ToddWatkinsConflictedPoliticsResolution 4 12 2024

Every American should hate politics or at least have a trepidatious respect for it in the same way people who live near an active volcano respect the destructive power of pyroclastic energy. Both can have disastrous effects on those who live within their reach. But I’m not a geologist. I’m the Vice Chairman of the El Paso County Republican Party, so this will be about politics. And more specifically, how political conflicts of interest can be destructive to more than those within a political party. My name is Todd and I hate politics.

UPDATE MARCH 3, 2024
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February 12, 2024

Dear Members of the Colorado Republican State Central Committee,

I write in the public interest to start discussion of how Colorado’s election system can be improved. I am one of the lawyers representing Tina Peters in U.S. District Court case no. 23-cv-03014-NYW captioned Peters v. United States et al, and 10th Circuit Court of Appeals case no. 24-1013 (appeal of Order dismissing DA Daniel Rubinstein).  The information herein is part of the pleadings and briefs in the above cases.

Republican officials made statements about Tina Peters in an email published by the Denver Post on February 5, 2024.  The authors raise important public issues:  Is Colorado’s election system secure and transparent?  Does it comply with federal and state law? These questions should be publicly debated.

The authors incorrectly state that Tina Peters made a backup image of the Mesa County computer hard drive “because she believed she was proving election fraud.” 

The truth is that Tina Peters made a backup image of the Mesa County computer hard drive because she was required to do so by federal law.

Posted November 16, 2023
Submitted by a friend

Very simply, in the November 7, 2023 election, the Colorado Secretary of State's web site reporting ballot returns was reporting more ballots counted on Proposition HH than the total number of ballots received, by over 142,000, as described in more detail below from my local newsletter.


Election Magic - Did the Curtain Slip? Why do card sharps wear long sleeves?
Hypothetically, of course, if you controlled the software that reports voting results, and you assumed that not all cast ballots would vote one way or another on a particular issue important to you, you might consider slipping in some numbers favoring your position that no one would notice. So if 100 ballots were cast but of those 20 didn’t bother voting on your issue, you might get away with slipping in a few numbers no one would notice, up to 20, or so you hope.