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Scott Gessler is always right...right?January 10, 2013 - Westword At 9:36 a.m. on August 28, Minerva Padron, an administrative assistant to Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, answered a call to the office's election number. On the other end of the line was an agitated male who said he wanted to talk to someone about letters that Gessler had sent to nearly 4,000 registered voters whom he suspected might not be American citizens, urging the suspected immigrants to offer proof that they were legal citizens — or otherwise remove themselves from the voter rolls. Read full article (Westword website)Keywords: conflict of interest, fear mongering, inactive voters, partisan, self-payment, theft, vote suppression Immigration advocate, legal citizen gets Scott Gessler's non-citizen letterOctober 26, 2012 - Westword In the final weeks of the campaign, as we reported earlier today, Secretary of State Scott Gessler has continued his controversial anti-fraud campaign by tracking down individuals he believes are illegally registered to vote, because they are immigrants. Gessler sent them letters to 300 people asking them to verify their citizenship -- and yesterday, we reached one legal citizen who got the letter and is not happy about it, in part because he himself has done advocacy work around voter participation. Alan Kaplan, 35, has been a citizen since 2001. Read full article (Westword website)Keywords: fear mongering, glitches, vote suppression Michael Hancock: Scott Gessler's actions similar to nationwide voter-suppression effortsOctober 22, 2012 - Westword Even though Mayor Michael Hancock says he likes to give people the benefit of the doubt, he believes Secretary of State Scott Gessler's actions echo a concerted nationwide effort to suppress votes. The mayor weighed in on this topic last week, and while he declined to directly slam Gessler, he still came down hard on the controversial chief election officer, who has faced a steady stream of opposition in the final days before this year's election. Read full article (Westword website)Keywords: conflict of interest, fear mongering, minority voters, vote suppression Scott Gessler should be investigated for misuse of public funds, says Colorado Ethics WatchOctober 16, 2012 - Westword Scott Gessler is not only making it harder for people to vote, he's using public funds to help support the Republican Party. At least that's the charge of Colorado Ethics Watch, an advocacy group that is accusing the Secretary of State of spending public dollars to fund trips to political events. With a call for a criminal investigation, these allegations may be the most controversial Gessler has faced in the months before the election. Read full article (Westword website)Keywords: conflict of interest, fear mongering, vote suppression Secretary of State Scott Gessler: Left doesn't care about voter fraudOctober 05, 2012 - Denver Post Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler told a conservative audience Thursday that his critics really don't care about voter fraud and are "willing to lie" and "play the racism card." Gessler, a Republican, made his comments during a panel discussion Thursday titled, "Stealing Elections: What the Left Doesn't Want You to Know About Voter Fraud," held at a gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Denver. The secretary of state appeared on the voter fraud panel along with representatives of several conservative organizations, including True the Vote, a highly controversial group that styles itself as an elections integrity organization but which critics say uses voter intimidation tactics. Read full article (Denver Post website)Keywords: conflict of interest, fear mongering, minority voters, vote suppression Noncitizen voters ID'd fraction of those first alleged by GesslerSeptember 16, 2012 - Denver Post More than a year ago, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler said there could be in excess of 11,000 noncitizens registered to vote in Colorado and more than 4,000 of those who had cast ballots, and he has called noncitizen voter registration a "gaping hole" in the system. But earlier this month, Gessler, a Republican, announced that his office had found only 141 people who were noncitizens registered to vote out of 1,416 names run through a federal database, and of those 141, only 35 who had cast ballots. That number represents 0.001 percent of Colorado's 3.5 million registered voters. Read full article (Denver Post website)Keywords: fear mongering, minority voters, 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 PERRY: I VOTE FOR CHANGING GESSLER FROM ELECTIONS CHIEF BACK TO BEING PARTISAN GOP LAWYERSeptember 06, 2012 - Aurora Sentinel And the non-Christian, misguided, freedom-hating, government-bashing, communistic, left-leaning Colorado residents who don’t believe in the fundamental goodness of America are supposed to trust this Midwest carpet-bagging lawyer to be honest and fair in administrating election law? In a swing state with so much at stake in November, we’re supposed to believe that Gessler won’t morph into the notorious Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris on Election Day? Read full article (Aurora Sentinel website)Keywords: conflict of interest, fear mongering, minority voters, special interest influence, 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 U.S. citizens among those who got letters questioning right to voteAugust 29, 2012 - Denver Post The largest portion of the letters — 46 percent — went to unaffiliated voters, but 40 percent went to registered Democrats while only 12.5 percent went to Republicans. The remainder went to voters with other parties. The fact that more than three times as many Democrats got the letters as Republicans prompted those on the left to accuse Gessler, a Republican, of partisan motives. A controversial secretary of state, Gessler has clashed with Democrats and liberal groups many times since taking office in 2011. Read full article (Denver Post website)Keywords: conflict of interest, 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 Gessler’s proposed changes to election rules draw heated objectionsJuly 26, 2012 - Colorado Independent Over the course of a five-hour rulemaking hearing Monday, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler probably got the message that a lot of people are unhappy with proposed rules that would stop county clerks from mailing ballots to inactive voters in some elections, change the way canvass boards are selected and give county clerks more power to determine how much access election watchers have. Read full article (Colorado Independent website)Keywords: campaign finance, conflict of interest, expanding government, fear mongering, inactive voters, vote suppression House Dems To Gessler: You Don't Make The LawJuly 23, 2012 - Colorado Pols To briefly recap, a state law requiring that mail ballots be delivered to all registered