GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT

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INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTER

1. To vote you must blacken the

oval ( ) completely to the left

of your choice.

2. Use only a pencil. Make the

mark clear and distinct.

3. If more than the allowable

number of ovals are blackened,

votes for that candidate will not

be counted. EXAMPLE: Vote for

"ONE" means only one oval may

be blackened.

4. DO NOT REMOVE BALLOT

STUB.

5. To vote for a write-in

candidate, blacken the oval( )

and write the candidate's name

on the line provided.

6. If you make a mistake, return

your ballot to the election judge.

OFFICIAL BALLOT FOR

Rio Blanco County, Colorado

GENERAL ELECTION

NOVEMBER 2, 2004

RIO BLANCO COUNTY CLERK

VOTE BOTH SIDES

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS

(Vote for One Pair)

George W. Bush

Dick Cheney

Republican

John F. Kerry

John Edwards

Democratic

Michael Badnarik

Richard V. Campagna

Libertarian

David Cobb

Patricia LaMarche

Green

Ralph Nader

Peter Miguel Camejo

Colorado Reform

Michael Anthony Peroutka

Chuck Baldwin

American Constitution

Gene Amondson

Leroy Pletten

Concerns of People

Stanford E. Andress (Andy)

Irene M. Deasy

Unaffiliated

Walter F. Brown

Mary Cal Hollis

Socialist

Earl F. Dodge

Howard L. Lydick

Prohibition

James E. Harris

Margaret Trowe

Socialist Workers

Bill Van Auken

Jim Lawrence

Socialist Equality

Write-in

UNITED STATES SENATOR

(Vote for One)

Pete Coors

Republican

Ken Salazar

Democratic

Victor Good

Colorado Reform

Douglas "Dayhorse" Campbell

American Constitution

Richard Randall

Libertarian

John R. Harris

Independent

Finn Gotaas

Unaffiliated

Write-in

REPRESENTATIVE TO THE 109TH

UNITED STATES CONGRESS

DISTRICT 3

(Vote for One)

Greg Walcher

Republican

John Salazar

Democratic

Jim Krug

Unaffilliated

REGENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF

COLORADO AT-LARGE

(Vote for One)

Jennifer Mello

Democratic

Steve Bosley

Republican

Daniel Ong

Libertarian

STATE SENATE DISTRICT 8

(Vote for One)

Jay Fetcher

Democratic

Jack Taylor

Republican

STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 57

(Vote for One)

Al White

Republican

Sam Robinson

Democratic

DISTRICT ATTORNEY

9TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

(Vote for One)

Colleen Truden

Republican

COUNTY COMMISSIONER

DISTRICT 2

(Vote for One)

Kenneth C. Parsons

Republican

COUNTY COMMISSIONER

DISTRICT 3

(Vote for One)

Forrest F. Nelson

Republican

COURT OF APPEALS

(Vote YES or NO)

Shall Judge James S. Casebolt of

the Colorado Court of Appeals be

retained in office?

Yes

No

Shall Judge Dennis A. Graham of

the Colorado Court of Appeals be

retained in office?

Yes

No

Shall Judge Arthur P. Roy of the

Colorado Court of Appeals be

retained in office?

Yes

No

Shall Judge Daniel Marc Taubman of

the Colorado Court of Appeals be

retained in office?

Yes

No

Shall Judge John R. Webb of the

Colorado Court of Appeals be

retained in office?

Yes

No

RIO BLANCO COUNTY STATE OF COLORADO NOVEMBER 2, 2004

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40

41

42

43

53

21

A

A

B

B

C

C

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GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT

"Ballot issues referred by the general assembly or any

political subdivision are listed by letter, and ballot

issues initiated by the people are listed numerically. A

'yes' vote on any ballot issue is a vote in favor of

changing current law or existing circumstances, and a

'no' vote on any ballot issue is a vote against changing

current law or existing circumstances."

