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A very interesting post today over at the Junction Daily Blog, where our friend Ralphie reprints an email from Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler to an unnamed Mesa County Republican from the end of March. The subject? Senate Bill 109, the bill to solve problems uncovered last year with mail ballots and so-called “inactive-failed […]

With this press release late yesterday, you may consider any remaining pretense dropped: Following lengthy testimony by Secretary of State Scott Gessler, Republicans on the House Local Government Committee killed SB 109, which would have ended confusion surrounding registered voters who are tagged as “Inactive Failed to Vote” and had bipartisan support from legislators and […]

As the Pueblo Chieftain’s Peter Roper reports: Secretary of State Scott Gessler won’t release the names of the 4,500 people his office has identified who were registered to vote in Colorado but may not be U.S. citizens. Not even to the county clerks who have asked to see the names of those registered in their […]

As the Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic reports: “I really have no idea what he is talking about,” Republican Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Sheila Reiner told the Colorado Independent. Reiner was referring to allegations made again recently by Secretary of State Scott Gessler that non-citizens are registered to vote in the state. Reiner said she […]

Last year at this time, Colorado’s then-newly elected Secretary of State Scott Gessler was just beginning to recover from a major scandal that hobbled his first weeks in office. Gessler had announced in mid-January of 2011 his intention to continue working for his old elections-specialty law firm, the Hackstaff Law Group (formerly Hackstaff Gessler). After […]

If you can hardly believe it, there’s a good reason–the Pueblo Chieftain’s Patrick Malone: A crosscheck of ballots cast in Colorado and Kansas in [the 2010] election showed six people voted in both states, according to Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler. Half of those who voted in both states cast ballots in the 3rd […]

Today, the Denver paper’s Sara Burnett reports that Secretary of State Scott Gessler has issued a rule on campaign finance reporting requirements for primary elections. Due to a legislative mistake when the dates for primary elections were moved up, Gessler had issued a rule that did away with the bi-weekly reports primary campaigns were required […]

The Durango Herald’s Joe Hanel reports on yesterday’s packed hearing in Denver to discuss Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s proposed campaign finance rule changes: Secretary of State Scott Gessler is moving to simplify and loosen the rules for when people who run ballot campaigns have to publicly disclose their finances… Activists on the left argued […]

As the Pueblo Chieftain’s Patrick Malone reports: The legislative committee that reviews regulatory rules rejected changes Secretary of State Scott Gessler adopted that reduce the number of campaign-finance reporting periods in the run-up to primary elections. Nonpartisan lawyers from the Office of Legislative Legal Services found Gessler overstepped his authority to enact the rule. “The […]