The court denied a request to reinstate part of the law requiring applicants to provide additional information to prove citizenship to register and requiring election officials to forward failed applications to “the county attorney and attorney general for investigation.”
In December 1904, the Colorado Supreme Court threw out an entire precinct’s votes in a general election, surprising the state's legal community. In a somewhat similar case, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 7 in Moore v. Harper, which focuses on the independent state legislature theory.
