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Colorado Voter Registration and Mail In Ballot Information

 

First Time Voters who wish to register by mail should complete the Voter Registration and Mail-In Ballot Application.  Identification is required.  Colorado law requires identification at the polls and for first time voters who vote by Mail-In-Ballot.  Types of approved ID may be found on the Secretary of State’s website  You may also speak to the Secretary of State Election Division representative at 303-894-2200 or you may contact your County Clerk and Recorder’s office for information.

 

Repeat Voters who which to use Vote By Mail permanently should complete the Mail-In-Ballot Application that must be received by the County Clerk’s Office by close of business on Tuesday, the seventh day proceeding Election Day.  Mail-In-Ballots may be obtained IN PERSON at the County Clerk’s Office until close of business on the Friday proceeding Election Day.

 

After the County Clerk and Recorder receives your completed applicaton or letter to receive a Permanent Mail-In-Ballot, your name will be placed on a list to receive a Mail-In-Ballot for each applicable election.

 

Removing your name from the Permanent Mail-In Ballot.  Once you name is placed on the list to receive a Permanent Mail-In-Ballot, you will remain on the list until one of the following:  

·        You send a letter, or fill out Mail-In Ballot Application and select the check box “Remove my name from the list.” Send the letter o r completed form to your County Clerk’s Election Office.

·        Your Mail-In-Ballot is returned to the County Clerk and Recorder as undeliverable.

·        Your voter registration record is marked “Inactive”.

 

Speaking at the National Press Club on Nov. 17, AFT president Randi Weingarten outlined both provocative and proven approaches to improve public education and thereby make a long-term investment in the country's lagging economy.

Citing President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden's "powerful promise of hope and their sound solutions to the country's most vexing problems" as the keys that helped them win the nation's trust and confidence, AFT president Randi Weingarten congratulated the winning candidates on their extraordinary Nov. 4 election victory.

AFT Disaster Relief Fund
AFT Members Need Your Help
Members from Texas to Ohio have been affected by the recent hurricanes. Please consider donating to the AFT Disaster Relief Fund.

 

Taking a long tradition of union-led education reform to a new level, the AFT on Sept. 11 announced the creation of the AFT Innovation Fund, a groundbreaking initiative to be funded by the union and philanthropies to support sustainable, innovative and collaborative reform projects developed by members to strengthen our public schools.
A new national TV ad campaign launched on Labor Day highlights the critical issues facing America's struggling middle class. The ads—produced by American Rights at Work—are part of a coordinated effort among labor unions, workers' rights advocates and other groups to build on broad public support for the Employee Free Choice Act as a way to help create better jobs. Get more information and sign the online petition.
Over a period of just seven weeks, from Jan. 14-March 3, a total of 26,419 people took the online 2008 Health Care for America Survey sponsored by the AFL-CIO and Working America. Most are insured and employed. Most are college graduates. More than half are union members.

AFT Colorado has joined with other AFT affiliates in supporting a groundbreaking collaborative effort to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa.  Your donation goes toward ...

*  Funding/support for African programs.

* Training African teaches with AIDS preventions, counseling and care programs.

*Workshop Training.

Visit http://www.aft.org/partners/africa-aids/index.htm to obtain more information.  Donations received at AFT Colorado will receive both a campaign pin and a wrist band. 

 

 

 

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