Voter Roll Irregularities, Lakewood Rezoning Fight, and Election Record Battles

On the March 26, 2026 broadcast, Kim Monson examines election integrity from multiple angles with Rick Richards on voter roll data problems, Karen Gordey on the Lakewood rezoning special election, Mary Janssen on Colorado legislation, Karen Levine on the metro Denver real estate market, Susan Harris on the FBI’s Maricopa County probe, and attorney John Case on the Tina Peters case and a troubling incident in Bexar County, Texas.

Fire-Resistant Homes and the Lakewood Rezoning Battle

Start listening at 6:04 – Hour 1

Karen Gordey, entrepreneur and owner of Radiant Painting and Lighting, introduces an exclusive fire-resistant coating product that goes on before exterior paint, providing 30 minutes of burn time under the wildfire urban interface code. The product prevents embers from igniting treated surfaces, making it ideal for Colorado foothills homes in Boulder, Golden, and similar areas.

Gordey then shifts to the Lakewood special election, where voters face a ballot measure to repeal the city council’s blanket upzoning ordinance. The ordinance allows duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes on any residential lot citywide. Gordey reports that outside money has flooded the race: $75,000 from a Houston-based 501(c)(4) connected to a former Enron executive, $10,000 from a private equity principal whose firm purchased land at Wadsworth and 285 for a 400-plus-unit apartment development. Flyers from the opposition invoke Ed Perlmutter, Brittany Pedersen, and Michael Bennett while labeling the citizen-led repeal effort a “special interest group.” The Lakewood Citizens Alliance has been working to expose these connections.

“City council said over and over again that wards four and five are not gonna be impacted by the zoning, but that Wadsworth and 285 is ward five, and my question is then how many other land deals are pending that we don’t know about.”

Karen Gordey, Owner, Radiant Painting and Lighting

Colorado Legislation and the CUT Engaged Platform

Start listening at 20:08 – Hour 1

Mary Janssen, a board member of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, explains the organization’s new CUT Engaged platform, which allows citizens to review and take positions on bills in about five minutes per week. CUT, now celebrating its 50th year, sends those positions directly to legislators and the governor every Monday.

Janssen and Monson review two bills: HB26-1313, which adjusts the statewide affordable housing fund created by Proposition 123, and HB26-1327, the large employer worker health care support bill. The latter would charge employers with over 500 employees a $2,300 fee per worker who qualifies for Medicaid. Janssen warns the bill could push major employers like Walmart and JBS USA out of Colorado or force them to close locations. James Madison’s counsel against overly complicated legislation surfaces as Monson notes that if citizens cannot understand a bill, it should not move forward.

“Once you start reading these bills, it’s like, oh, I want to do something. And then just using CUT Engaged, you can either copy it or you can write your own little message to them also.”

Mary Janssen, Board Member, Colorado Union of Taxpayers

226 Million Voter Registrations Under the Microscope

Start listening at 34:16 – Hour 1

Rick Richards, a family physician turned healthcare technology developer and election integrity researcher, built ELLY – The Elector List, a free computer tool that analyzes voter rolls from 45 states and the District of Columbia, covering 226,424,327 registrations. After interviewing scores of county election officials over nearly six years, Richards concluded that most officials are good people who lack the budget, personnel, tools, and policy support to maintain accurate rolls.

Colorado’s February 23, 2026 data reveals that roughly 29% of 4.49 million registrants, about 1.3 million, have a “case” warranting further review. Among the problems: 530,000 registrations missing full legal names, 46,986 with street number errors, 84,463 missing apartment numbers, 25,339 with nonexistent street numbers, 407,000 who told the post office they permanently moved, and 23,900 registered on vacant land. Richards urges citizens to use Elly at TheElectorList.com to research their county’s data, document evidence, and deliver findings to local election officials with a “coffee and donuts approach.”

“The county election officials we’ve talked to almost overwhelmingly are good people that want to do a good job. However, they don’t have the budget, they don’t have the personnel, and they don’t have the tools.”

Rick Richards, Creator, ELLY – The Elector List

Metro Denver Real Estate and the Art of Home Staging

Start listening at 63:52 – Hour 2

Karen Levine, a RE/MAX Realtor with over 30 years of experience in metro Denver, reports strong spring activity in the $450,000 to $600,000 first-time buyer range, where well-prepared homes are drawing multiple offers. Buyers in that segment are not expecting the competition they are encountering. The higher end is also active, though buyers there have more choices.

Levine walks through her staging process: she brings in a professional stager with an interior design background for a room-by-room “walk and talk,” recommending that sellers pack away personal items so prospective buyers can envision themselves in the space. She maintains her own collection of art, accessories, and linens in her basement and lends them to clients at no charge, cycling pieces from one listing to the next on the day before closing.

“I was thinking this morning about the things that are stable, that are things we can predict. And that is if you hire a professional to sell your home, you prepare your home, you price it right, your home sells. And that is consistent from market to market.”

Karen Levine, RE/MAX Realtor

FBI Seizes Maricopa County Election Records

Start listening at 72:42 – Hour 2

Susan Harris, a gold sponsor of the show who lives in Arizona, breaks down the FBI’s secret seizure of election records from Maricopa County. The subpoena targeted then-Senate President Warren Peterson for records from the 2020 Maricopa County audit, in which Harris personally participated as a ballot recounter. While the audit identified 200,000 ballots with signature irregularities, compared to the county’s claimed 25,000, no changes to the election results followed.

Harris also highlights Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs’s refusal to conform state tax forms to updated federal law, leaving taxpayers without valid returns, and the ongoing lawsuit between Maricopa County Recorder Justin Eap and the board of supervisors over election procedures. The conversation ties into Colorado news: El Paso County Clerk Steve Schleicher resigned as vice president of the Colorado County Clerks Association, citing concerns about transparency after being barred from key executive meetings with the Secretary of State’s office.

“So what do they already know? What does the FBI already know? What records do they have? So, you know, election records are deleted. Yes, that’s true. Is any type of record actually ever deleted? I don’t know. I’m not a technology expert, but it sure seems like when records are truly wanted by the Department of Justice, somehow they get them.”

Susan Harris, Show Sponsor and Arizona Resident

The Tina Peters Appeal and Bexar County Vote Anomaly

Start listening at 100:14 – Hour 2

John Case, one of Tina Peters’ attorneys, reports that the former Mesa County clerk has served over a year in a maximum-security women’s prison in Pueblo, with no response from the appeals court or Governor Polis on a potential sentence commutation. Peters was assaulted on January 18 by an inmate serving six years for a stabbing; the attacker was released back into general population and later paroled, while Peters was placed in solitary confinement for 10 days and then charged with assault. She won the administrative hearing on self-defense grounds.

Case then describes a February 18, 2026 incident in Bexar County, Texas, where 4,100 fabricated voter names, identification numbers, and addresses appeared on the daily voter list during the primary, with IDs following a mathematical sequence indicating algorithmic generation. Candidate Weston Martinez spotted the anomaly and reported it. The county pulled the list and published a scrubbed version five days later. The Department of Justice is investigating.

“For people who say you can’t prove that these machines are being tampered with in elections, yes, we can. That event in Bexar County, Texas, is absolute proof. There is no innocent alternative explanation for what happened.”

John Case, Attorney for Tina Peters