November 4, 2004

Ballot Secrecy Lawsuit Filed

A group of Boulder Colorado voters filed a lawsuit to challenge the method that is used to number ballots used in public elections. A Public elections held in the State of Colorado makes use of ballot that are preprinted with sequential serial number. This is done to guard against ballots being counted twice or being excluded from the election tally of results. The worry is that if a note is made of the serial number that individual voters receive then it would be trivial to determine how people voted.

Voters file suit over privacy, Dailycamera.com, October 22, 2004