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This time last year no one cared where Alissa and Adam Vander Veen were registered to vote -- except Jeffery Weston, Alissa's former colleague and assistant elections manager at the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder's office.
Colorado's election reform law needs tuning up. A plan to put it on blocks for two years made by GOP candidates in tough election races this year is probably not going to fly.
The El Paso County Clerk's office has confirmed that it forwarded a complaint to investigative authorities that alleges former staffer Alissa Vander Veen committed voter fraud in the state senate recall election the county held this summer.
It's odd that anyone would take issue with people simply exercising "their new voting rights," Caldara said, all deadpan. "Maybe instead of getting angry at any of those people, they should fix the damn law."
BROOMFIELD, Colo. -- Residents here have joined Coloradans in our other Front Range towns and voted to either suspend or ban natural gas hydraulic fracturing within city limits.
Jon Keyser reported receiving two ballots in the mail last week. He tweeted photos of them and suggested the state's election system was unreliable. Unfortunately, he shredded one of them, so there's no way to gauge whether the system failed or not.