STATE OF COLORADO

Amendment 34 

Shall there be an amendment to the

Colorado constitution concerning

recovery of damages relating to

construction of real property

improvements, and, in connection

therewith, prohibiting laws that limit

or impair a property owner's right to

recover damages caused by a

failure to construct an improvement

in a good and workmanlike manner;

defining "good and workmanlike

manner" to include construction that

is suitable for its intended purposes;

and permitting exceptions for laws

that limit punitive damages, afford

governmental immunity, or impose

time limits of specified minimum

lengths on filing lawsuits?

Yes

No

Amendment 35

SHALL STATE TAXES BE INCREASED $175

MILLION ANNUALLY THROUGH ADDITIONAL

TOBACCO TAXES IMPOSED FOR HEALTH

RELATED PURPOSES, AND, IN CONNECTION

THEREWITH, AMENDING THE COLORADO

CONSTITUTION TO INCREASE STATEWIDE TAXES

ON THE SALE OF CIGARETTES BY WHOLESALERS

OF THREE AND TWO-TENTHS CENTS PER

CIGARETTE AND ON THE SALE, USE,

CONSUMPTION, HANDLING, OR DISTRIBUTION OF

OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS BY DISTRIBUTORS

AT THE RATE OF TWENTY PERCENT OF THE

MANUFACTURER'S LIST PRICE; INCREASING

SUCH TOBACCO TAXES EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1,

2005; REQUIRING ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS OF

SPECIFIED PERCENTAGES OF THE ADDITIONAL

TOBACCO TAX REVENUES TO EXPAND

ELIGIBILITY FOR AND INCREASE ENROLLMENT IN

THE CHILDREN'S BASIC HEALTH PLAN, TO FUND

COMPREHENSIVE PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE

THROUGH CERTAIN COLORADO QUALIFIED

PROVIDERS, TOBACCO EDUCATION PROGRAMS,

AND PREVENTION, EARLY DETECTION, AND

TREATMENT OF CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR

AND PULMONARY DISEASES, TO COMPENSATE

THE STATE GENERAL FUND, THE OLD AGE

PENSION FUND, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOR

TOBACCO TAX LOSSES RESULTING FROM

REDUCED SALES OF CIGARETTES AND TOBACCO

PRODUCTS; SPECIFYING THAT THE

APPROPRIATIONS OF ADDITIONAL TOBACCO TAX

REVENUES SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO AND NOT

SUBSTITUTED FOR APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUCH

PROGRAMS ON JANUARY 1, 2005; ALLOWING THE

USE OF ADDITIONAL TOBACCO TAX REVENUES

FOR ANY HEALTH RELATED PURPOSE AND TO

SERVE POPULATIONS ENROLLED IN THE

CHILDREN'S BASIC HEALTH PLAN AND THE

COLORADO MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AS

OF JANUARY 1, 2005, UPON A DECLARATION OF A

STATE FISCAL EMERGENCY BY TWO-THIRDS OF

THE MEMBERS OF EACH HOUSE OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND THE GOVERNOR;

PROHIBITING THE REPEAL OR REDUCTION OF

EXISTING TAXES IMPOSED ON CIGARETTES AND

OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS; EXCLUDING ALL

ADDITIONAL TOBACCO TAX REVENUES FROM

FISCAL YEAR SPENDING FOR PURPOSES OF

SECTION 20 OF ARTICLE X OF THE COLORADO

CONSTITUTION; AND EXEMPTING

APPROPRIATIONS OF ADDITIONAL TOBACCO TAX

REVENUES FROM THE STATUTORY LIMITATION

ON GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS GROWTH

OR ANY OTHER EXISTING SPENDING

LIMITATION?

Yes

No

Amendment 36

Shall there be an amendment to the

Colorado constitution concerning popular

proportional selection of presidential

electors, and, in connection therewith,

creating procedures for allocating Colorado's

electoral votes for president and

vice-president of the United States, based on

the proportion of ballots that are cast in this

state for each presidential ticket; making the

terms of the proposed amendment effective

so that popular proportional selection of

presidential electors applies to the 2004

general election; setting forth procedures

and timelines that govern the certification of

election results and the potential recounting

of votes in elections for presidential electors

and in the election on this proposed

amendment; granting the Colorado supreme

court original jurisdiction for the adjudication

of all contests concerning presidential

electors and requiring that such matters be

heard and decided on an expedited basis;

and authorizing the general assembly to

enact legislation to change the manner of

selecting presidential electors or any of the

procedures contained in this amendment?

