lynn bartels

Colorado’s county clerks choose a new clerk in chief

Jan 24, 2018

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

…OK, so that’s not actually her new title; to be precise, Chaffee County Clerk Lori Mitchell is the new president of the Colorado County Clerks Association. It’s quite an honor considering she was chosen by her fellow clerks, who ensure the integrity of elections in each of Colorado’s counties. They keep the democratic process running smoothly…
Leave it to Lynn Bartels to analyze Hick’s oratorical record through the bottom of a beer mug

Jan 16, 2018

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

…Which is of course not to say the media maven and messaging manager for Secretary of State Wayne Williams was drinking an IPA when she penned an enlightening blog post the other day about the number of beer references in Gov. John Hickenlooper’s State of the State speeches over the years. But it’s probably safe…
Let’s say it again: Every vote counts. Here’s why …

Nov 29, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

It wasn’t long ago that Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams penned a “Podium” commentary for us, pointing out for us how every vote can be pivotal. And leave it to the elections watchdogs at Williams’s office to provide us not one but 14 – yes, fourteen – examples from just this past election. As…
National Voter Registration Day — by the numbers

Oct 5, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Leave it to veteran newshound Lynn Bartels – now of course the communications chief for Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams – to follow up with some hard data from last week’s celebration of National Voter Registration Day. In a nutshell, the unaffiliated voters carried the day – as is increasingly the case in Colorado…
Colorado’s election system — leading the way for some other states

Sep 11, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Noteworthy on Lynn Bartels’s blog last week: a piece by her fellow Secretary of State’s Office staffer, Julia Sunny, on a visit from an Alaskan delegation studying Colorado’s success with mail ballots. Alaska is considering a move to all-mail balloting, Sunny reports. Included was this nugget: Colorado is one of the top five states in the…
Let’s give the Denver Rustlers an encore, courtesy of Lynn Bartels

Aug 31, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

ColoradoPolitics.com’s Joey Bunch gave you an eyeful of the Denver Rustlers in his coverage of the civic group’s annual ride Tuesday from the Queen City of the Prairie to the sultry Steel City, home of the Colorado State Fair. Yet, no coverage of the annual charitable event – involving Colorado’s political potentates and business big…
Election officials slam Kobach claim that Colorado voters canceling registration might be felons, non-citizens

Jul 15, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Election officials on Friday tore into a suggestion by the co-chair of a White House commission on election fraud that Colorado voters withdrawing their registration might have something to hide. After Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the Republican vice chair of the bipartisan Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, asked for extensive voter registration data…
Democrat Jena Griswold scolds Secretary of State Wayne Williams for bowing to voter data request

Jul 14, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Democratic Secretary of State candidate Jena Griswold blasted Republican incumbent Wayne Williams on Friday for agreeing to go along with a White House election commission’s request for voter data even as privacy advocates challenged its legality and thousands of Colorado voters were canceling their registrations. But a spokeswoman for Williams said the secretary has simply…
Federal election commission puts a hold on request for Colorado voter data

Jul 11, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The White House election commission that’s caused such a stir with its request for troves of voter data from every state hit the pause button Monday. In an email delivered to Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams and other election officials across the country, an officer with the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity told officials to…
Legislative Black Caucus calls on state to reject Trump’s voter data request

Jul 6, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

The Colorado legislature’s Democratic Black Caucus formally asked Secretary of State Wayne Williams not to play ball with President Trump’s election integrity commission Thursday. A week ago Williams said he would provide only publicly available data and shield personal voter information. “While Trump and Republicans in Washington continue to peddle this false narrative of illegal votes in…