President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
50%
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
70%
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
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State House Majority
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REPUBLICANS
95%
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October 06, 2011 09:44 PM UTC
32 Comments
why a Republican would think there is an advantage for their side if fewer get mail-in ballots? Isn’t it supposed to have nothing to do with looking for an advantage? It’s supposed to be about expense and fraud, not turn out, and only libruls could possibly suspect any other motive, right?
Last time I checked, Gessler and Victor Mitchell were not the same person.
They are both entitled to their opinions.
Never mind. It’s not a matter of thinking. You just need to keep finding new excuses for why the real world is such a poor match for the one you live in while closing your eyes and putting your hands over your ears.
I said they are each entitled to their own opinion, looking at it from their own points of view. Are they not?
Few R pols would think lower Denver turn out helps them? Most just really, really beleive that, in spite of no evidence, there’s a tremendous risk of voter fraud if you let people who missed a midterm get ballots? Wait. Don’t bother. The thing about you, ArapG, is that you are a 100% predictable little Borg member.
Doesn’t this give Denver voters un unfair advantage over voters in counties where the ballots aren’t bring sent? Part of Gessler’s argument is this dilutes the vote in counties that are complying with the law!
I keep forgetting that Denver liberals have a different set of rules.
Clerks have always had some discretion about how to conduct elections. They’re elected officials, not bureaucrats simply following the secretary’s instructions.
What about counties that have polling places located more densely than others? Are they diluting the votes of counties that make voters drive farther?
Do clerks who mail their ballots on the 11th dilute the votes from counties where clerks mail the ballots on the 13th?
This is as much about whether clerks have some latitude about how they run elections in their own counties — which is one reason we elect clerks locally instead of letting a central authority run things from Denver — as it is about whatever fight Gessler chose to pick.
You’ve never done that despite repeated requests.
As will be shown by the Court today, there is nothing stopping other couties from also serving their voters better by sending ballots to those who are inactive ONLY because their vote was not cast 2010, whether that was by their own coice, or the ballot getting lost in the mail, or perhaps something came up that prevented them from getting to the polls.
Uniformity would have to come in the form of legislation in this matter. To achieve uniformity, the GA would have to say “you may not mail”, “you must mail”, or get rid the “inactive-failed to vote” category altogether.
Mitchell basically admitted what we all know anyway. You really might be the only person who believes the bullshit you post here.
Most everyone I know who reads this blog would never, ever post here. I believe that providing an alternative viewpoint in this liberal propaganda mouthpiece is very important, and I am confident that there are plenty of readers who agree with me more than any of you.
Sure…
How, exactly, would voter fraud work if Denver mails its ballots to inactive registered voters? I’m interested in how, theoretically, that could be coordinated and pulled off.
nobodys buyin’ – sucks to be you.
its not based on facts, or logic for that matter, but it is a viewpoint. Kind of like birthers.
ArapG has confused “alternative viewpoint” with “alternate reality”. So much so that he believes things even GOP pols and Koch brothers spokespersons don’t claim to believe. It’s almost endearing. But since, as I understand it, ArapG isn’t 6 years old, not so much.
then who will?
Think of the Koch Bros as a pair of conservative billionaire Tinker Bells. They rely on ArapaGOP clapping his hands to stay alive.
ArapGOP stand for. Wonder what the “a” and “p” are for.
thanks for the backhand pops.
Hate to deflate your vapid asshole ego but you can do us a favor and save your alternative viewpoint of unsubstantiated opinionated RW crap for you & your willfully ignorant cabal.
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As the party without principle, Republicans are just perfecting their techniques for stealing next year’s election. When you have a clown for a candidate and no new ideas, the only thing to do is use your position as SOS to corrupt elections. They are traitors to our democracy who are doing more damage to our political institutions than the jihadists could ever dream of doing. No one believes Gessler is an impartial arbiter of the law.
Democrats and Independents need to mount a recall campaign against this asshole before he becomes the next Blackwell.
We would have no one to blame but ourselves if we let this continue into 2012. We know now what he’s about – it’s crystal clear, even if some tried to think the best before SG was elected. Need action.
Close ones can be stolen and they’re just getting warmed up.
won’t be an all-mail election. Sure there will be cascading problems as people who were disenfranchised from this year’s election now have two elections where they were inactive, and so subject to being culled from the rolls. My question is– how will polling places handle the “didn’t get a ballot, but on the mail ballot list” voters?
I nearly missed one election because I had planned on needing an absentee ballot. Having registered absentee, I didn’t get around to filling it out until too late and figured I would drop by my polling place after work. They wouldn’t let me vote because I was on the mail list and I had to run home, grab my absentee ballot and truck it to the clerks office.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the rules that put the mail-in voters and the in-person voters into separate piles will be reconciled with the spurious “don’t mail a ballot unless we like you” rule by simply disenfranchising a bunch of people.
Want to waste their time trying to get over 400,000 signatures in 60 days, please go ahead.
the kind of seizures you would be having if a Democrat was so blatant about using his position to steal elections? You would be shitting all over yourself with outrage.
Gessler being Gessler will probably give us a lot more examples by next spring. With the clown prince of the Republican Party anointed by then there will be a lot of Obama folks who will take seriously the threat of Gessler’s hack partisanship and as we saw with Douglas Bruce and the anti-government amendments last year, money can buy you a lot of canvassers.
I wonder if the Obama campaign is going to have any money to spend to combat voter suppression practices by the Republicans?
before we get it? The Obama folks should put substantial resources into this – GOP attempts to control who votes could be more impactful than GOP attempts to control the message. A major factor in Obama’s 2008 win was his amazing GOTV operation (I know because I worked in it). The GOP knows this and is already working hard to suppress it.
If Rollie were to hold himself to the same standards of his hb1326, he wouldn’t even be on the ballot.
Signatures from every congressional district.
Brucie boy and his shenanigans last year in committing election violations to get the kill Colorado amendments on the ballot.
Look in the mirror if you want to see a true hypocrite.