Colorado Election Integrity
Tracking voter roll accuracy challenges, DOJ enforcement actions, and citizen organizing efforts around Colorado election system ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Coverage Timeline
Tina Peters freed after Polis commutes her sentence
Gov. Jared Polis cut the former Mesa County clerk's nine-year sentence, citing an appeals-court finding that her protected speech factored into it. On The Kim Monson Show, her attorney John…
Hickenlooper moves to bar Tina Peters from DOJ lawfare fund
The Colorado senator plans a floor amendment to keep people convicted of election-related crimes, including the former Mesa County clerk, from drawing on the Justice Department's $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund.
Six San Luis Valley counties weigh El Paso voter roll cleanup model
At the urging of election researcher Douglas Frank, six San Luis Valley counties are weighing an Experian-assisted voter roll cleanup modeled on El Paso County's 2023 program. The push comes…
Polis commutes Tina Peters’ sentence, making the former Mesa County clerk eligible for parole June 1
Colorado's clerks association and Attorney General Phil Weiser condemned the governor's decision to cut the election-system breach sentence from nine years to roughly four years and four and a half…
A HAVA complaint against Colorado’s secretary of state will be decided by that same office, with a federal deadline of May 21
Federal election law routes Help America Vote Act complaints to a state's chief election official; in this case that means Secretary of State Jena Griswold's office both answers the complaint…
Polis commutes Tina Peters’s sentence, ordering parole release June 1
The governor cut the former Mesa County clerk's nearly nine-year sentence to four years and four and a half months, acting two days after the legislature adjourned and before a…
Hanks, Bottoms, Willson sue to bar unaffiliated voters from Colorado GOP primary
Three Republican primary candidates ask a Denver judge to stop the Secretary of State from sending Republican ballots to unaffiliated voters, with a hearing set for Thursday, two days before…
Willson runs for Colorado AG, pledges to end Weiser’s Trump lawsuits
The retired Army JAG officer and former Tina Peters attorney cleared the Republican state assembly with roughly 35 percent of delegates; he pledges to drop the Colorado AG's 64 suits…
Appeals court upholds Peters convictions, reverses sentence
A three-judge panel found the trial judge improperly considered Peters's political speech in calculating her nine-year prison term and ordered resentencing, while declaring Trump's presidential pardon meaningless for state crimes.
El Paso County clerk withdraws from Colorado County Clerks Association, citing transparency concerns
Steve Schleiker resigned as CCCA vice president and pulled the state's largest county from active membership after being barred from meetings with the Secretary of State's office on what he…
Election analyst warns Colorado electronic ballot return bill fits national pattern of rigged election laws
Former military intelligence captain Seth Keshel says SB26-119 adds to a system where automatic voter registration and electronic voting correlate with one-party dominance.
HAVA complaint alleges nearly 488,000 Colorado voter records altered after elections certified
A federal election complaint filed against Secretary of State Jena Griswold demands a formal hearing over voter participation records that were added, deleted, or modified after the 2020, 2022, and…
Colorado bill would require district-based county commissioner elections, offer voters five-member boards
House Bill 26-1203, amended to remove ranked choice voting before passing committee, would require district elections for county commissioners and put the question of expanding to five-member boards before voters…
Governor Polis signals clemency for Tina Peters after months of silence on 4,201-signature petition
Gov. Polis extended the clemency application deadline to April 3 after comparing Peters's nine-year sentence to a state legislator's probation for the same felony charge, breaking more than two months…
Colorado bill would bring electronic ballot return to local elections, raising security concerns flagged by federal agencies
SB26-119 would authorize municipalities and special districts to let voters return marked ballots over the internet, a method that NIST, DHS, and the National Academies of Sciences have called high-risk…
Colorado election integrity group aims to organize counties against state voter rolls before 2026 midterms
Jim Elliott of Colorado Election Integrity is rallying conservative counties to collectively refuse to use the state's voter registration system, citing data showing more registrations than voting-age residents in multiple…
Douglas County voter rolls show 96 percent churn as DOJ sues Colorado over registration records
An election integrity analyst says Douglas County has more active voter registrations than voting-age residents, while the federal government presses a lawsuit against Secretary of State Jena Griswold for refusing…
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