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(2,012 posts)
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 10:17 PM Oct 2012

Colorado's voting mess

Rachel Maddow spent a large part of her show tonight detailing the huge problems which have come about in Colorado around registration and voting, almost all the fault of our Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler. After spending a lot of state money on glossy tv commercials urging people to register, when they tried the phone process didn't work and they were sent to the GVote computer site which didn't work either. The last day to register 800 people were lost and we may have as many as 10,000 people who think they are registered but may not be. Being one of the closest swing states in the nation you can imagine how scary it is that we may be the Florida of 2012.

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Colorado's voting mess (Original Post) locks Oct 2012 OP
Scott Gessler... Samjm Oct 2012 #1
Loathe Here Too otohara Oct 2012 #3
AP Has Up Gessler Found 300 Illegal Voters otohara Oct 2012 #2
Here's the piece from Maddow Samjm Oct 2012 #4
I doubt Yall will be the FL of 2012 RomneyLies Oct 2012 #5

Samjm

(320 posts)
1. Scott Gessler...
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 10:27 PM
Oct 2012

MUST go in 2014! I can not wait to vote him out of office. He's been on my personal political "must go" list since he challenged my right to vote because I wasn't born here.

Loathe the man and all the crap he's tried to pull this cycle.

 

otohara

(24,135 posts)
3. Loathe Here Too
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 10:53 PM
Oct 2012

I voted today and gone were the machines of 2004, 08, 10 elections ... brand new machines gave me chills - I live in Denver - in a very liberal hood.

He is out to scrub Dem voters and will stop at nothing to do it!

 

otohara

(24,135 posts)
2. AP Has Up Gessler Found 300 Illegal Voters
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 10:50 PM
Oct 2012

two frigging weeks before the election - this guy is as crooked as it gets.

A liberal group has asked that Gessler be investigated for taking $1400.00 petty cash acct without receipts and he whines that the Denver Post is on a "jihad" against him. I want to kick this GOP piggy with my brace!

The Westword said he found 14 last week, and now it's 300!

I'm not buying it!

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