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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 Raising money, Honey Badger styleOctober 19, 2012 - Denver Post In a fundraising letter sent by Coloradans for Gessler this week, the Republican secretary of state asks for donations to combat the “liberal left.” “If proactively cleaning up our state’s voting processes equates to being fearless and driven, then the Honey Badger nickname is one I can live with,” Gessler says in the letter. “Liberal politicians are willing to turn a blind eye toward voter fraud — and that’s something I will not accept.” Read full article (Denver Post website)Keywords: conflict of interest, minority voters, 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 Scott Gessler to share conservative voter-fraud panel with controversial True the Vote groupOctober 02, 2012 - Westword Secretary of State Scott Gessler likes to say that it should be easy to vote and tough to cheat, but his critics argue that he is a lot more focused on the latter -- especially when it comes to voters who aren't Republican. While Gessler has tried to disprove those accusations, his appearance this week at a conservative voter-fraud panel is not doing much to appease critics. Keywords: conflict of interest, minority voters, special interest influence, vote suppression Scott Gessler registration drive errors cause confusion, more voter suppression claimsSeptember 20, 2012 - Westword This is not quite how Scott Gessler's plan was supposed to go. When Colorado's Secretary of State announced an unprecedented voter registration initiative last month, he told reporters that the effort wasn't a direct response to criticisms of voter suppression, though he said it would hopefully disprove accusations that he is intimidating voters. But now, some county clerks and voters are saying errors in mailers sent out through the registration campaign are causing more harm than good. Read full article (Westword website)Keywords: glitches, 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 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 Gessler aide: Homeland Security 'stalling' on Colorado voter checksJune 01, 2012 - VivaColorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler's office accused the Department of Homeland Security today of using "stall tactics" to prevent Colorado from verifying the citizenship status of about 4,500 registered voters Read full article (VivaColorado website)Keywords: minority voters, 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 Our Secretary of State as a Punch LineMarch 08, 2012 - The Huffington Post Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has become a punch line. I witnessed this recently in a local restaurant. I heard "Scott Gessler" across the room, followed by peals of laughter. No joke. I follow the secretary of state closely because of his self-described attempts to "further the conservative agenda" and voter suppression efforts that match those of the national Republican Party. Read full article (The Huffington Post website)Keywords: ballot initiatives, campaign finance, minority voters, special interest influence, 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 Colorado lawmakers won’t push ‘proof of citizenship’ bill this sessionJanuary 23, 2012 - The Colorado Independent Colorado lawmakers who last year introduced legislation to address claims that perhaps thousands of undocumented residents had voted in the state will not re-introduce the legislation this year. Secretary of State Scott Gessler reportedly waved off the lawmakers, saying he felt he could address the issue outside the halls of the capitol with means available to him through his office. Read full article (The Colorado Independent website)Keywords: minority voters, vote suppression CO's Scott Gessler a New Type of Secretary of StateJanuary 18, 2012 - Colorado Public Radio In the year since his election, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has grabbed a lot of headlines. He’s part of an activist trend nationwide that’s transforming the office from an administrative role to something with a much higher profile. Colorado Public Radio’s Megan Verlee reports. Read full article (Colorado Public Radio website)Keywords: minority voters, moonlighting, vote suppression Limiting people from politics hurts us allJanuary 01, 2012 - The Pueblo Chieftain Since his election last January, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has been at the forefront of the battle on influencing the political landscape. In his short tenure, Gessler has proposed overreaching legislation to limit voting, made unsubstantiated claims of illegal voting, ordered county clerks not to send ballots to “inactive” eligible voters (even overseas military voters) and proposed rules that would allow unlimited special interest money to influence our elections. Read full article (The Pueblo Chieftain website)Keywords: minority voters, vote suppression 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 Turnout by Colorado voters listed as "inactive" rises after disputeNovember 02, 2011 - The Denver Post Those ballots were sent out after a months-long battle between Secretary of State Scott Gessler and Denver Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson over whether to mail them. Read full article (The Denver Post website)Keywords: inactive voters, minority voters, vote suppression Inactive voters playing major role in Pueblo County electionNovember 01, 2011 - The Colorado Independent Gessler’s order would have disproportionately affected minority voters. Gessler unveiled his new interpretation of state election law in September, just weeks before Election Day, telling clerks it was illegal for them to send ballots to inactive voters. Read full article (The Colorado Independent website)Keywords: inactive voters, minority voters, vote suppression Rep. Charlie Gonzalez wants Justice Department to probe military ballot controversySeptember 30, 2011 - My San Antonio A Texas congressman urged the Justice Department to investigate actions by the Colorado secretary of state that he says will deny active duty military personnel the right to vote. Read full article (My San Antonio website)Keywords: inactive voters, minority 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 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. 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