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Colorado judge denies Scott Gessler on "inactive voters" lawsuitJanuary 21, 2013 - Denver Post A Colorado state district court judge on Monday ruled that state law allows county clerks the authority to send ballots to "inactive failed to vote" voters in mail-in-only elections...Scott Gessler sued Denver County Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson in 2011 for sending mail ballots to such so-called "inactive" voters. District Court Judge Edward D. Bronfin ruled against Gessler — an election-law attorney — saying that Johnson's interpretation of the law is correct Read full article (Denver Post website)Keywords: election, inactive voters, lawsuit, vote suppression Gessler identifies 35 non-citizens who voted, but holds off on rule-makingSeptember 08, 2012 - Denver Post Secretary of State Scott Gessler said Friday his office had found 35 noncitizens who have voted in Colorado elections, but in the face of criticism over how his office has tried to identify them, Gessler said he would not move forward with proposed regulations to deal with suspected noncitizen voters until after the election. Read full article (Denver Post website)Keywords: election, fear mongering, minority voters, vote suppression Database: 88% of questioned people on voter rolls are U.S. citizensAugust 30, 2012 - Denver Post About 88 percent of the approximately 1,400 suspected noncitizens run through a federal database by the Colorado secretary of state's office were determined to be U.S. citizens — and are eligible to vote. The Department of Homeland Security is continuing to review the remaining approximately 168 people to determine whether any of them also are citizens, said Michael Hagihara, voter registration manager for the secretary of state's office. Read full article (Denver Post website)Keywords: conflict of interest, election, fear mongering, minority voters, vote suppression Gessler asks 4,000 voters to prove they can legally voteAugust 16, 2012 - KDVR-TV Gessler, with his continued focus on eliminating voter fraud, has become a top target of Colorado Democrats, who believe the Republican is engaging in a less than subtle effort to reduce the number of minorities who actually vote in an effort to help GOP candidates. Read full article (KDVR-TV website)Keywords: election, fear mongering, minority voters, vote suppression Scott Gessler rule changes rejected, watchdog groups pleasedAugust 15, 2012 - Westword Secretary of State Scott Gessler wants to make it easier for political groups to remain secretive about their spending by rewriting election rules and weakening disclosure laws. That's according to two watchdog groups, who praise a court ruling that blocks most of Gessler's efforts. Denver District Court has struck down key campaign finance rule changes adopted earlier this year, but the case isn't closed yet: Gessler says he plans to appeal. Read full article (Westword website)Keywords: campaign finance, conflict of interest, election, special interest influence Judge rejects Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler's changesAugust 11, 2012 - Denver Post A Denver District Court judge has invalidated several — and upheld one — of the changes Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler made to campaign-finance regulations in March. Read full article (Denver Post website)Keywords: campaign finance, election, lawsuit, special interest influence Suthers Backs Gessler, asks Homeland Security to Screen VotersJuly 10, 2012 - Denver Post Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler is intensifying his efforts to root out and remove any noncitizens from the state's voter rolls before the November election — and this time, he has the backing of Attorney General John Suthers and top elections officials in 11 other states. Keywords: election, expanding government, vote suppression Scott Gessler: A 'Good Election' is when 'Republicans Win'June 26, 2012 - Huffington Post ColoradoPols.com unearthed a video of Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler talking about election integrity that may raise come eyebrows. 'So, obviously we have a big election coming up and everyone is -- properly so, I think -- very intensely involved, but there's always a lot of uptightness about it too, a lot of accusations being hurled about. So, let me talk a little bit about what we're looking at, at least from my perspective, in the election. I mean how do you know if you have a good election? Well, Republicans win, of course.' - Scott Gessler Read full article (Huffington Post website)Keywords: election, special interest influence, vote suppression Aspen election activist suing Colorado secretary of state over traceability of ballotsApril 03, 2012 - Real Aspen The challenges mounting on Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler's deskgo beyond whether to mail ballots to residents who haven't voted in a while. He has another predicament: bar codes. Keywords: election, lawsuit Colorado Democrats launch online petition drive against Secretary of State GesslerMarch 31, 2012 - The Denver Post
Days after calling for the removal of Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler, Colorado Democrats on Friday launched an online petition drive to bring attention to what party officials say is partisanship emanating from his office. "Many of the problems he has created are pretty technical. ... We will be able to gauge what further actions might be worth pursuing" based on the response to the petition, Colorado Democratic Party spokesman Matt Inzeo said in a statement. Keywords: conflict of interest, election, fear mongering, vote suppression Colorado Democrats want Secretary of State Scott Gessler removed from officeMarch 29, 2012 - The Denver Post Colorado Democrats unleashed some of their strongest criticism yet of Secretary of State Scott Gessler Wednesday, saying he should be removed from office afterhe opposed an election-related bill that was later killed by fellow Republicans. Keywords: campaign finance, conflict of interest, election, vote suppression Lawmakers consider eliminating ‘inactive voter’ statusFebruary 22, 2012 - Fox 31 Secretary of State Scott Gessler is currently facing litigation from several county clerks, including Denver’s for his directive that they mail ballots only to ‘active’ registered voters Read full article (Fox 31 website)Keywords: election, inactive voters, vote suppression Colorado Secretary of State Gessler nixes talk of run for governorFebruary 15, 2012 - The Denver Post
