By Neil Vigdor, New York Times In Wisconsin, one of the nation’s key swing states, cameras and plexiglass now fortify the reception area of a county election office in Madison, the capital, after a man wearing camouflage and a mask tried to open locked doors during an election in April. In another bellwether area, Maricopa …
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By Molly Bohannon, The Pueblo Chieftain Colorado is regularly recognized for having some of the most inclusive voting policies in the country, from universal mail-in ballots to allowing felons to vote the day they step out of prison. And expanding election security and accessibility has been a focus for nearly a decade. So in the …
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By Thomas Rutherford, Yellow Scene Magazine About a week ago, my publisher asked if I would be interested in interviewing Jena Griswold, Colorado’s Secretary of State, and I leapt at the opportunity. Griswold is a unique figure in Colorado politics in that she is the youngest Secretary of State in the United States, the first …
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By Adam Edelman, NBC Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold was in a constant state of motion Tuesday night as she awaited the primary election results that would determine her opponent in her re-election contest this fall. Moving through her downtown office building, Griswold, who ran unopposed for the Democratic Party’s renomination, checked in with her Rapid …
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By Nick Corasaniti and Davey Alba, New York Times Like so many modern election sagas, it started with a tweet. In 2019, Jena Griswold, the newly installed secretary of state in Colorado, saw a tweet falsely claiming that her state’s election system had been hacked, using a picture of voting equipment as evidence. “It wasn’t equipment that we …
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by Shane Monaghan, 5280 On June 17, 2021, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold took a stand against election deniers. Then the death threats started pouring in. Early that morning, Griswold’s office issued rules prohibiting third parties from accessing voting equipment in the state to conduct what she called “sham audits” of election results. The announcement …
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Denver, CO – Kyla Sabado, Griswold’s Campaign Manager, released the following statement in response to reports that Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters received 60.67% percent of the vote at the Colorado GOP Assembly, emerging as the front-runner for the GOP nomination: “After the results of today’s GOP state assembly, it’s clear that Tina Peters has …
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