and sometimes it comes down to decisions that are very, very, very individual and very local. we ve been bringing you the story of two county clerks in colorado. where the new republican secretary of state has ordered the counties not to send ballots to voters who would usually expect to get them. in denver, the voters happen to live in heavily hispanic neighborhoods. anybody who hadn t voted since the big election in 2010 or re-upped their registration, no ballot for you. in pueblo county, the voters are u.s. troops overseas what would usually get sent a ballot. the republican secretary of state in colorado said he wanted left out of the ballot mailings this year. on friday, a judge ruled against the republican secretary of state in colorado in a hearing on a denver case, he ruled denver s ballots could get mailed out to the disproportionately hispanic voters. as we reported on friday night, in pueblo county, the clerk there heard the verdict, in the courtroom, heard the judge s verdi
courtroom, heard the judge s verdict and without waiting for details got on to the phone with his office and told him to send out those ballots to those troops. send out the military ballots. this is what fighting back sometimes looks like. rig right? it is a national fight. there s a national plan at work here. sometimes stopping this stuff, sometimes standing up to this stuff comes down to one person, one official doing what he or she believes is the right thing to do and doing it right away. joining us, gilbert ortiz, the pueblo county clerk who was ordered by the colorado secretary of state not to send ballots to military personnel overseas. he joins us live from colorado. thank you for making time to join us tonight. thank you. last week moments after the court ruling, i know our office spoke with you and we learned that you had sent those ballots out to troops overseas. was that a hard decision for you to make? did you know you would do that when that verdict came down that n
and sometimes it comes down to decisions that are very, very, very individual and very local. we ve been bringing you the story of two county clerks in colorado. where the new republican secretary of state has ordered the counties not to send ballots to voters who would usually expect to get them. in denver, the voters happen to live in heavily hispanic neighborhoods. anybody who hadn t voted since the election in 2010, no ballot for you. in pueblo county, the voters are u.s. troops overseas what would usually get sent a ballot. the republican secretary of state in colorado said he wanted left out of the ballot mailings this year. on friday, a judge ruled against the republican secretary of state in colorado in a hearing on a denver case, he ruled denver s ballots could get mailed out to the disproportionately hispanic voters. as we reported on friday night, in pueblo county, the clerk there heard the verdict, in the courtroom, heard the judge s verdict and without waiting for details