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As the Grand Junction Sentinel reports, article titled “Legislators lose their confidence in Coffman”: A plot is afoot to remove Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman from the vote-machine certification process. On Tuesday Rep. Bernie Buescher, D-Grand Junction, said state legislation needs to be introduced to take the responsibility of certifying the state’s voting machines […]

Curiouser and curiouser, the Grand Junction Sentinel reports: Elections officials in Mesa and Jefferson counties have tried without success to duplicate difficulties found in the counties’ electronic-voting equipment, difficulties that resulted last month in decertification of the equipment. Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman decertified the equipment made by Omaha, Neb.-based ES&S after optical scanners […]

As the Grand Junction Sentinel reports, article titled “Elections chief shifts stance again”: Electronic voting equipment that is federally certified should be accepted for use in Colorado, the state’s chief elections official said Thursday. The recommendation by Secretary of State Mike Coffman won’t resolve the controversy swirling around the electronic-voting equipment for the 2008 election, […]

As the Denver Post reports: Seeking a way to lead the state out of its voting-machine morass, Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman said Wednesday that he favors using paper ballots at polling places for the 2008 elections. Coffman said he has more confidence in a traditional paper-ballot-and-polling-place system than relying only on electronic-voting kiosks. […]

UPDATE: Liberal group Progress Now calls on Coffman to immediately resign, citing “latest in pattern” of conflicts of interest. Release after the jump. As the Rocky Mountain News reports: The political consulting company running Secretary of State Mike Coffman’s congressional campaign also was working for a voting machine manufacturer when Coffman gave that company’s devices […]

As the Denver Post reported yesterday: Secretary of State Mike Coffman said Wednesday that he won’t step down from his position to free up more time to campaign for Congress. “I will serve as the secretary of state all the way to January of 2009,” Coffman said. But if he loses his bid for the […]

Perhaps Colorado Secretary of State-cum CD-6 candidate Mike Coffman has something else on his mind, as the Grand Junction Sentinel reports: Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Janice Rich lashed out Thursday at Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman, saying he has failed to adequately communicate with her office ahead of the 2008 election. Rich told […]