Reforms needed to build faith in Colorado’s mail-in balloting

... “Vote early, vote often” is not just a funny line. For some, it’s marching orders...

Voter rolls are very rarely purged. Those who make a living screaming “voter intimidation!” have made it near impossible to remove the deceased or those moved to a different location...

It’s common for Colorado towns to have far more people on the voter rolls than their actual population — new voters get added while dead ones stay...

Vote harvesting infrastructure cost millions and takes years to build. Unlike Colorado’s right, Colorado’s left has both deep pockets and patience. They spent the better part of 15 years perfecting their harvesting machine...

The left (who holds every lever of power in the state) will never allow for same-day, in-person, photo ID voting...

Yes, Colorado’s all-mail system is safer than most. But let me suggest two reforms.

The first is to ban the Secretary of State’s office from releasing the list of who has voted until after the election. This will make it much harder to game the system.

And secondly, it’s time for a biometric marker on our ballots. My phone can tell it’s me by facial recognition. My computer opens by reading my fingerprint when I hit the on button. The TSA even has facial recognition to get through the airport.

But Colorado’s security for ballots? In a matter of two to three seconds a bleary-eyed human compares how you signed your ballot envelope with some old signature they have on file...