Recent News: Boulder County Canvass Board
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| DATE | DESCRIPTION | GO-TO LINK TARGET | MISC FYI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09 MAY 2013 | Rep. Dan Pabon, is the Denver Democrat who sponsored HB 1303, now being signed into law by Democrat Guv Hickenlooper. |
"This is a historic measure that will enfranchise more voters in Colorado than we've ever seen in our
state's history," Pabon said. [Sure, more illegal Democrat-voters! - DRM] www.denverpost.com |
Copy and Paste this Email Friendly Link: http://tinyurl.com/cz3hxev |
| 08 MAY 2013 | HB 1303: "A setback for election integrity" - Wherein is revealed: Almost 2.7 million people appear to be dual-registered in at least two states. | www.denverpost.com NOTE: HB 1303 enables same-day registration and voting on Election Day many [ no, dammit, many thousands! - DRM] could register and vote in Colorado within minutes with nothing more than a utility bill. | Copy and Paste this Email Friendly Link: http://tinyurl.com/bn4mtqc |
| 07 MAY 2013 | El Paso County clerk: "Colorado’s HB 1303 invites voter fraud." |
blogs.denverpost.com Watch El Paso County Clerk Wayne Williams' YouTube Video discussing the reasons why he opposes HB 1303. |
Copy and Paste this Email Friendly Link: http://tinyurl.com/btz8msb |
| 06 MAY 2013 | "Democratic-backed elections reform bill heads to Guv" - In which Republicans cry foul, call Democtat-sponsored State House Bill 1303 bill a sham. | www.coloradostatesman.com [HB 1303 enables: (1) Same-day voter registration and voting and (2) Mail Ballot Only elections. This makes Voter Fraud even more likely - DRM]. | Copy and Paste this Email Friendly Link: http://tinyurl.com/bnbd52u |
| 30 APRIL 2013 | Colorado Secretary of State Gessler: "New election law [HB 1303] opens door to voter fraud and intimidation" |
SOS Gessler also says: "...this bill is a rush to failure...
[it's] unrealistic 100-day timeline will result in a sloppy,
untested system that puts our voters at risk." www.timescall.com |
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| 30 APRIL 2013 | "Gessler wins latest battle over mail ballots" | www.dailycamera.com | Copy and Paste this Email Friendly Link: http://tinyurl.com/cc2yh4f |
| 02 April 2013 | "Election watcher renews objections about Boulder County's ballot sorting machine" - Wherein the three Democrat Commissioner's... |
www.dailycamera.com
... all piously pretend there is some legal reason to defer any and all investigation of Citizen August's adverse evidence until Democrat Clerk Hall approves of her own prior decision to buy this flawed machine... |
...The "findings" of such a self-serving group of political cronies are a foregone conclusion.
Email Friendly Link: http://tinyurl.com/bt3t573 |
| 14 March 2013 | "Boulder County says: $7,500 for open records request justified"
- Wherein is asked, "...how $7,500 could possibly be seen as 'nominal,' [and]..." |
"...what would [constitute] 'confidentiality and proprietary information' regarding a piece of equipment used in elections, which are supposed to be among the most open and transparent processes in the country?" www.boulderweekly.com | Email Friendly Link: http://tinyurl.com/ccf3tbl |
| 14 March 2013 | "Boulder and Sunshine Laws: Not-so-sunny days --- Why isn't Boulder at the forefront of open government?" | www.boulderweekly.com Your illegitimate webmaster notes that the Boulder County Clerk consistently asserted that 2012 Canvass Board meetings DID NOT fall under state and Federal Sunshine Law requirements. | Email Friendly Link: http://tinyurl.com/az8sdag |
| 13 March 2013 | "Mary Eberle: Return flawed election machine" - Wherein yet another Citizen demands that the expensive ($200,000+) and malfunctioning "ROBO-JUDGE" be returned to Bell&Howell for a full refund. | www.timescall.com. In her letter, Citizen Eberle asks: "You marked your ballot, signed the envelope, mailed or delivered it. You voted! Or maybe not. November's Boulder County election rejected 801 voters' ballots. Was yours one of them?" | Call and
email each of
Boulder County Commissioners Cindy Domenico, Deb Gardner, and Elise Jones. 303-441-3500
Demand that they FIRE THE ROBO-JUDGE !!
