Urban Inc, based in Greenwood Village, CO, manages 3,500 apartments in over 40 properties throughout Colorado and Wyoming. As is custom in the industry, one of the security services provided tenants is a prohibition against soliciting on the premises.

I certainly can not quarrel with Urban Inc's logic for the restriction, but I do when it comes to the tenants' civil rights. In this instance, the right to be informed when they are exercising their constitutional right to Vote.

The only direct information tenants will receive at their homes on ballot issues and local candidates for this election will be that received through the mail. That information will come from the tax supported local governments. They will not receive information from the donation supported local taxpayer groups opposing ballot issues or the candidates. Direct contact has been prohibited by the landlords.

In Northglenn there are City Council contests and a ballot on a large property tax increase. Increasing the tax by 86 percent has an obvious down side but Urban Inc will only allow the tenants to hear one side of the issue. Tenants will be impacted by its passage, as well the homeowners. It is unfortunate for the tenants because they will be uninformed and blindsided when the ballot arrives.

Urban Inc and the other property management companies should rethink their all inclusive prohibition on soliciting when it comes to the tenants' duty to exercise one of their constitutional rights; immediately.