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New Twitter rules expose election offices to spoof accounts

Election administrators across the United States say they’re concerned their offices will be targeted for fake Twitter accounts that'll confuse or mislead voters after the social media platform changed its long-standing verification service

The Independent UK

Parties settle in Colorado voter registration lawsuit

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) and advocacy group Judicial Watch agreed to settle a lawsuit over the state’s voter registration list maintenance on March 31, 2023.

Ballotpedia

The price of a ballot signature is way up, and experts worry it's encouraging fraud

A scandal affecting Michigan Republicans last year highlighted instances of suspected fraud in the signature-gathering process. Some states are now looking to crack down on bad actors.

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Colorado’s top election official wants to limit who can get a recount. A top Democrat thinks it’ll backfire

DENVER — Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has called on lawmakers to limit the use of discretionary recounts in state elections to only close races, arguing that the current system allows for “bad actors” to inject doubts into often settled races.

The Denver Post

The fight against election lies never ends for local officials

State and local election officials across the country have begun pursuing strategies to combat election lies ahead of the 2024 presidential election: They’re meeting with community organizations, posting social media videos and even inviting skeptics to visit election offices in efforts to “pre-bunk” falsehoods they know are coming.

Tribune News Service

Top state officials push to make spread of US election misinformation illegal

Advocates insist proposed laws will not affect first-amendment protected speech, amid swirl of misinformation around elections

The Guardian - US

Colorado’s record number of new business filings a sign confidence in economy still strong

Leaving multiple unfilled jobs openings behind them and ignoring the economic storm clouds ahead of them, Coloradans filed to create a record number of new businesses last quarter, according to a report Monday from the Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds Business Research…

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Federal effort to boost election worker protections fizzles

Federal proposals that would have significantly boosted security funding for election offices and heightened penalties for threatening their staff failed to advance this year

The Independent UK

Lauren Boebert officially wins race against Adam Frisch, recount confirms

DENVER — Now weeks after the November midterm elections and Colorado’s Secretary of State announced that U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert did indeed win her race against Adam Frisch, if only by a few hundred votes.

The Denver Post

Recount ordered in ultra-tight 3rd Congressional District race as Lauren Boebert clings to narrow lead

DENVER — Secretary of State Jena Griswold ordered a mandatory recount in the 3rd Congressional District race on Wednesday, saying the margin of difference is so slight between Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and her Democratic opponent, Adam Frisch, that the ballots need a second tally.

The Denver Post

Man arrested on suspicion of tampering with voting machine

A Colorado man who is a registered Democratic voter has been arrested on suspicion of tampering with voting equipment in an incident in which the man is accused of inserting a USB thumb drive into a voting machine during the primary election in June

The Independent UK

Colorado continues to lean toward Democrats, new poll shows

DENVER — A new poll by a left-leaning group indicates Colorado Democrats have comfortable leads in several statewide races heading into Election Day, as the party looks to buck historical midterm voting trends.

The Denver Post

Races to oversee elections draw an avalanche of spending

Campaign spending is setting records in races to oversee state elections

The Independent UK

Commentary: To defeat election denialism, we need partisans out of election management

The threat could hardly be clearer: Some candidates for secretary of state deny the verified outcome of the 2020 election, raising serious questions about whether they’ll reject results – and the rule of law – if they gain office.

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The Conversation

Good faith and the honor of partisan election officials used to be enough to ensure trust in voting results – but not anymore

As the U.S. moves closer to the 2022 midterm elections, a sizable number of Americans express a lack of confidence in the accuracy of the vote count.

The Independent UK

Colorado: 30,000 noncitizens got vote registration mailer

Colorado’s secretary of state’s office says it mistakenly sent postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens encouraging them to register to vote

The Independent UK

18 months in prison for man who threatened Colorado official

A Nebraska man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for online threats he made last year against Colorado’s top elections official in one of the first cases brought by a federal task force devoted to protecting elections workers across the U.S. who have been subject to increasing threats

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Nasa to launch rocket that can take humans to the moon

Test flight part of plan to return humans to the moon – and eventually Mars. Plus, the people who can’t stop daydreaming

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The Independent UK

‘Evolving and deepening’ antidemocratic threats could ignite election chaos, officials and experts warn

Secretaries of state and voting rights experts warn against an explosion of legislation to ‘subvert’ election outcomes and a wave of prominent election deniers running for office

Axios

Colorado secretary of state says "extreme" GOP might strip Americans' voting rights

"The country could lose the right to vote in less than three months."

The Guardian - US

‘The US could lose the right to vote’: top official’s democracy warning

Jena Griswold urges Americans to pay attention to crucial but often overlooked races for secretary of state

The Independent UK

Recount confirms that indicted Colorado clerk lost election

Colorado's secretary of state says a statewide recount has confirmed that an indicted county clerk who alleged voting fraud lost her primary election last month

The Denver Post

The results are in — again: Tina Peters lost her GOP primary election for secretary of state nomination

A recount of votes in the GOP primary for Colorado secretary of state shows what election officials knew to be true from the first round of counting: Tina Peters, an election denier, did not come close to winning her primary election.

The Independent UK

Abortion access finds a place even in down-ballot campaigns

Some Democratic candidates in statewide down-ballot races have decided to make abortion access key to their campaigns

The Independent UK

Amid threats, security rises at meetings of public officials

Threats against election officials in the U.S. have risen to such a level that those attending a conference this week in Wisconsin were not given the agenda until after they arrived, were warned not to wear their name tags in public and were shuttled to an undisclosed location for trivia…

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