voter fraud

Former Rep. Tracey Bernett pleads guilty to residency fraud charges

Feb 10, 2023

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Marianne Goodland

Former state Rep. Tracey Bernett, D-Louisville, pleaded guilty Friday to charges related to residency fraud and received a deferred sentence and two-years probation, according to a news release. Prosecutors charged Bernett last year with falsifying her residency in order to run for re-election to House District 12. Bernett was elected in 2020 to represent HD12,…
Steve Lebsock calls it ‘disgusting’ that foes just want to ’score political points’ bashing Lori Saine

Dec 9, 2017

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Ernest Luning

State Rep. Steve Lebsock, the Thornton Democrat facing complaints he sexually harassed a fellow lawmaker and a former lobbyist, on Friday chastised social media denizens who’ve been heaping criticism on state Rep. Lori Saine, the Firestone Republican arrested and jailed this week at Denver International Airport for bringing a loaded handgun to a security checkpoint.…
Michael Bennet, fellow Democrats call for investigation into Trump voter fraud commission

Oct 19, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Citing concerns about its “partisan motives and actions,” U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado and two of his fellow Democrats on Wednesday called for an independent investigation into the commission on election fraud established by President Trump. In a letter to the Government Accountability Office, Bennet and U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Cory…
Michael Bennet, Cory Booker call for audit of White House commission on election fraud

Sep 18, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Democratic Senators Michael Bennet of Colorado and Cory Booker of New Jersey introduced legislation Friday to require a government audit of the White House commission on election fraud, calling the controversial panel a “sham” and charging it was wasting taxpayer money. “There is simply no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the United States,” Bennet said…
1990s Colorado GOP chief pleads not guilty to voter fraud, faces December trial

Aug 10, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Onetime state GOP chair, conservative stalwart and talk-radio host Steve Curtis – charged in March with voter fraud and forgery in Weld County for allegedly casting his ex-wife’s mail-in ballot in last November’s election – will go to trial Dec. 4. The Greeley Tribune’s James Redmond reports Curtis pleaded not guilty in District Court in Greeley Wednesday to…
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…
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams: Russia didn’t tinker with the vote even if it interfered with election

Jun 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Secretary of State Wayne Williams wants to make it clear that even though the Russians might have interfered with last year’s U.S. election, that doesn’t mean the hostile country tampered with ballots or vote totals. Responding to a story posted online Thursday about U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s recent town hall in Frisco, Williams sent Colorado…
Former Colorado GOP chair Steve Curtis faces voter fraud charges after allegedly filling out ex-wife’s ballot

Mar 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Just days before allegedly forging his former wife’s signature on a mail ballot and fraudulently voting in the November election, Steve Curtis, a former Colorado Republican Party chairman, railed against the “crooked Democrats” and their propensity to commit voter fraud in an hour-long interview on the conservative morning radio talk show he hosts. “We’re going…
Former state GOP chief Steve Curtis charged with forging ex’s ballot

Mar 22, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Steve Curtis has been off the statewide radar for a number of years since leading Colorado Republicans in the 1990s, maintaining a more modest profile as a talk-show host on Denver’s KLZ-560 AM radio. Now his name is back in the news, and in a way, it involves politics once again: He has been charged with…
Forget Chicago Democrats. Colorado Springs Republicans can vote from the grave too.

Mar 9, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

However much truth there once may have been to the tales of big-city machine politicians summoning whole graveyards, zombie-like, to the polls, the prevailing wisdom is it’s by and large a thing of the past. Certainly, we all hope so, and it is reassuring there is little if any evidence nowadays that a lot of people who shouldn’t be voting, dead or…