Of all the Colorado races drawing attention this year, the contest for Secretary of State doesn’t necessarily rank that high.
It didn’t always look like it was going to be that way.
The candidacy of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters — who faces criminal charges for allegedly violating the security of her office’s election equipment in a search for purported fraud — put Colorado on the list of states where election deniers were vying to oversee the election system.
But Peters lost her GOP primary — decisively — to Pam Anderson, a former head of the Clerk’s Association who has made standing up for the state’s election model central to her campaign.
Still, false claims about election fraud, and how to handle them, remain central to a race in which, on many of the big issues, the Republican and Democratic candidates agree more than they disagree.
Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold is running, in part, on her efforts to defend the election system in the face of threats from people like Peters and other Republican clerks who have questioned the trustworthiness of Colorado’s election equipment.
“I was the first Secretary in the nation to have to prohibit fake audits after county clerks were threatened, some with their lives,” said Griswold. “I was the first secretary of state to address an insider threat when Tina Peters compromised her voting equipment.”
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