voters with a valid address expired after the 2010 election cycle. Gessler lost in court last fall attempting to stop Denver and Pueblo counties from sending these ballots, after which several other Colorado counties joined them. This year, Gessler helped kill legislation that would have clarified the status of inactive voters statewide and ensured they got mail ballots--because the "uniformity" Gessler wanted was on the side of fewer ballots being delivered. Read full article (Colorado Pols website)Keywords: fear mongering, inactive voters, minority voters, vote suppression Homeland Security Says Gessler May Check Voter CitizenshipJuly 17, 2012 - Denver Post The Department of Homeland Security agreed Monday to let Colorado and other states access a DHS database to verify the citizenship of some registered voters — news that was hailed as a win for Secretary of State Scott Gessler and other Republican election officials but had their critics on high alert. Keywords: fear mongering, minority voters, vote suppression Gessler's 29 Maybe-Illegal Voters: Don't Take The BaitJuly 14, 2012 - Colorado Pols Which points back to yesterday's Denver paper, where reporter Sara Burnett covers a "spot check" done by Secretary of State Scott Gessler's office into the possibility of noncitizens being registered to vote. In his latest attempt to uncover what he insists in the absence of much evidence is a major problem, Gessler's office checked immigration detainees in Colorado with voter rolls, and found 85 persons who appear both in that list and a list of registered voters. Of that 85, some 29 are marked as "active" voters, meaning they appear to have voted since 2010. Read full article (Colorado Pols website)Keywords: expanding government, fear mongering, minority voters, vote suppression Gessler Searching for Illegal VotesJuly 13, 2012 - Denver Post Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler is investigating 85 people who may have been illegally registered to vote. A spokesman for Gessler says jail records are being checked for people being detained as illegal immigrants to see if they match names in the state's voter database Read full article (Denver Post website)Keywords: fear mongering, minority voters, vote suppression Wisconsin’s Walker echoes Colorado’s Gessler on voter fraudMay 21, 2012 - The Colorado Independent In the last two years, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has made voter fraud prevention a top priority. His efforts have included working to stop county clerks from sending absentee ballots to inactive voters, lobbying for a controversial voter ID law and leading an unprecedented effort to determine whether noncitizens are voting in the state. Read full article (The Colorado Independent website)Keywords: fear mongering, vote suppression James O'Keefe: Not Helping Scott GesslerMay 16, 2012 - ColoradoPols As you know, we (and others) have repeatedly debunked this persistent claim that "5,000 noncitizens may have voted" in the 2010 elections in Colorado. The claim originates with Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, who used this figure in congressional testimony, but it doesn't stand up to even casual scrutiny. As we noted and local media outlets realized last year, over thirty thousand Colorado residents became citizens during the period Gessler "analyzed," enough to easily account for the 5,000 "noncitizens" who "may" have voted in 2010. Read full article (ColoradoPols website)Keywords: fear mongering, vote suppression 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 Secretary of State Gessler asks Homeland Security to ID noncitizens on Colorado voter rollsMarch 17, 2012 - The Denver Post Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has asked the Department of Homeland Security to provide his office with the citizenship status of about 4,500 registered voters — his latest tactic in an ongoing effort to remove noncitizens from the state's voter rolls. Read full article (The Denver Post website)Keywords: fear mongering, minority voters, vote suppression Colorado county clerks baffled by Gessler ‘non-citizen voter registration’ claimsMarch 08, 2012 - The Colorado Independent “I really have no idea what he is talking about,” Republican Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Sheila Reiner told the Colorado Independent. Reiner was referring to allegations made again recently by Secretary of State Scott Gessler that non-citizens are registered to vote in the state. Read full article (The Colorado Independent website)Keywords: fear mongering, vote suppression Scott Gessler spokesmen reject voter suppression accusations against himMarch 08, 2012 - Westword "This time, however, Americans won't be faced with night sticks. They'll instead be faced with new laws written by the Republican legislature and the Secretary of State," Palacio said at a Monday press conference. Read full article (Westword website)Keywords: fear mongering, vote suppression Scott Gessler, in his own words...February 20, 2012 - The Colorado Statesman Secretary of State Scott Gessler is clearly no stranger to publicity. Even before being sworn into office in January of 2011, his name was familiar in political circles. The Democrats had Mark Grueskin as their top election law guru, Republicans in the state usually turned to their own cadre of leading experts, with Gessler at or near the top of their list. There were plenty of stories over the years which showcased Gessler’s ties to Republicans and the political organizations they formed to advance their causes. Read full article (The Colorado Statesman website)Keywords: campaign finance, conflict of interest, fear mongering, 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 Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler threatens to sue Denver over ballot flap involving inactive votersSeptember 19, 2011 - The Denver Post Jenny Rose Flanagan, director of Colorado Common Cause, was critical of Gessler."I think he's picking the wrong fight," she said. "These voters are eligible to vote and when we give them ballots, they vote." Read full article (The Denver Post website)Keywords: fear mongering, inactive voters, vote suppression Evidence of Illegal Voting From Gessler: Zip, Zilch, NadaJune 17, 2011 - Colorado Pols Folks, if this is what the Republican county clerks think, you can imagine how much credibility Gessler actually has on this issue. Somewhere between "none" and a strong suspicion of purposeful mendacity. We think the more that voters of all political persuasions understand about the flimsy case Gessler is basing these very serious allegations on, the worse this will look for Republicans in general: especially those who backed his related legislation this year. After all, nobody likes being terrorized without cause--or worse, with a very nasty ulterior motive. Read full article (Colorado Pols website)Keywords: fear mongering, minority voters, vote suppression |
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