Debunking the “Californians Turned Colorado Blue” Myth: Organic Change or Engineered Illusion?

By Mark Cook | Commentary, Article on X

The claim that an influx of liberal Californians (or even broader interstate migration) single-handedly flipped Colorado from a Republican-leaning swing state to a reliably Democratic one collapses under even modest scrutiny of the numbers. Between 2000 and 2024, Colorado absorbed roughly 2.8 million gross domestic in-migrants, with Californians making up about 25% (≈685,000).

This represents only 25–30% of the state’s total population growth and less than one-third of the 3.25 million net new registered voters the Colorado Secretary of State’s office claims were added in the same period. Voter-file models consistently show domestic migrants breaking roughly 32% Republican, 28% Democratic, and 40% