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September 08, 2012 07:12 PM UTC
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is he a source ?
if so, why isn’t his name mentioned ?
Two newspaper articles and a TV report cited, and somehow you suspect Grueskin is “a source”?
to believve Grueskin is involved? He interviewed him right? Was there ever a suggestion that he was involved either in Gessler’s actions or the investigation? If not, you BX, have laid questions on the character of someone
have some point? . . .
And, I’d not, then that’s one helluva dwyer impersonation — kudos.
… how would that change the basic fact: that the supposed R concern that non-citizen voting will skew the election result is… a joke.
No not his job as SOS, silly, his real job–as Republican Party operative.
You can think of his SOS salary as just sort of per diem. His real salary will be deferred until he takes his place as a lawyer/lobbyist for some Repub business or PAC etc.
So it makes no sense to evaluate his performance compared to an actual SOS. The real question is how effective has he been in service of the Repub party? If as you say he has diverted energy and resources away from real issues that would facilitate full voter participation to this smokescreen, then I say, Mission Accomplished! You’re doing a heckuva job Scottie!
An article that was on the same page in today’s paper as the article on Gessler’s numbers including the alleged 35 non-citizen voters. It dealt with those voters who received notice that they were eligible but not registered and who actually are registered. The man interviewed happened to be a Dem who has been registered and has voted in every election since the 70S.
The possible explanation offered was that the program used couldn’t compensate for things like sometimes using an initial (John A. Smith) and sometimes not (John Smith) and other minor deviations like that. Could this account for any of the 35? Could it be that they have names similar to people who voted legally?
The no fly list has certainly made life difficult for people with common, especially common Muslim, names. Just wondering.
Regardless, how much more damage is done to our elections if, in preventing 36 votes, we stop a few thousand with the right to vote from doing so? Which does greater damage to the democratic process and is a more serious outrage? Rs would probably reply that since most of those thousands presented are immigrants or Dems, their sacrifice is well worth it.
There were 35 voters who were identified as voting but not citizens. The media should contact each of those and see what’s up. How many are Republicans, Dems or Unaffs? If they voted and aren’t citizens, they should be charged and deported. If they are citizens well, my guess is that most of them are citizens, and I’d like to know if the number is actually zero, as I suspect.
I work in the rental housing industry. I’m here to tell you that no illegal alien would vote in an election. They just wouldn’t take the risk. Hell, they won’t even take the risk of paying their rent in person.
just so they could screw with the election outcome.
If there were truly non-citizens voting (btw, not the same as illegal aliens — they wouldn’t get accidentally registered while getting a driver’s license), it was because they mistakenly thought it was their right and their patriotic duty to their adopted country to vote.
Some guy’s here moving in the shadows to avoid “the law” and he takes a chance on committing a federal crime with no real pay-out for him? Yeah, I think I’ll vote the next time I’m in Mexico?
Or they forge IDs to drink underage or many other reasons. Nobody gets anything out of forging an ID to vote.
Gessler is a partisan, hack, joke on Colorado, told on a national level. He needs to pack it up and go.
We need someone that puts Colorado above party.
It shows that the current process can in fact weed out the very few mistakes that slip through the cracks, but that in the absence of good work, any attempt to catch those mistakes is more likely to disenfranchise real voters than to ensure that people who shouldn’t be registered to vote aren’t.
What a colossal waste of State taxpayer money.
Unfortunately, wrong-headedness and a susceptibility to scary wingnut conspiracy tales aren’t enough to make a recall campaign worth the time and money. I hope the Colo Dem Party is busy recruiting for a good candidate for 2014 so we can kick Gessler out on his ass.
I thought we had already agreed . . . the GD number was was supposed to be 57 ??!!??
did in previous lead ups to the story, the thirty-five voters who may not be citizens who voted did not all vote at the same time in a single election. This is over the course of several elections.
The country with the most potentially non-citizen voters was Denver with eight over the entire time period.
And, as Common Cause notes, it is entirely possible that the federal database that was relied upon to identify the 35 allegedly non-citizen voters were in fact mistakenly put in the database and are actually U.S. citizens.
No the system isn’t perfect. Some non-citizens have voted in Colorado elections in the 21st century. But the numbers are vanishingly small relative to the numbers of votes cast, have never influenced the outcome of a Colorado election, and pale in number compared to other kinds of voting irregularities in a typical election. The original vote count itself is really only accurate to roughly a 0.5 percentage point confidence interval in the first place, and overvotes, undervotes, non-voting due to error in polling place, non-voting due to inactive voter status for someone who remains at an address, affirmative voting by parolees not legally allowed to vote, failure of the postal service to timely deliver mail in ballots sent close to the cutoff, etc. are all bigger issues numerically than non-citizen voting. The number of people who died between validly mailing their ballots and election day is probably on average larger than the number of non-citizens who actually vote.