By: Tom Tancredo
Democrat politicians and their PR firm, Big Media, never tire of bemoaning what they call President Trump’s “Big Lie,” his belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. For concrete evidence of the Big Lie, they point to Colorado, a state widely touted as the Gold Standard in election integrity. Since Trump lost the nine Electoral College votes of the “Gold Standard State” by a whopping ten points, it is laughable to claim he won nationally “in a landslide.”
So goes the Big Media narrative. Their “Gold Standard” rhetoric certainly helps debunk Trump’s claim of election chicanery – but as a Coloradan with a ton of experience with Colorado’s election system, I call it a pile of pyrite. That’s the mineral commonly called fool’s gold: it glitters and shines like gold but, upon closer inspection, it is worthless.
The “Gold Standard” myth is hawked by Colorado election officials of both parties but is coming under closer scrutiny by state lawmakers, who in December held a Legislative Audit Committee public hearing with more than 15 witnesses. No one with an open mind who listened to the full nine hours of expert public testimony left that hearing with more confidence in Colorado’s “Gold Standard” than before the event.
If the gold plating on the capitol dome ever has to be replaced, election officials should not be allowed near the project. I sure hope Texas and the other 48 are aiming for platinum, not the fool’s gold being sold by Big Media.
I noticed early in my political career that many of the public officials who run elections tend to be thin-skinned, self-congratulatory paragons of virtue signaling, passionate in defense of their vote totals, no matter how many hundreds of college students on local state university campuses are registered both at their school dorm addresses and also at their parents’ address 1500 miles away in Oregon or Vermont.
But, hey, 99 percent accuracy is good enough 99 percent of the time, right? Is your golf scorecard 100 percent accurate 100 percent of the time? Elections are more important than golf scores, so why do we avoid adopting standards that would effectively halt 99.99 percent of vote fraud? Like photo ID, for example? Oh, I forgot: 75 percent of voters now cast a ballot by mail and not in person, so a photo ID is obsolete. Given that, is cleaning up the voter registration rolls a top priority of Colorado election officials? Nope.
Okay, so how do we verify the identity of the person claiming to be an eligible and legally registered voter when they cast one of the two million mail-in ballots? Signature verification!
Except, wait… have you looked at how signature verification really works in Colorado? An election official looks at the signature on the ballot envelope and compares it to the image of the registered voter’s signature on record. How close does it have to be to pass muster? The answer is… it depends. Hint: It’s not a scientific process, and secondly, it was never designed to handle millions of signatures in the space of a few hours.
Oh, and if you think “poll watchers” provided by major political parties are on the scene to catch mistakes, think again. In November of 2020, Republican-appointed and trained poll watchers were barred from dozens of vote counting sites by local officials.
“Nothing to see here. Move along.”
But why quibble over a few dozen or a few hundred incidents when millions of votes are being counted by machines that are not politically biased. Right? Okay, except that a machine can have a bias programmed into it by… a biased programmer. Of course, we know that never happens, right? After all, those machines are always available for inspection and audit afterward, and partisan officials never interfere with those audits, right? Ooops.
Sometimes I worry more about a different kind of corruption of election standards. I remember being told many times in school that a citizen has a duty to “study the issues” and become “well informed on the issues” in order to cast an intelligent ballot. What happened to that concept of civic duty? When did the simple act of voting become more important than casting an intelligent ballot? When did the goal of 100 percent turnout by all “eligible voters” — a purely statistical concept that is now widely defined to include convicted murderers and rapists — become the new test of a state’s civic virtue?
Be of good cheer, though; it could be worse. At least we still have the standard of one man, one vote. No one gets two votes because of higher IQ, celebrity status, or compensation (reparations) for something that happened to their great-great-great-grandfather. Not yet. Surely, in a state both CNN and President In Name Only Joe Biden call the Gold Standard in election integrity, such bastardization of elections could never happen. Oh, wait… never mind.
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Having done my share of election fraud investigations in Colorado, I can assure you that there is fraud! We only saw cases that were referred to us from elections….there had to be many many more that never made it to us. As to the signature verification, they compare the new signature from the previous election ballot signature. So, once its forged, it will be the basis of signature verification in the next election, even if its a scribble. Also, lets say someone moved or passed away, the mail ballots are still delivered or perhaps returned to the post office where they can be opened and filled out by an untrustworthy postal worker. Those may not be caught in the signature verification process. I go back to when we voted on marijuana in 2006 (I believe). It was overwhelmingly NO! 6 years later it was overwhelmingly YES? Its not like we had a huge influx of “out of staters” during that time. Our economy and housing was pretty depressed then. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
Replace voting by mail with internet voting. Verification by token or double code verification and issued only to registered legal citizens. Legally verified citizens.
I feel that we can’t have too many voter ID requirements. Speaking for myself, I’m 85 years old and my signature this year looks appallingly different than last year due to some neurological problems, so no one could verify me by that alone. I’d want my photo and driver’s license to be called into use. I’m just one person. How many others are in this fix?
Thank you Tom Trancredo, Election Fraud in Colorado and the Nation is my BIGGEST CONCERN.
Yes I do agree that there is a lot of election fraud here in Colorado and all over the United States I was on the nextdoor app in Colorado springs and all the people on there were saying we didn’t vote for this or that why would Colorado vote to raise taxes and so many other questions on why things were past that no one in their right mind would vote on ,and of course the posts were removed because they don’t want people talking about how Democrats in office are trying to scam us so Facebook would remove that immediately off of nextdoor app and it’s all a big fraud whatever they want to go through from the government goes through our votes don’t count it’s all fraud and I just don’t know how we’re going to get past this with criminals like Governor polis and all the left wing criminals, that are lying and cheating and scamming and frauding to get their way !!!!
I have long suspected that our elections in Colorado were not “the gold standard” as portrayed. With Dominion voting systems having offices in Denver, and the fact that once Colorado went to mail in voting only, we turned solid blue, I feel there is definitely shenanigans going on. I would be very interested in a forensic audit happening here too. What can we do to see about making that happen?
We need Colorado Lawyers to sue the crooked criminals in charge! I sat in on the hearing and at the end one woman had to go to the bathroom five minutes before it was to be over! It was getting to the kitty gritty and so meeting cut short! There is no gold standard! Dominion changed our votes and the will not allow for an audit cause they are guilty! Trifecta criminal democrats are doing everything they want because dominion changed votes for 10 years!
Yes, a citizen has a duty to be well-informed to vote intelligently on people and issues, but how many illegal and dead people can meet this standard? Well, there were certainly a lot of those voters in the last election and yet judges and state and federal officials sniffed at the facts, ignored how Republican poll watchers were barred, and permitted two total frauds to be seated at the very top of our government. I’m tired of feeling like I’ve been molested by the people who are supposed to be looking after me and my rights. Anybody else feel that way? Hopefully there will be more than one Tom Tancredo to speak up on our behalf. Better say some pretty powerful prayers for him!
Anyone with a bit of common sense believes these elections are rigged! President Trump lost Colorado by 4 % in 2016 and by 14 % in 2020, yeah, right! Ridiculous!
We don’t usually have too many comments about our gold standard voting. I live in Colorado Springs and I do believe we have voter fraud here too. I used to think that we were the paragon of honesty here. Not so much anymore do I think this. Thank you Tom for bringing this out. I do not trust anyone as my vote was accepted but never counted. I checked numerous times only to get the same answer.