At least a dozen mailed ballots were intercepted and cast on the Western Slope before voters received them, according to the Colorado Secretary of State's Office.

At least a dozen mailed ballots were intercepted and cast on the Western Slope before voters received them, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. Three of those ballots were cast and counted in Mesa County before the county clerk was able to pull them from the final tally.

Colorado’s Department of State learned about the intercepted ballots on Tuesday.

“The ballots were filled out, the return envelopes were signed, they were then returned to a USPS blue box, so that’s a postal box, not a ballot drop box,” said Secretary of State Jena Griswold in a news conference on Thursday afternoon. “The issue was discovered during the signature verification process.”

  • kescusay@lemmy.world
    11·
    10 days ago

    Predictions:

    • The perpetrator is a Republican.
    • His excuse will be, “Everyone does it and no one gets caught,” despite getting caught.
    • Other Republicans will continue to believe in imaginary Democratic voter fraud, while ignoring instances of actual fraud like this one from their own party members.
    • The Pantser@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 days ago

      Yea sure democrats do voter fraud and nobody ever has the proof. Either democrats are so good at fraud because we’re much smarter or there really isn’t any fraud.

      • vortic@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 days ago

        The problem is that Republicans are being told that there is proof. That the fraud is rampant and everyone knows it. It’s just that “they” keep removing and hiding the information.

        My mom seriously believes that there is mountains of proof and that she has seen it in the past, but can’t find it anymore because it has been deleted from the internet.

  • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    9 days ago

    I wish Biden would just arrest Trump and Musk for being Russian assets. Use eminent domain to seize Musk’s companies (since taxpayers made them all profitable). Then remove any supreme justice that is corrupt with a special council (Muller and Smith seem like good picks).

    Since the Republicans have no candidate, make Harris president. Then we need to redoing our system bc we have a lot of flaws embedded in it.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
      02·
      9 days ago

      That sounds like something a fascist would do. Which is likely one of the many reasons it won’t be done.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        2·
        9 days ago

        Trump should have been arrested on January 7th, and Elon is a naturalized citizen who has both received billions in government aid and is working with America’s enemies.

        Fascism is not when the powerful are obligated to follow the law or face legal consequences.

      • aubertlone@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        You are correct

        But also there was that recent supreme Court ruling that basically makes the US president a king

        So anything Biden ( or any elected president ) does as president is completely and totally sanctioned by the US supreme Court

        The Overton window in the US has shifted so far to the right we literally had the supreme Court say the president cannot commit a crime…

        It won’t be done not because it’s fascist. But because the Democratic party doesn’t want to play with the modern political ruleset