Yes

No

Amendment 37

Shall there be an amendment to the

Colorado revised statutes concerning

renewable energy standards for large

providers of retail electric service, and, in

connection therewith, defining eligible

renewable energy resources to include solar,

wind, geothermal, biomass, small

hydroelectricity, and hydrogen fuel cells;

requiring that a percentage of retail electricity

sales be derived from renewable sources,

beginning with 3% in the year 2007 and

increasing to 10% by 2015; requiring utilities

to offer customers a rebate of $2.00 per watt

and other incentives for solar electric

generation; providing incentives for utilities to

invest in renewable energy resources that

provide net economic benefits to customers;

limiting the retail rate impact of renewable

energy resources to 50 cents per month for

residential customers; requiring public

utilities commission rules to establish major

aspects of the measure; prohibiting utilities

from using condemnation or eminent domain

to acquire land for generating facilities used

to meet the standards; requiring utilities with

requirements contracts to address shortfalls

from the standards; and specifying election

procedures by which the customers of a

utility may opt out of the requirements of this

amendment?

Yes

No

Referendum A

Amendments to sections 13, 14, and 15 of

article XII and section 22 of article IV of the

constitution of the state of Colorado,

concerning reform of the state civil service

system, and, in connection therewith,

modifying the merit principle, exempting

certain positions from the system, modifying

the number of eligible applicants from which

an appointment is to be made, modifying the

residency requirement, expanding the

duration of temporary employment,

specifying the rule-making authority of the

state personnel board and the state

personnel director, allowing the general

assembly to reallocate the rule-making

authority of the state personnel board and

the state personnel director, authorizing a

modification to the veterans' preference, and

making conforming amendments.

Yes

No

Referendum B 

Amendments to articles IV, VII, and IX of the

constitution of the state of Colorado,

concerning the elimination of obsolete

provisions of the state constitution.

Yes

No

Meeker RE-1 School District

Referendum 3A

SHALL RIO BLANCO (MEEKER) RE-1 SCHOOL

DISTRICT TAXES BE INCREASED BY

$404,670.00 ANNUALLY (WHICH IS A

CONTINUATION OF THE DOLLAR AMOUNT

APPROVED BY THE VOTERS IN 1999 AND

EXPIRES IN TAX YEAR 2004) FOR THE

GENERAL FUND OF THE DISTRICT FOR EACH

TAX YEAR BEGINNING IN TAX YEAR 2005

WITH THE AUTHORITY TO LEVY SUCH

ADDITIONAL TAXES CONTINUING

THEREAFTER FOR THE NEXT FOUR (4)

YEARS THROUGH TAX YEAR 2009 FOR THE

PURPOSES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

PURCHASE OF TEXTBOOKS AND MATERIALS

HIRING AND RETAINING QUALITY STAFF

MAINTAINING SMALL CLASS SIZES

BALANCING THE BUDGET WITHOUT USING

 RESERVES

WHICH TAXES SHALL BE DEPOSITED INTO

AND EXPENDED FROM THE GENERAL FUND

OF THE DISTRICT, (OR SUCH LESSER

AMOUNT AS THE BOARD OF EDUCATION

MAY ANNUALLY DETERMINE), AND SHALL BE

IN ADDITION TO THE PROPERTY TAXES THAT

OTHERWISE WOULD BE LEVIED FOR THE

GENERAL FUND OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT,

AND SHALL CONSTITUTE A VOTER

APPROVED REVENUE CHANGE THAT MAY BE

COLLECTED AND SPENT WITHOUT FURTHER

VOTER APPROVAL, NOTWITHSTANDING THE

LIMITATIONS OF ARTICLE X, SECTION 20 OF

THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION OR ANY

OTHER LAW?

Yes

No

RIO BLANCO COUNTY STATE OF COLORADO NOVEMBER 2, 2004

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D

D

E

E

F

F