Democrats say they are thrilled with the idea of a Gessler candidacy, considering he has made headlines since taking office in 2011, from wanting to moonlight at his old law firm to boost his state salary to fighting with county clerks in his own party. "Instead of 'Coloradans for Gessler,' the committee should be called 'Coloradans Suing Gessler,' " joked House Minority Leader Mark Ferrandino of Denver. Keywords: conflict of interest, election Scott Gessler targeted by activist over voting in Saguache county and beyondFebruary 13, 2012 - The Westword The woman behind Citizen Center, a nonprofit organization that focuses on elections issues and more, is pushing Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler's office to hold a hearing prompted by her complaint about alleged voting irregularities in Saguache County. And today, she plans to announce a broader lawsuit focusing on Gessler and officials in several other counties. Read full article (The Westword website)Keywords: election, vote suppression Scott Gessler dubbed rock star by NPR, but he prefers being called Honey BadgerJanuary 18, 2012 - Westword Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler is a controversy magnet, with many progressive figures taking his name in vain. Example: a blistering October critique by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. But today, NPR, a news outfit frequently accused of liberal bias, sent the mega-conservative Gessler an audio love letter in which he's implicitly dubbed a rock star, as well as a honey badger. Hear it below. Read full article (Westword website)Keywords: election, special interest influence, vote suppression Gessler issues 2012 campaign-finance rules for ColoradoJanuary 06, 2012 - The Denver Post The legislature's Legal Services Committee voted this month not to include the rule in the annual list of rules approved by the General Assembly, saying Gessler had overstepped. Typically, that would have meant the rule would expire May 15, or sooner if an earlier legislative vote occurred. Read full article (The Denver Post website)Keywords: conflict of interest, election, expanding government Carroll admonishes Gessler in advance of campaign finance hearingDecember 15, 2011 - The Colorado Independent State Senator Morgan Carroll, D-Aurora, a strong advocate for campaign-finance transparency, Wednesday penned an open letter to Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler, asking him to rethink rules he is proposing that would dramatically thin laws governing political issue committee donation disclosure reporting (pdf). Gessler’s office is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the proposed rules today. Read full article (The Colorado Independent website)Keywords: campaign finance, election Critics say changes considered by Colorado Secretary of State Gessler would leave vote machines open to hackingDecember 08, 2011 - The Denver Post Read full article (The Denver Post website)Keywords: campaign finance, election Brown: Scott Gessler, meet Natalie MeyerDecember 02, 2011 - The Denver Post Scott Gessler is also a Republican, but he really ought to talk to Natalie Meyer about how to run the secretary of state's office. "I think he got off to a very bad start," Meyer says Read full article (The Denver Post website)Keywords: campaign finance, election, inactive voters, minority voters, vote suppression Media omission: Gessler promised to produce evidence of election “fraud,” but hasn’t delivered anyNovember 21, 2011 - Big Media Blog With no proof of election fraud here in Colorado, he may trot out evidence, Keywords: election, fear mongering, special interest influence, vote suppression Corrected Pueblo County inactive voter figures still highNovember 03, 2011 - The Colorado Independent Ortiz and other county clerks battled against Gessler’s new interpretation of state election law when he brought it out. Ortiz argued that Gessler’s order would force him to violate the federal Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act, which obligates county clerks to send ballots to all eligible voters in the military, active and inactive. Read full article (The Colorado Independent website)Keywords: election, vote suppression All-mail election nets record turnout for off-year contestNovember 03, 2011 - Aspen Daily News Taking into account “inactive” voters, those who did not cast ballots in the 2010 election and who Secretary of State Scott Gessler attempted to block from receiving mail ballots, the county turnout was 39 percent. Read full article (Aspen Daily News website)Keywords: election, vote suppression A Win for Voters is Gessler's Second LossOctober 10, 2011 - Huffington Post Secretary Gessler's position is that mail ballots should be sent only to voters who voted in the last election, or to those who contact the County Clerk in writing or show up in person at the election office to specifically tell the county that they would like to receive a mail ballot. This could have effectively prevented thousands of Denver residents who would otherwise vote from doing so -- in the last Denver mail-ballot election, 6,138 of the 55,023 voters who did not participate in the prior election voted when mail ballots were sent to them. Under Secretary Gessler's plan, all of them would have been out of luck. Secretary Gessler claims this step is necessary to prevent "fraud," but there is absolutely no factual or logical connection between skipping a single election and voter fraud. Read full article (Huffington Post website)Keywords: election, inactive voters, vote suppression Gessler: No to mailing ballots to inactive votersSeptember 30, 2011 - The Pueblo Chieftain U.S. Reps. Robert Brady, D-Pa., and Charles Gonzales, D-Texas, weighed in on the issue this week, sending a letter to the Justice Department that charged Gessler with trying to suppress voting in Denver County and Colorado. "What Secretary Gessler suggests is likely to disenfranchise eligible voters and should be condemned therefore," they wrote, adding they wanted an investigation of Gessler's actions. Read full article (The Pueblo Chieftain website)Keywords: election, inactive voters, minority voters, vote suppression Democrats say lawsuit against candidate was 'bogus' from the startOctober 25, 2006 - Rocky Mountain News A Republican attorney filed a campaign finance complaint against a Democratic state House candidate, then blasted her in a mailing paid for by the political attack group he set up. Democrats are crying foul, saying attorney Scott Gessler knew when he filed the complaint against Democrat Jeanne Labuda, of Denver, that it would be dismissed because he had waited too long before making his case. But they said he filed it anyway so he could mention the complaint in the mailing to voters in House District 1. Read full article (Rocky Mountain News website)Keywords: campaign finance, election, lawsuit, special interest influence |
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