Email Friendly Link: http://tinyurl.com/cd9ey3j |
| 11 March 2013 | "Russ Boehm: Boulder County election process flawed"
- Wherein BoCo Clerk Hall is berated for describing the Uncertified 2012 election as "a major success." |
www.timescall.com. Author Boehm summarizes his criticism of Hall (and her 'ROBO-JUDGE') with "Boulder County voters deserve more than self-aggrandizing performance reviews." | Email Friendly Link: http://tinyurl.com/bzg84nn |
| 10 March 2013 | Learn about all the 'features' of the new Boulder County
' ROBO-JUDGE '... |
... in this funny yet terrifying
YouTube video (5 minutes). |
Email Friendly Link: http://tinyurl.com/a7gwtpg |
| 07 March 2013 | "Election watcher wants Boulder County to stop using a ballot envelope sorting machine"
Neither D-C or T-C published this article in their free on-line editions. |
www.dailycamera.com - The reporter (a registered DEM) headlines a pleasant description of a '...envelope sorting machine' which is actually a highly complex, network-enabled computer control mechanism for Mail Ballot scanning and Signature Verification. Yes, it does sort too. The Longmont Times-Call published the same article here but the comments are different. | See the complete
14-page Report documenting its failures in the 2012 Boulder County General Election.
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| 07 March 2013 | "Former Boulder County canvass board member questions validity of two county commissioners'
election certificates" Neither D-C or T-C published this article in their free on-line editions. |
www.dailycamera.com
- The Reporter (a registered DEM) implies in the headline that it is an individual, rather than Colorado election
statute itself (CRS 1-4-604, 1-13-105,1-13-107, 1-13-111),
that casts the shadow over the right of two Commissioners (both DEMs) to hold office.
The Longmont Times-Call published the same article here but the comments are different. |
If a future court case showed the election of Commissioners Jones and Gardner to be invalid then all of their
past decisions, as Commissioners, would also be invalidated.
Email Friendly Link: http://tinyurl.com/bbvf9bf |
| 15 February 2013 | "Transparency trouble: Boulder officials increasingly resistant to coughing up open records"
See also: "Papers, please..." further below. |
www.boulderweekly.com -- In which is shown a growing number of government agencies in Colorado - including City and County of Boulder - are all charging more for, and taking more time to, produce... | public documents when faced with open records ("CORA") requests.
Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/as5vn2o |
| 31 January 2013 | "In case you missed it | Insult to injury" | In which Boulder County Clerk finally paid its Canvass Board Members their meager $125 wages four months after their work began - and two months after it ended! www.boulderweekly.com. | NOTE: Canvass Board Members worked hundreds of hours in public service and were exposed to unlimited personal liability - all for only $125 in wages. Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/a66yber |
| 21 January 2013 | "Colorado judge denies Scott Gessler on 'inactive voters' lawsuit." | www.denverpost.com - In which it is reported that "Secretary of State Scott Gessler sued Denver County Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson [D] in 2011 for sending mail ballots to ["inactive failed to vote"] voters." | Are you as comfortable with sending Mail Ballots to non-voters as the DEMs seem to be? Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/bxywkjo |
| 18 January 2013 | "Gessler grilled on secretary of state’s practices - Elected official says he’s working to further ‘American Dream’." | coloradostatesman.com - Wherein is reported that Democrats hammered Gessler over his office’s use of resources to purge non-citizen voters from the rolls. | Are you as comfortable with 12% of votes being from non-citizens as the DEMs seem to be?
Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/b9qdf5s |
| 10 January 2013 | "Doubts still plague Boulder's election results despite Colorado ruling"
"Why would [legislators] write rules if they’re not to be obeyed?" Canvass Board Chair Russ Boehm, a Republican, told BW... |
"...I probably violate traffic rules every day, and even though it doesn’t change the outcome of the world,
if I get stopped, I’ll probably get a ticket...
Here's the original article: www.boulderweekly.com |
"...If a violation of these rules doesn’t cause the outcome of an election to change, then the rules
essentially don’t count."
Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/a4ataos |
| 20130103 Times-Call |
"Gessler says his re-election is needed to continue his election-integrity efforts."
