How Colorado’s election system makes large-scale result rigging nearly impossible
Let’s say you want to rig the outcome of the presidential election or another statewide race in Colorado.
Step 1: Pack a lunch … and a dinner … and a snack and a breakfast and a second lunch and four more weeks of food because you’re going to be at it for at least a month in dozens of counties and will have to evade hundreds of people from across the political spectrum trying to stop you.
This is the reality of election rigging in the state, a worry suddenly receiving a lot more attention after GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump floated the idea that voting results nationally could be manipulated against him. Members of Colorado’s congressional delegation on Thursday ridiculed the notion of a tainted election.
“This type of rhetoric is absurd,” said U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, “and I have faith in the American people and in our election system.”
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CHICAGO, IL – OCTOBER 18: Wrist bands, which are given to residents after they cast a ballot for the November 8 election, sit on a table at an early voting site on October 18, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. With three weeks to go until election day, most polls show Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton with a substantial lead over her GOP rival Donald Trump. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)