Thanksgiving Weekend Open Thread

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1. Why does this not surprise me? COGOP tells its members: "Hey, if you're on a county canvassing board, refuse to certify the election!" No real reason, just because Trump was robbed in 2020 and Dominion voting machines and disparaging democratic processes.

   https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/colorado-gop-without-evidence-alleges-systemic-fraud-and-tells-canvas-boards-not-to-certify-november-election/

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   1. Secretary Griswold's email today reported the successful conclusion of the Risk Limiting Audits around the state.

      Colorado’s Bipartisan Risk-Limiting Audit (RLA) of the 2023 Coordinated Election is complete. The Secretary of State’s office worked with Colorado’s county clerks to complete a bipartisan risk-limiting audit that verified the results of the election.

      “Colorado’s 2023 Coordinated Election results have been verified once again by the bipartisan Risk Limiting Audit. This audit is one of many tools my office uses to ensure Colorado’s elections are safe, secure, and accurate,” said Secretary of State Jena Griswold. “Colorado is the best place to be a voter.”

      The Risk Limiting Audit verifies ballots were tabulated according to the intent of the voters who cast them. A Risk Limiting Audit gives a statistical level of confidence that the outcome of an election is correct.

      The SoS website explains more:

      Colorado residents can be confident that official election results reflect the will of voters because we conduct a statewide bi-partisan audit after every election to ensure the integrity of the results.

      Learn how Colorado counties conduct a bi-partisan audit after every election.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKgSKh4utNo

      Interested in more info on Colorado’s election audits, check out our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).  https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/elections/RLA/faqs.html

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2. In legal news, Hall has a restraining order out on Oates

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   1. The rewrite of the Song by Hall & Oates will no doubt be titled:

      He Can't Go for That (No Can Do)

       

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3. Alva, you have to keep working on the redesign. The printing on the landing page is overlapping and getting lost amid the subject boxes. And, just now, when I popped in, the subject boxes and photos were filling the entire screen.

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   1. I'll add that the new site remains much slower than the old.

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      1. You should be seeing significant improvements in site load times now, especially the homepage.

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   2. The site has been heavily tore up through the holiday weekend while we continue to work through a long list of issues with our developers. We apologize for the delay but be assured we won't stop until all of these issues are addressed.

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4. I hadn't noticed last week, but Tina Peters (and her lawyers) have made a move:  Mario Nicolais had a column in yesterday's Colorado Sun

   https://coloradosun.com/2023/11/26/tina-peters-trump-opinion-nicolais/

   Tina Peters is not just suing her prosecutors, she is attacking democracy

   She's making a federal case out of it …

   Tina Peters’ attempt to avoid accountability by filing a federal lawsuit against prosecutors would be laughable if it were not so terrifying. Peters is just one example of the brazen gaslighting embraced by far-right extremists today.

    

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   1. Her lawsuit has zero chance of success and will likely be dismissed quickly by the federal court, hopefully with sanctions against the filing attorneys.  But it is a disturbing trend by the nutjob right to weaponize the judicial system.  The complaint is riddled with drivel like this:  

      "This action is grounded on the elementary proposition of law that a command of a state officer, in whatever form, which as applied would compel a county official to violate a federal or state statute has no standing as a legitimate, legally binding command, and so has no force or effect. And when that command is designed to conceal official malfeasance affecting the public interest in accurate and fair elections, which the county official discovers by her efforts to faithfully comply with those federal and state statutes, her truthful public disclosures of the facts of that malfeasance are protected by the most fundamental principles of the First Amendment. The importance of that protection is at its highest in the face of grossly untrue calumny by that state official and the use of government power to retaliate against the county official."

      My prediction is the federal court dismisses this under the Younger abstention doctrine, but I would hope that it would also include sanctions for wasting the federal court's time and resources, including barring the out-of-state attorneys from practicing in the district of Colorado in the future, though the court probably would simply refer it for discipline if so inclined.  The plaintiff's lawyers seem like confederacy supporters.  http://www.mck-lawyers.com/

      Tina is not going to skate on this. 

       

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