Unfortunately, the article fails to report that SOS Gessler also - and more ominously - stated... |
...that the Democrat-controlled State House and Senate were probably going to enact the three landmines at right.
Each of these "wild-west" schemes will have an explosively negative impact on the Integrity of future elections in Colorado. |
Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/agwxs9k |
| 20121221 Colorado Statesman |
"Legislators hear concerns of county clerks" | coloradostatesman.com - Wherein Clerks lobby the Colorado Legislature for same-day registration and voting, sending Mail Ballots to Inactive voters, closing Precinct Polling Places, and castrating Canvass Boards. | Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/d2amzt5 |
| 20121211 Westword |
"Recount request in Boulder withdrawn by Republican candidate due to high cost" | blogs.westword.com. - Wherein the candidate says, "When I went to door to door, I had dozens of people who told me they weren't going to vote, because they don't have any confidence in the way votes are counted.... That's a concern. I don't care what party it is." | Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/b94gn8m |
| 20121210 Westword |
"Republican candidates in Boulder and Pueblo pursue recounts, despite wide margins of loss" | Readallaboutit here:
blogs.westword.com - Wherein candidates in both counties have taken steps to pursue recounts by first requesting information about cost estimates (for an example, Click here). Extreme fees by hostile Clerks suppress election integrity for all of us. |
Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/auerfuv |
| 20121210 Colorado Statesman |
"Gessler gets earful on listening tour | coloradostatesman.com - In which Arapahoe County Republican Party chair Joy Hoffman charged voter intimidation at several locations in Aurora, including a blackjack-wielding volunteer (What !? ...was the worker soliciting a card game?) and a "hideous" scene in Mission Viejo. | Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/cz7ud76 |
| 20121208 The Coloradoan |
"Election officials across Colorado push for voting overhauls by lawmakers" | www.coloradoan.com "Democrats, who will for the first time since 2010 have full control of the Legislature and the governor’s office, have unsuccessfully run legislation in recent years seeking to allow registration as late as the day of an election." Now doubt this will be attempted again. | Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/aul4o6u |
| 20121205 Daily Camera |
"Boulder County activists vent elections concerns to Secretary of State Scott Gessler" | www.dailycamera.com | Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/bhjzbrm |
| 20121204 Times-Call |
"Secretary of State includes Boulder County stop in 'election integrity listening tour'" | www.timescall.com | Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/abvb3sv |
| 20121204 Times-Call |
"Boulder County sends election certification letters, but secretary of state has not yet accepted results" | www.timescall.com | Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/a9luwqt |
| 20121204 Daily Camera |
"Angie Layton: Election results -- Canvass board is doing its job" | www.dailycamera.com | Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/ahcx598 |
| 20121203 Denver Post |
"County clerks ready to revisit mail ballots, other previously thorny election issues" | blogs.denverpost.com | Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/agqrz7l |
| 20121203 Westword |
"Scott Gessler: Boulder clerk protesting election non-certification sang a different tune in 2004" | blogs.westword.com ...In which Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler points out that now Boulder County Clerk Hall was a canvass board member in 2004, when she voted against Certification. |
Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/cojwudr |
| 20121201 Longmont TimesCall |
"Russ Boehm: Editorial an insult to canvass board |
www.timescall.com
Canvass Board majority Chairman Boehm calls out the dependably 'hard-a-port' TimesCall editors. |
Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/dyrn4ru |
| 20121130 Daily Camera |
"Guest opinion: The election was transparent and fair" | www.dailycamera.com ...In which the Canvass Board Democrat minority praise the election outcome. |
Email Friendly:http://tinyurl.com/d2bx84n |
| 20121129 Press-Citizen |
"Some modest proposals for voter signature verification" | www.press-citizen.com More local background on this story: Click here. |
Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/cxqmtx4 |
| 20121128 Longmont TimesCall |
"Was refusal to certify election vote a foregone conclusion? |
www.timescall.com
Was this drive-by scolding the editor's way of keeping the sheeple calmly grazing? |
Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/dyrn4ru |
| 20121127 Westword |
"Boulder election results not certified by canvass board -- only county rejection in Colorado" | Within the article in blogs.westword.com, Clerk Hall offers some explanations why 41 Precincts had "Total Votes Counted" (Col M) as more than "Total Ballots Cast" (Col H). | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/br5bne2 |
| 20121126 Daily Camera |
"Boulder County canvass board refuses to certify 2012 election results" | www.dailycamera.com
Of course the story was also picked up by its conjoined twin: www.timescall.com |
Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/br5bne2 |
| 20121124 Longmont TimesCall |
