Pam Anderson? I never expected her to go into local politics.
The Associated Press called the race for Anderson, who easily knocked off Tina Peters, the Mesa County clerk who was indicted last year on charges that she allowed someone to improperly access and download data from election machines as she sought to prove that widespread fraud had occurred in the state’s 2020 presidential election....
Election deniers like Peters fared poorly across Colorado on Tuesday: Businessman Joe O’Dea, who also accepted Biden’s victory as legitimate, won the GOP Senate primary over state Rep. Ron Hanks (R), who staked his campaign on Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
Anderson, a former county clerk with experience overseeing elections, will now face Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold in November’s general election. Her victory is the second major win for a Republican who has defended the legitimacy of the 2020 election in a GOP secretary of state primary, after Georgia incumbent Brad Raffensperger (R) easily defeated a Trump-endorsed primary challenger in May.
It also ensures that elections in a key swing state will not be overseen by an election denier. Peters was no ordinary skeptic: She was barred from overseeing local elections in Mesa County in 2021 and has similarly been banned from running the county’s elections this year.
That ranked her among the nation’s most ardent election skeptics: “Election deniers are winning nominations for secretary of state across the nation. But no one is more extreme than Tina Peters,” Griswold told HuffPost before the election.
In March 2021, a grand jury indicted Peters on seven felony charges related to elections. Prosecutors alleged that Peters committed identity theft and other crimes after she used a Colorado voter’s name to provide someone else access to Mesa County’s voting machines, allowing them to download data from the electoral system.
Peters and her deputy, prosecutors said, later shared that information, as well as passwords to election files, with conspiracy theorists who’d promoted the idea that the 2020 election had been stolen from former Trump.
Seven felony charges! Nice. It may not bode well for Nov, but I can't get upset over Trumpettes losing.
Hopefully, these Trumpettes will lose in Nov.
If not:
“The nation can expect these candidates, if elected, to suppress the vote, create security breaches, push out lies, and further destabilize American elections,” Griswold, the chairwoman of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, a party campaign arm, said. “We cannot allow election deniers to oversee the nation’s elections ― that’s why democracy is at Code Red right now.”
Even without their victories the wingnut influence will be tremendous.
Peters has claimed the indictment is a politically-motivated effort to keep her from investigating claims of fraud in Colorado’s election, during which there were no credible reports or findings of widespread irregularities. Biden won the state by roughly 14 points and nearly 500,000 votes.
“I will never plead guilty because I’ve committed no crime,” she told the Colorado Sun. “This is a political maneuver to color the minds of the voters to keep me out of the Secretary of State’s Office.”
... Peters was not the only election denier seeking office in Colorado, where numerous Republican candidates in local county clerk races have questioned the results of the 2020 election. That includes Mesa County, where a Republican conspiracy theorist squared off Tuesday night with another candidate who has acknowledged that the 2020 race was free of the fraud Trump and Peters have baselessly said occurred. That election denier appears to have lost as well.
? And they've turned you down? 
I offered either of them my service in the sense that I just wanted to see for myself the kind of lunacy and lying that they wallow in.....I kept entertaining the notion that none of them actually believe the bullshit they say and kept wondering if they act "normal" among themselves after deluging their supporters with wrong and stupid on a daily basis. I somehow cling to the irrational notion that neither of them really believe the shit they put out and wanted to test my hypothesis but as noted, they both fish slapped me with a big "ignored" and so far they're sticking to that.
There are so many things that I deeply disagree with RepuQs on it's fuckin' insane that the central litmus test is the Big Lie. The GQP is really messed up.