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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 […]

You’ve read by now about the major campaign finance rule changes proposed by Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler earlier this month. The brief summary of what Gessler is attempting here, as we understand it, is a smorgasbord of rewrites to campaign finance rules that would significantly undermine issue committee disclosure, while tightening requirements for […]

We’ve taken note a couple of times now of faulty reporting and editorializing in the Pueblo Chieftain, regarding the recent controversy over the delivery of mail ballots to so-called “inactive failed to vote” voters. Beginning with a grossly inaccurate report (later made right) from correspondent Peter Roper on the high rate of return for these […]

(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 […]

(“He is up for retention in a year” – promoted by Colorado Pols) If Secretary of State Scott Gessler loses a lawsuit claiming he overstepped his legal authority by increasing the amount of money a group of people can raise before being subject to state campaign finace regulations, he will appeal the case, Gessler said […]

(This merits a “just…wow” – promoted by Colorado Pols) My search for an explanation from Scott Gessler about why he’s been telling the media there’s actual “fraud” in Colorado elections bore fruit last night, when I asked him directly about his allegations. I respect Gessler for answering my question, even though a crowd of people […]

(Gessler doesn’t need to show you any stinking “evidence” – promoted by Colorado Pols) In an an article in the Pueblo Chieftain Thurs, Secretary of State Scott Gessler was quoted as saying, as he has in the past, that some mail-in ballots are fraudulent. The Chieftain reported: Verifying the validity of voters’ signatures on mail-in […]

(Delegitimizing the press makes everything else easy – promoted by Colorado Pols) When a public figure attacks journalism, reporters should see it as an opportunity to help people understand what reporters do and why they should continue to exist. I mean, if journalists don’t defend themselves, who will? Academics? Maybe, but who cares? And if only the […]

(Gessler prefers softball, naturally – promoted by Colorado Pols) Part of the reason Denver Post columnist Vincent Carroll is effective at getting under the skin of liberals is that he’s so good at mixing his opinion with interviews and other types of original reporting. In my lowly way as a progressive blogger, I try to write […]

That would be, according to this report from Lynn Bartels of the Denver paper’s blog this weekend, straight-up, bare-knuckles, in-your-face partisan objectives. And control of the elections. Bartels has a lengthy excerpt of Scott Gessler’s remarks at the GOP Capitol Club’s luncheon last week in her blog post–here are just a couple of nuggets that […]

(“We just don’t reach out to ColoradoPols bloggers” – promoted by Colorado Pols) UPDATE: Bob Moore, former Executive Editor of the Ft. Collins Coloradoan, emailed me about the treatment he got from Rich Coolidge of Gessler’s press office. Moore wrote: Coolidge stopped responding to me on Larimer GOP questions several weeks before I left. It […]

UPDATE: Add Conejos, but more importantly Eagle County to the list–just in from sources. —– As the Pueblo Chieftain’s Peter Roper reports: Boulder and Pitkin counties have reversed course and will send election ballots to inactive voters this month, the Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s office confirmed Monday. That turnaround comes only two days […]

(How long do you think he’ll be waiting? – promoted by Colorado Pols) For about two weeks now, I’ve been calling Scott Gessler’s office most every day, trying to find out if he really believes there’s fraud in Denver elections. It’s a pretty serious accusation, given that we like to think we live in a […]

SATURDAY UPDATE: Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s statement on yesterday’s court action and denial of his requested injunction, via the Colorado Independent: “The judge today did not decide on the merits of the case as this was a preliminary decision. The judge said we have a reasonable probability of success on the merits but also […]

A revealing admission in a Colorado Public Radio story today regarding the lawsuit against Denver by Secretary of State Scott Gessler to stop ballots from being mailed to “inactive” voters. CPR correspondent Ben Markus follows up on the insistence by Gessler that withholding ballots from “inactive” voters won’t make a difference, since response rates are […]

UPDATE #2: FOX 31’s Eli Stokols reports that Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert Ortiz has asked to join the Denver lawsuit as well, as a defendant, to “defend military voters.” Ortiz, who reluctantly complied with Gessler’s order last week not to mail ballots to inactive voters who are members of the military deployed overseas, but stated […]