"Canvass board majority to refuse certifying Boulder County election results" | www.timescall.com The same story was picked up here: www.dailycamera.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/ccacoz5 |
| 20121121 Boulder Weekly |
"Papers, please: An attempt to infiltrate a closed meeting of a Boulder County board | www.boulderweekly.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/asphtc4 |
| 20121115 Boulder Weekly |
"Boulder County election workers spar over open meetings" To read the "Email Trail" Click Here. | "When you shine the flashlight under the sink, all the bugs scurry." To read the full article, click this link: www.boulderweekly.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/c525vqs |
| 20121110 Daily Camera |
"Boulder County ballots: Thousands could still be added to final election tallies" | www.dailycamera.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/a8hcdsl |
| 20121110 Daily Camera |
"From the editorial advisory board: Elections, 2012" | www.dailycamera.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/abptaxo" |
| 20121108 Westword |
"Scott Gessler: Officials probably didn't catch all fraudulent voters before election" | blogs.westword.com ...In which Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler says some illegal votes might be counted, since so many who were flagged remained on the rolls. |
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| 20121106 Daily Camera |
"Boulder County ballot counting goes smoothly""
...well, maybe not so quite. |
www.dailycamera.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/c4584o4 |
| 20121103 Longmont TimesCall |
"Swing-state scrutiny: Boulder County clerk says past ballot-counting problems are resolved" | www.timescall.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/adctfwu |
| 20121103 Longmont TimesCall |
"Boulder County election judges should be calling out voters' names, critic complains" NOTE: This complaint was later withdrawn. |
www.timescall.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/buwb54g |
| 20121102 Westword |
"Scott Gessler voter checks: 44 removed from rolls, four of them Republicans" | blogs.westword.com ...In which Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler says his office has identified 300 more non-citizens illegally registered to vote. |
Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/ce92f27 |
| 20121101 Longmont TimesCall |
'[Boulder County Clerk Hillary] Hall using taxpayer money wisely,' says Democratic Party Chairman. | www.timescall.com Chairman Gould continues, "...the incidence of voter fraud is miniscule...[and based on reports] there is the chance that six-tenths of one vote is compromised by so-called voter fraud." About 138,000 Mail Ballots were sent out for the 2012 General Election. | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/bfpr57j |
| 20121101 Boulder Weekly |
"Election activist mulls recount" | www.boulderweekly.com "Announcing [a recount request] in advance would avoid the perception that an unsuccessful candidate motivated by 'sour grapes' is requesting it", according to Shnelvar. | Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/byl4nb6 |
| 20121029 Denver Post |
"Boulder County settles election lawsuit by allowing more access to ballot observers." Longmont's Times-Call also reported on the settlement. | www.denverpost.com NOTE: The headline at left is misleading as the 'ballot observers' cited are actually multi-partisan Official Watchers enabled by Colorado Statute. | Email Friendly: http://tinyurl.com/8wg7b6t |
| 20121025 Longmont TimesCall |
"Critics air concerns about Boulder County's ballot processing" | www.timescall.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9elsfak |
| 20121024 Longmont TimesCall |
"Critics air concerns about Boulder County's ballot processing" | www.timescall.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9elsfak |
| 20121020 The Hill |
"International monitors at US polling spots draw criticism from voter fraud groups" | thehill.com "UN-affiliated monitors will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups." Even if there are problems with election details in Boulder County, these foreign meddlers have no jurisdiction here. | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9cxchjg |
| 20121019 Daily Camera |
"Pair of defective mail-in ballots reported in Boulder County" | www.dailycamera.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9aq6nqh |
| 20121019 Daily Camera |
"Lawsuit demands that watchers be given access to Boulder County's ballot processing" | www.dailycamera.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/8br6az5 |
| 20121019 Boulder Weekly |
"Independence Institute backs election integrity lawsuit against Boulder County clerk | www.boulderweekly.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9zxqjev |
| 20121019 The Citizen's Center: home |
"Citizen Center Appeals Court's Denial of Secret Ballot Rights | www.thecitizencenter.org | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9gr2dhy |
| 20121012 Palm Beach Post |
"Absentee ballot delays worry some voters" NOTE: Boulder County has the same problem with purposely hidden 3rd-party vendor operations that print, assemble, pair voters with Ballot styles, and mail. | www.palmbeachpost.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9n9rpbd |
| 20121011 Boulder Weekly |
"Records indicate [Boulder County Clerk] Hall made call on refusing election activists" | www.boulderweekly.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/8zwb7y8 |
| 20121010 Washington Post |
"Could Colorado be another Florida?"
