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While this year’s Colorado Republican virtual Assembly and voting process went off without a hitch, the same cannot be said for the Colorado Democrats. Erik Underwood, who is apparently running for their U.S. Senate nomination, is highlighting a number of troubling allegations, while also mentioning that voter fraud played a role in denying several candidates a fair shot. These are unsettling and troubling allegations that should be taken seriously.
 
"The Colorado GOP spent weeks explaining our process to delegates and trying to find a platform that had military grade encryption, was simple and easy to use, and would give every voter a unique access pin. Since Democrats don’t take voting fraud seriously in elections, it’s not surprising to see them not take it seriously during this process." - COGOP Communications Director Joe Jackson
 
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Alleging Flawed Assembly Process, Democrats Erik Underwood Sues For Berth In US Senate Primary

Colorado Politics
Ernest Luning
April 29, 2020
 
Democrat Erik Underwood is suing to have his name added to the ballot for Colorado's primary election for U.S. senator, charging that he was denied a fair shot at the nomination after emergency rules were adopted by the party in the face of an exploding coronavirus epidemic.
 
Underwood, a former congressional staffer and gubernatorial candidate, rounded out the field in third place in the Democrats' state assembly on April 18, with 0.87% of the vote. He argues that the party's procedures "broke down" on multiple occasions leading up to the assembly, which was held almost entirely using online balloting.
 
Underwood names Griswold as the defendant, since her office has the ultimate say in access to the primary ballot. The lawsuit includes a litany of examples Underwood says prove the party short-changed some candidates when officials switched nearly overnight from holding traditional, in-person assemblies to gatherings conducted remotely, mostly using various internet-based platforms.
 
Among the irregularities Underwood cites: a county party that appears to have supplied state delegate email addresses to one candidate while ignoring the others; delays in posting county assembly results to the state party's website, hindering the ability of candidates to audit the elections; a glitch in an online voting application that allowed delegates to vote more than once; and imprecise communication with Senate candidates about the videos they were asked to submit to replace speeches at the county and state meetings.
 
That wasn't good enough for Underwood, who said he only learned about Spaulding's complaint after the assembly and believes that Carroll "swept it under the rug," including filing a statement on a form submitted to state election officials declaring that there hadn't been any challenges to delegate credentialing.
 
"They should have brought that to our attention," he said. "Even though there was no real assembly, you have to have due process."
 
Read the full Colorado Politics article here.