Governor Walter Johnson today called a special session of the Colorado legislature to discuss the problem confronting this state’s 25,000 Jewish voters, a large number of whom may refrain from participating in the ballotting because the primaries fall on the first day of Rosh Hashanah.
The issue has been widely discussed for some time, with some sections of the press advocating the granting of absentee ballots to those Jews who, because of religious reasons, will abstain from voting in the primaries. The special legislative session will open Monday.
Meanwhile, it was revealed today that the Rabbinical Council of Denver, in an effort to resolve the issue, had sought to obtain an opinion from higher rabbinic authority on the use of voting machines, which does not involve writing, on Rosh Hashanah. The Council’s efforts, however, failed to bring an authoritative reply.
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