Judge says purged Colorado voters can cast ballots

DENVER (KWGN) - A late-night decision by a federal court judge last night will allow voters purged will get to cast a provisional ballot on election day.

Under the agreement, the state will generate a list of voters whose registrations were cancelled since May 14th.

Those voters will cast provisional ballots, but if their names are on the list they will be presumed to be eligible voters.

Those provisional ballots would be counted before other provisional ballots.

A federal judge says state officials were "out of bounds" in
some cases where they canceled voters but he didn't want to order
last-minute changes that may cause long lines and problems at the
polls next week. Judge John Kane gave lawyers about 30 minutes to
reach an agreement after listening to about five hours of testimony
in a lawsuit against Secretary of State Mike Coffman.

Colorado Common Cause and other groups filed the lawsuit saying
the state illegally removed names from voter rolls within 90 days
of a federal general election. The groups also say names were
wrongly removed when addresses were listed as undeliverable by the
Postal Service.

The state maintains officials did nothing wrong and that
eligible voters will not be denied the right to vote.