Std-Ex: Hansen Bill Would Rework Window for Voter Challenges

Proposed curative legislation in response to Boss Godfrey skulduggery

By Curmudgeon

Amidst all the football humphery and outraged throat-clearing, don't miss the Standard-Examiner's front page story this morning on Rep. Neil Hansen [D-Ogden] submitting a bill to require advance challenges to voters to be made at least 30 days ahead of the election.

The story notes skulduggery on the part of Hizzonah Mayor Godfrey's partisans in the last mayoral election, who deposited with the clerk a long list of challenged voters just before election day, making it nearly impossible to vet the challenges by election day. Voter suppression the intended goal. Story also notes another candidate for election downstate ... a Republican of course... who challenged just before election day the eligibility of nearly every registered Democrat in his voting district. Hansen's bill makes good sense.

Kudos to Hansen. Good story. Good bill.