NOTE: For the record, the Boulder County Clerk and the two other DEM Canvass Board members have been invited to all Canvass Board meetings and included in all CB correspondence. So far it has been their decision to ignore them. |
www.washingtonpost.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9abv9mp |
| 20121009 Longmont TimesCall |
"Boulder County commissioners begin hearings on 2013 budget requests" | www.timescall.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/8zrh9eo |
| 20121008 Boulder Daily Camera |
"Election activists, Boulder County clerk spar over absentee ballots" | www.dailycamera.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/8wnxz5v |
| 20121008 Denver Post |
"Colorado county clerks blast Gessler for 'errors and oversights'" | www.denverpost.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9nevnop |
| 20121008 Colorado Voter Group |
"HAVA complaint filed against Secretary of State" | www.coloradovotergroup.org/ | Excellent and informative Voting Integrity website. |
| 20121005 Longmont TimesCall |
"Boulder County to test ballots, equipment" | www.timescall.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9x33hz3 |
| 20121004 Longmont TimesCall |
"Secrecy of ballots worth protecting" | www.timescall.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9kh3x7t |
| 20121004 Boulder Weekly |
"Controversy grows as Hall denies excluding ballot activists from printer" | www.boulderweekly.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9dq9jk5 |
| 20121004 Boulder Weekly |
"Rogue election group takes on [Boulder] county clerk" NOTE: "Rogue" or not, Canvass Board Members are, by Colorado law, Election Officials with considerable jurisdiction and responsibility. For example, any required election re-count is to be conducted by the Canvass Board rather than the Clerk. | www.boulderweekly.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9mf3efn |
| 20121003 Reporter Herald |
"Secrecy of ballots worth protecting" | www.reporterherald.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/93hkk7p |
| 20121001 Boulder Daily Camera |
"Election activists blocked from watching printing of Boulder County's ballots" | www.dailycamera.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9b9hyly |
| 20120922 Boulder Daily Camera |
" Judge tosses Boulder ballot case, says there's no right to a secret vote " | www.dailycamera.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/8vv5so6 |
| 20120916 Boulder Daily Camera |
"County clerk: Anonymity and efficiency - Boulder County's ballots allow for both" | www.dailycamera.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/9vq6m6y |
| 20120912 Boulder Daily Camera |
"Election watchdogs seek to block Boulder County ballot printing" | www.dailycamera.com | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/8qnfuyz |
| 20120628 Citizens Center |
"Colorado Supreme Court Decision Assures That Ballots Remain Public Records" | www.thecitizencenter.org | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/8rq9hnn |
| 20120430 denvergov.org |
"Gessler announces Grant for Denver iPad Voting Pilot Project" |
www.denvergov.org | Email friendly: http://tinyurl.com/8obu8x4 |
| 2012 | CCCA: Colorado County Clerks Association --- "...the [Colorado County Clerks] Association asserts that it is Colorado’s official keeper of election integrity. In fact, nothing can be further from the truth." Read entire article. |
www.clerkandrecorder.org
MISSION STATEMENT: "[To] Create an organizational structure that supports best practices, use of technology and appropriate legislations through teamwork, communication and mutual respect." Check the News articles above and CB Watcher Page then you decide how well Boulder County is meeting these ideals. |
Official CCCA website |
| 2012 | Search on-line Colorado Constitution, Statutes, etc. | www.lexisnexis.com | Webpages for Colorado laws |
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