Odd election results in Colorado GOP primary for Secretary of State

In most states, elections are overseen by the "Secretary of State."  So if someone wanted to rig elections, owning that office would be a good move, eh?

Three days ago Colorado had a primary election for Secretary of State.  On the Republican side were three candidates: Pam Anderson, Tina Peters and Mike ODonnell.

Tina Peters was an election official for Mesa County, and had gotten a lot of publicity a year ago when she claimed there were massive irregularities in the vote count in that county in the 2020 election.

Unsurprisingly, the Democrats who run Colorado didn't want Peters to win.  Their pick was Pam Anderson.

The result?  Of 600,000 votes cast, Anderson was credited with 261,801, Peters with 174,393.  ODonnell with 170,797.  So seemingly a clear win for Anderson, eh?

Investigative journalist Emerald Robinson was skeptical.  ODonnell is an Australian businessman with little presence in the state.  He had almost no supporters on Fakebook and Twatter, and had raised just $4,700 three weeks before the primary.  Yet he supposedly managed to get almost 171,000 votes?

Robinson checked Facebook, and found only 193 people were following his campaign page.  He fared better on Twatter, with 560 followers.  His last tweet the day before the election got four "likes"--the most interaction that his campaign's Twitter account ever received.

And yet 171,000 votes? 

During the campaign O’Donnell sent 1,306 tweets.  Robinson found that the vast majority of them got: no Likes, no Retweets and no Comments.  So Robinson was very curious as to how, with no backers, no interaction on his Fakebook or Twitter accounts and almost no advertising, he managed to be credited with almost 171,000 votes--almost one-third of the votes cast.

It was like 171,000 voters suddenly appeared out of nowhere to vote for the guy.  The New York Times claimed he actually won 17 counties outright.

It's almost as though some twist in the programs of voting machines erroneously gave ODonnell lots of votes.  If that's true the question is, where did those votes come from?

Robinson speculates that a candidate with no strong historical presence in the state, and no support on social media, would be lucky to get 20,000 votes--basically the protest vote.  If the machines were programmed (whether intentionally or by error) to switch votes from Peters to ODonnell, that could easily change the result.  And this has happened in other states with corrupt voting machines.

Here's the twist: the current Secretary of State is a Democrat, Jena Griswold, who has illegally erased electronic voting records from 2020 beyond the possibility of recovery.  Stands to reason she wouldn't want to risk a win by a county voting official who'd already come forward with charges of massive election irregularities from 2020.

In an honest state, people would at least examine the programming of voting machines statewide.  Of course with a Democrat governor and Dem secretary of state, Colorado won't do that.

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