Recall (ha) that 55 Colorado sheriffs filed to overturn new gun laws in Colorado and that there are some recall elections coming up.
From email today:
"This is it, Mike. Tuesday is election day in the NRA recalls of two Colorado Democrats and both races are neck-and-neck. Can you chip in $3 to Democrats John Morse and Angela Giron, the two Democrats targeted by the NRA, to help the get out the vote in these final two days?
The NRA pushed for these recalls. They flooded these races with big money attack ads, kicking in $350,000 according to their last spending report. They said that winning in Colorado would cause a “wave of fear” to wash across state legislatures nationwide—paralyzing any new gun laws at the state level.
But then something amazing happened. The Daily Kos community stepped up and, with the help of 12,906 contributors nationwide, we’ve almost matched the NRA dollar-for-dollar in these races.
Is the Daily Kos not doing *exactly* what the NRA is doing? Spending big money and flooding the races--"dollar-for-dollar"? Outsiders (not Coloradans) driving the money in the races? Actually, it's much worse:
Anti-recall groups have raised $3.1 million while pro-recall groups have raised $266,231. These numbers do not include non-profits that have raised and spent money in the recalls but do not have to disclose their contributions. [http://gazette.com/interactive-map-who-donated-to-the-colorado-recall-election/article/1505839]
It's very interesting to me that
Democrats are leading three-to-one in the early voting period, but election day turnout is expected to be anemic and both campaigns are getting ready to make their final get out the vote expenditures. Simply put, these elections could come down to just a few votes on either side.
I sincerely hope that the early-voting ballots (essentially absentee mail-in votes) are thoroughly vetted. I have little doubt that these mail-on votes tilting to Democrats represents a huge potential for fraud. The Kos basically says as much when they note that once "real" voting starts, their margins are likely to be chopped down to nothing (harder to create fraudulent votes in the voting booth than in the mail). Already fraud reports are being denied by the Clerk in one district, while Democrats are papering local college campuses to get students who just arrived to use their same-day voter registration to vote.
El Paso County Commissioner Peggy Littleton took issue with Colorado College students who she said were dropping off 10 ballots at a time last week at early voting centers."Initially, it concerned me because they were bringing in several ballots for each person," said Littleton, who confronted the students about it.But under the law, a person is allowed to drop off up to 10 ballots.
[http://gazette.com/county-clerk-discounts-voter-fraud-allegations-in-colorado-recall/article/1505965]
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