This year, Colorado lawmakers can pass a bill that will protect the right to vote for active military overseas.
What about our basic trust in government, which rests to some degree on faith in elections? How seriously should take it, or should we ignore it, when our Secretary of State is on the radio making accusations of very recent election fraud?
My search for an explanation from Scott Gessler about why he's been telling the media there's actual "fraud" in Colorado elections bore a bit of fruit last night, when I asked him directly about his allegations.
The reports of early returns are in, and the result is a huge win for voters and a decisive blow against Secretary Gessler's policy of disenfranchisement.
It seems crazy that in Colorado, you won't necessarily get a ballot in the mail, like other good and decent registered voters, if you missed voting in just one election.
Last week, CO Secretary of State Scott Gessler asked a court to essentially freeze the Denver electorate to those who voted in 2010. The court refused.
It is simply a fact that Scott Gessler's lawsuit would impact minorities at a higher rate than anyone else. That is the reality of the situation -- not a "card" that has been played.
A late September lawsuit filed against Denver's Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson by Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler attempts to stop Denver ...
Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman listened in silence Wednesday as Scott Gessler made the startling assertion that "Denver itself admitted" that sending election ballots to inactive voters has resulted in a "pretty high incidence of fraud."
