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We turn again to our friends at the Pueblo Chieftain’s editorial board, a subject we’ve spent some enjoyable time with in the recent past. From some of the more egregious distortions we’ve seen this side of the North Korean News Agency to an hysterically fact-free lovefest for Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler and his […]

‘Tis the season for annual shame lists, from Colorado Ethics Watch’s release today: In its annual effort to round up the year in ethics in Colorado, Ethics Watch honed in on the largest controversies and qualified them as the Top Ethical Failures of 2011.  The most egregious of ethical failures took place in Adams County, […]

(Gessler, are you paying attention to what happens when you legislate against “fraud” that does not appear to exist? – promoted by ProgressiveCowgirl) Last May, the Governor of South Carolina signed a bill that changed the voter identification requirements to include a photo id. As many of you are aware, minorities are much more likely […]

The city of Longmont has featured very lively municipal elections for the past couple of cycles–first there was the 2009 takeover of that city’s government by Republicans non-partisans out for revenge over a development battle between the city and LifeBridge Church. This year, fights over city council races and the narrow defeat of conservative Mayor […]

Last Friday, we noted a story from the Pueblo Chieftain’s Peter Roper that struck us with its misdirections and questionable conclusions–as you know, the rate of ballots returned by “inactive-failed to vote” voters this year was substantially higher statewide than in prior years, and in Pueblo County, the percentage of these ballots returned by “inactive” […]

We’re kind of surprised by what seems to be a pushback attempt on the principal story from this week’s election in Pueblo County. On Election Day, Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert Ortiz put out a statement showing that, based on preliminary returns as of the night before, “inactive–failed to vote” voters who received ballots in the […]

If these numbers are correct, we can imagine no more compelling repudiation of Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s lawsuit to stop the delivery of mail ballots to registered voters flagged as “inactive” for not participating in the 2010 elections. From the press release we just got from Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert Ortiz: Pueblo County Clerk […]