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.”

  • Em Adespoton
    199·
    29 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
      11·
      29 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
      9·
      28 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

    • peppers_ghost@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      28 days ago

      Instead of doing things in his power to stop the rise of fascism, Biden is happy to sit back and allow the fraudsters to do their work. At least he was civil about everything though

      • Em Adespoton
        1·
        28 days ago

        If you use the fascist playbook to combat fascism, you are a fascist.

        • peppers_ghost@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          28 days ago

          Guess we’ve already lost then, because nothing substantial is being done to combat the rise of fascism. Hope my friends don’t go to camps