The Commission, which allows parties to have up to six words in their names, has also moved to stop the use of ballot papers as (relatively) cheap billboards.
By exploiting wedge issues and through clever use of ballot initiatives, they demolished both Democrats and moderates within their own party.As the past four years have proved, Colorado's conservative machine can no longer generate election victories.
Further complicating matters, Section 8 ends with an allowance for the use of ballot-counting machines in the state, but only if "secrecy in voting is preserved".
Bailey-Rihn said Stein's lawsuit, backed by the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, fell short of Wisconsin's legal standard to ban use of ballot machines in a recount and failed to show enough evidence of fraud or other issues, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said.
Republican legislators and governors are reversing decades of liberalized access to the ballot by passing laws restricting or eliminating election day registration, early voting, the broader use of absentee ballots and voting by mail.
Possible changes include the use of absentee ballots and online voting, allowing those physically absent to participate in the caucuses, which typically occur on a cold winter night and last for hours.
Final results may not come for a day or more, given the closeness of the vote, the use of paper ballots and the possibility of recounts.
Nationwide, the use of absentee ballots and other forms of voting by mail has more than tripled since 1980 and now accounts for almost 20 percent of all votes.
"We abolished the exclusive use of paper ballots 50 years ago because of the problems that paper ballots engendered," said Jerry H. Goldfeder, an election lawyer who is counsel to the Mark Green campaign for mayor.
