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( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Westword’s Kylie Horner asked Andrew Cole, Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s Communications Advisor, about Gessler’s repeated references to unproven instances of election fraud in Colorado. I’m sending over a big high-five to Westword for asking the question, which major media are ignoring, but Cole slipped out of it, as […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Every time Secretary of State Scott Gessler alleges outright voter fraud in Colorado, I think to myself, this has to be the last time he says this, unless he produces evidence to back it up. And then he says it again, like he did on KLZ’s Grassroots Radio Colorado […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Since day one in office, Gessler has had a number of problems as well a problem with numbers, as in figures. First, you recall, it was his salary figure. Too low. Then he said there was the “pretty high incidence” of fraud (implying a BIG number) in Denver’s 2009 […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) There’s a good chance someone is going to say something newsworthy when they preface it with, “some folks in my office cringed when I said this, but I’m going to say it again.” That’s what Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler told the a GOP group, as reported by […]

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 […]

(Yeah, but did he pinky-swear? – promoted by Colorado Pols) Secretary of State Scott Gessler said a lot of interesting things during his speech at Colorado Christian University last week, but reporters should circle back and ask about a story Gessler told about the last legislative session. We know that Gessler made a lot of references to voter fraud […]