The Larimer County clerk provided Coloradans with one of those “you’ve got to be kidding” moments Tuesday when she apparently failed to tell the difference between a news story in an established newspaper and campaign material.
That’s the most obvious — and benign — explanation for Angela Myers’ that copies of the Colorado State University Collegian be removed from a student center used as a ballot drop-off site.
The newspaper, which had covered a visit to the campus by U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, had a picture of the Democrat on its cover.
Myers said it which is prohibited within 100 feet of an election site.
The Republican clerk later had a change of heart after consulting with an attorney and the secretary of state. Perhaps she also recognized that her decision would be ridiculed as a ludicrous interpretation of a reasonable law.
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