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(How long do you think he’ll be waiting? – promoted by Colorado Pols) For about two weeks now, I’ve been calling Scott Gessler’s office most every day, trying to find out if he really believes there’s fraud in Denver elections. It’s a pretty serious accusation, given that we like to think we live in a […]

SATURDAY UPDATE: Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s statement on yesterday’s court action and denial of his requested injunction, via the Colorado Independent: “The judge today did not decide on the merits of the case as this was a preliminary decision. The judge said we have a reasonable probability of success on the merits but also […]

A revealing admission in a Colorado Public Radio story today regarding the lawsuit against Denver by Secretary of State Scott Gessler to stop ballots from being mailed to “inactive” voters. CPR correspondent Ben Markus follows up on the insistence by Gessler that withholding ballots from “inactive” voters won’t make a difference, since response rates are […]

UPDATE #2: FOX 31’s Eli Stokols reports that Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert Ortiz has asked to join the Denver lawsuit as well, as a defendant, to “defend military voters.” Ortiz, who reluctantly complied with Gessler’s order last week not to mail ballots to inactive voters who are members of the military deployed overseas, but stated […]

When the story first broke about Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s lawsuit to prevent Denver from mailing ballots to registered voters marked “inactive failed to vote,” the possibility of a legislative remedy was immediately raised–the situation, after all, was created by the expiration of a temporary requirement that these voters receive ballots passed by the […]

(Down the rabbit hole goes Gessler – promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has been denying that partisanship played any role in his decision to file a lawsuit to stop Denver from mailing election ballots to inactive voters, who last voted in the 2008 general election. Gessler’s latest public denial of […]

As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports: Secretary of State Scott Gessler is right, but for the wrong reasons, Mesa County Clerk Sheila Reiner said Friday. Gessler is right that county clerks are required to send ballots to registered voters for this year’s all-mail elections. But he’s wrong that they aren’t allowed to include […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Under normal circumstances, I’d slam KHOW’s Caplis and Silverman for letting Colorado’s Secretary of State breeze onto their show Wednesday, assert that there’s a “pretty high incidence of fraud” among one type of Denver voters, and then depart without being forced to explain what in the world he was […]