Colorado has all mail-in ballots and mail-in ballots are much harder to prevent fraud than in person voting, based on the Bush/Carter study of election methods. So, how is Colorado monitoring our elections to prevent fraud? The only way to reduce fraud for mail-in ballots is signature verification and clean voter rolls. Any ballot mailed to a dead person or someone that has moved, is a potential fraudulent vote.

Colorado voter rolls are in bad shape and the state is being sued by Judicial Watch. Secretary of State Jena Griswold filed a motion to dismiss the case. If are rolls are clean, why would she do that? She lost and the case is proceeding. Reasons for the suit are that in 2019, 40 of 64 counties had voter registrations exceeding eligible voters. Colorado also is not removing ineligible registrations for moves in state or out of state and the deceased in a timely fashion.

Griswold has also not shown how she is monitoring the signature verification process. Fraud does occur. A friend moved to Wyoming and called in to cancel her registration during the mail-in period in 2020 and was informed that she had already voted. This is fraud and a failure of the signature verification process. Many fraudulent votes by the dead or moved voters have been reported. Griswold should publish a list by county of all these fraudulent votes so we can judge the true security of Colorado elections.

Tim Schowalter, Granby