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Rich Coolidge 
Tue Nov 15, 2011 at 11:08:57 AM MST
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My search for an explanation from Scott Gessler about why he's been telling the media there's actual "fraud" in Colorado elections bore fruit last night, when I asked him about it after he gave a lecture at Colorado Christian University's Centennial Institute, which run by former Senate President John Andrews.
I asked Gessler about his statement, on a radio show in September, that there was actual fraud among mail ballots returned by inactive voters in Denver.
He said he was "not quite sure" he made this statement about the last election. He didn't. He was referring to the 2009 municipal election, but the same question applies: Was there actual fraud, like he said?
In the radio interview, Gessler said there was a "pretty high incidence of fraud" in Denver's 2009 election among ballots returned by inactive voters. Listen to Gessler's Sept. 30 radio statement here.
Regarding 2009, Gessler told me last night:
Gessler: I think if you look at Denver, though, you'll see in 2009, for a large number of folks, the signatures didn't match. I think that's an indicium of fraud, right there, when the signatures don't match.
Jason: It's an indication of fraud, but you wouldn't say that it's fraud, would you?
Gessler: I said it's an indicium of fraud. It very well may be. It's not been fully investigated, to my knowledge.
After Gessler alleged fraud in Denver elections in September, Denver's Clerk and Recorder denied the accusation, and the head of the Secretary of State's election division later testified that he was not aware of any fraud relating to ballots mailed to inactive voters.
No talk show host or reporter that I know of asked Gessler what actual factual fraud he was talking about, so I tried to fill in the gap and ask his office, but I got no comment. Until last night.
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Wed Oct 19, 2011 at 06:28:16 AM MST
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For weeks, I've been asking Secretary of State Scott Gessler's media people if Gessler was serious when he said, in a radio interview, that "fraud exists" in Denver elections, and when, on another occasion, Gessler implied that there's election fraud in Denver.
I've left lots of messages and gotten no response.
This surprised me, truly, because you'd think the Secretary of State would want to make it clear either way.
If he thinks there is really fraud, that's obviously a huge problem that every active, inactive, and dead voter should hear about.
If there's no fraud, then we should hear this, to put us at ease since Gessler previously said there was fraud.
So I was overjoyed Tuesday when I got Gessler's media spokesperson Rich Coolidge, instead of an answering machine, when I called his direct line in Gessler's press office.
But disappointment followed....
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