Colorado Voter Group

The Colorado Voter Group is working for trustworthy election systems.  
 
Current transparency and accountability projects:
   
- 2008 Methodology & Technology

- Election System Certification
- Registration & Administration - SCORE
- Election System Security
 
Click to read oversight progress.

11/19 Colorado Voter Group calls for polling place elections.

- Framework for 2008 elections

- Press release

- Challenge to county clerk

Colorado is under a court order to recertify all voting systems.

NEW 12/11 Multiple meetings set to address voting system certification results.
SOS Coffman will announce certification results on December 17th. Click to read the schedule of certification meetings.

Canvass boards refused opportunity to speak.
- Clerks and Vendors 12/17/07
- Legislative Task Force 12/18/07 Senate majority leader Ken Gordon denied the request.
- Joint Budget Committee 12/20/07 JBC chair Bernie Buescher denied the request.

Open records access blocked.
- Department refuses to discuss records.
- Department refuses to admit public to decision-making meetings.
- Department prevents public oversite.
- Questions raised by canvass board representatives, poll watchers, and technology experts ignored.

Statewide voter registration database and election administration system is not ready. 

System released to production anyway.  

- An untested and incomplete version is released to production.

- System does not meet canvass board and poll watcher requirements.

- Election results cannot be verified.

Click to read oversight activities and the actual testing status reports.

Open records attempts fail.

- Department of State refused to discuss records.

Colorado's systems security approach is based on disproven "security through obscurity" theory.

Colorado Voter Group is using the open records process, attempting to analyze the scope of Colorado's election security plans and procedures.  Click to learn about Colorado's election security.   

Trust but verify!

Growing public distrust of elections has reached a potentially dangerous level -- inviting public disobedience.
 
The people's gripe?  Colorado's election system cannot be trusted because it lacks transparency and accountability, and it cannot be verified. 
 
Colorado Voter Group's independently-recruited team of specialists provide truly independent oversight of Colorado's election system.

Colorado computer voting machines are not certified.

Click to read how Colorado election officials are:
• Encouraging election fraud by the use of mail ballots.

• Counting our votes in a backroom using computers they don't understand; whose performance and accuracy can't be certified; and that have consistently failed in past elections.

• Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on private vendors and election officials who have repeatedly been discredited and convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors.

10/12 State to fix computers

Colorado Governor announces new centralized information technology approach to stop the bleeding.

Governor sets up panel of technology experts.