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Big news breaking late Friday from Denver District Court: In November, 2011, the Secretary instituted a rulemaking process to promulgate new rules to administer and enforce Colorado’s campaign finance and election laws. The new rules became permanently effective on April 12, 2012. Plaintiffs consist of numerous public interest groups, watchdog organizations, and individuals, all of […]

A report today from national NBC News: Scott Gessler isn’t a household name in national politics, but could become famous in a hurry, just as Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris did during the 2000 presidential recount… [A]s Colorado’s Republican secretary of state, elected in 2010, Gessler could have a decisive influence on the November […]

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An amusing little edit we caught between two versions of an AP story yesterday, discussing Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s top-priority effort to purge Colorado’s voter rolls of an unspecified number of (but maybe a few dozen) illegally registered voters. As published to the Pueblo Chieftain’s website yesterday evening, one version of the lede paragraph: […]

In your Friday news dump yesterday, this brief AP story: Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler is investigating 85 people who may have been illegally registered to vote. A spokesman for Gessler says jail records are being checked for people being detained as illegal immigrants to see if they match names in the state’s voter […]

Some viral-worthy video of Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler fowarded to us this past weekend, from a speech on “election integrity” he give before the Broomfield 9.12 Group just over a week ago at Sill-Terhar Motors. Here’s a transcript: SCOTT GESSLER: So obviously, this is, uh, we’ve got a big election coming up, and […]

As the Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic reports: In the last two years, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has made voter fraud prevention a top priority. His efforts have included working to stop county clerks from sending absentee ballots to inactive voters, lobbying for a controversial voter ID law and leading an unprecedented effort to […]