Contest for top election official centered on 2020 election denial, though both candidates agreed Trump didn’t win and that Colorado’s system is safe
Jena Griswold
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Elbert County clerk loses bid to block election monitor
A monitor was appointed because Elbert County Clerk Dallas Schroeder was accused of mishandling ballots in the primary and allowing copies of voting machine hard drives by unauthorized people.
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Nicolais: Ballot box watching events are unnecessary, anti-democratic and dangerous
Whipped into action by the violent rhetoric of Joe Oltmann, conspiracy theorists have begun staking out drop boxes in Colorado
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Where Colorado secretary of state candidates Jena Griswold and Pam Anderson stand on the issues
Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold faces former Jefferson County Clerk Pam Anderson, a Republican, in a race that will determine who oversees Colorado’s elections for the next four years
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Colorado sent 30,000 noncitizens a voter registration mailer
Secretary of State Jena Griswold blamed a database error and said none of the noncitizens will be allowed to register to vote if they try
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The recount results are in: Tina Peters remains a loser in Colorado secretary of state’s race
Indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters remains a loser in the Republican primary for Colorado secretary of state. The results of a statewide recount of the more than 623,000 votes cast in the contest last month showed Peters still losing by about 90,000 votes or 14 percentage points to former Jefferson County Clerk Pam Anderson. […]
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Failed Republican candidates see fundraising spikes fueled by recounts, cash in other Colorado races tightens
Indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters raised $519,000 for her unsuccessful campaign for secretary of state between June 23 and July 27, enabling the Republican to cover travel expenses to Las Vegas and pay cost of a recount in the primary contest she lost by nearly 90,000 votes. The vast majority of the cash, or […]
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Littwin: If you like long shots, you might like Tina Peters’ $250,000 bet on herself to win
If you’re looking for a good working definition of either having too much money or having too many friends with too much money, this should do as well as any: You are the person who has spent $255,912.33 to have Colorado’s county clerks conduct a recount of an election that you lost by 88,000 votes. […]
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Nicolais: Strong local reporters become more critical in a post-truth political world
With just over three months until the 2022 general election, fabrications, half-truths, omissions and utter lies will dominate political discussion from now until November. It is the same song, just at a different tempo. We live in a post-truth political world. Misleading characterizations have always been a part of the political world. More than two […]
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Man who allegedly made threatening phone call to Colorado’s secretary of state is charged
A man who allegedly made a threatening phone call against Colorado’s top elections official has been charged with retaliating against an elected official, prosecutors said Friday. Kirk Wertz, 52, was arrested Wednesday in suburban Denver over the June 30 phone call to the office of Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold after investigators tracked his […]