Marilyn Marks, a Colorado activist who favors more public scrutiny of the vote-counting process, recently won a lawsuit in the Colorado Court of Appeals that voted ballots are public records and should be made available after the election for public scrutiny. Of course the decision said that this scrutiny could not violate a voter’s secret ballot, so of course, the scrutinized ballots cannot identify which voter cast them.

On October 20, Marks was then permitted to examine a few ballots. See this story. Marks was pleased and then wrote a letter to an Aspen newspaper, praising the Pitkin County Clerk. Marks hopes to examine more ballots in future elections. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link to the letter to the editor.