a de facto ban on fracking — a process that involved pumping water, sand and some chemicals deep underground to unlock previously untapped oil and natural gas deposits.
(Excerpt) Read more at boereport.com ...
The way signature gathering works in Colorado is that the Secretary of State aggressively kicks out any signature that is at all questionable; and then the court reinstates some of them.
But... but... but... you mean it’s not “settled law”?
Those numbers say well over 20%, maybe 25%, of the signatures were hinky. That’s about what some of us saw individually back when True The Vote did their crowdsourcing of signature checking for one of the Wisconsin anti-Walker votes.
And that was just obvious signature “irregularities”, shall we say — obvious mismatches between the penmanship of the signature and the writing of the address, many signatures looking as they had been written in the same hand, scrawls that were little more than a simple curve, etc. Checking for bogus addresses, people who were not even registered, etc., would have to have been down at HQ.
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