Denver November 2004 Election
The Rocky Mountain News is investigating the allegations of voter fraud here in Colorado [October 15, 2004, "Faulty voter applications are blamed on workers"]. From the article, "Sneaky voter-drive employees are to blame for submitting hundreds of faulty registration applications in Colorado, said an official with the nonprofit organization that mobilized the effort. These workers were able to thwart the drive's system of checks and balances, said Jim Fleischmann, regional coordinator of the voting registration effort of the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now, commonly known as ACORN."
Bill Johnson puts the alleged voter fraud into context in his column in today's Rocky Mountain News [October 15, 2004, "Johnson: Davidson's rhetoric calls for a little reality check"]. He writes, "It isn't until much later in the newspaper stories that you learn that she and county clerks across Colorado have turned up maybe 1,000 instances of "questionable" voter-registration irregularities, which she has turned over to state Attorney General Ken Salazar. One thousand? Excuse me? What I did next was part of that educational/sanity check. I pulled up an earlier story that said more than 300,000 new voters registered to participate in the Nov. 2 presidential election, half doing so in the past 30 days."
Colorado Luis "So what does Donetta Davidson do? Well naturally, she schedules a closed door meeting with lawyers for the Bush-Cheney campaign to talk about the rules for the upcoming election -- some of which have yet to be issued by her office. Meanwhile, the Republicans, desperate to take attention away from the growing fraud scandal in Nevada, where voter registration circulators associated with the Republican National Committee are accused of destroying hundreds of registration forms where the voter marked "Democrat" as their party preference, are willfully misconstruing a Colorado Kerry-Edwards campaign publication as calling for false claims of voter intimidation. (When the Rocky Mountain News is relying on the Drudge Report for a story, you know the Republicans are getting desperate.)"
Westword, as always, asks the tough questions of Peter Coors and Ken Salazar.
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