Bet you thought you were a Democrat, didn't you?

Wrong vote info draws Dem fire

The office of Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman scrambled Wednesday to correct a problem with its voter-registration database, which was incorrectly informing voters of their party affiliation.

The state Democratic Party told the office Wednesday morning that several individuals who have registered as either Democrats or Republicans found that their status was listed as "unaffiliated."

The glitch raised immediate concerns from party officials and others who feared that potential participants in Colorado's Feb. 5 caucuses would think they weren't allowed to take part because only those voters who have registered with the Democrats or the Republicans by Dec. 5 are able to caucus.

Both political parties have links taking potential caucus-goers to the secretary of state's voter-registration database.

Coffman said the problem would be fixed immediately.

"This is a very minor issue," Coffman said...

Coffman said that the field that contained voter affiliation submitted by county clerks' offices somehow wasn't getting logged in the state office's online voter-registration information database during the move to a new system...

Apparently the counties know who you are party-wise. But the SoS's new statewide voter database...the one that's replacing the last failed multimillion dollar Accenture statewide voter database...the one that's supposed to replace all 64 individual databases the counties run...the one everybody is telling you to check so you know where to caucus...doesn't.

Tuesday, Coffman was blasted on the floor of the General Assembly for his failure to comply with a state law passed last year requiring concealment of addresses of domestic violence victims in publicly-available state records. Rep. Bernie Buescher had a one-word description: mismanagement.

And as you know, the grownups had to intervene yesterday in Coffman's historically botched (or hopelessly corrupted) handling of voting systems for the 2008 election.

If all of this makes your head spin, makes you wonder if there is anything this man has presided over since taking office that hasn't crumbled into disaster, you're not alone. And fortunately, we've already come up with a solution.

Take Action: Demand Mike Coffman's resignation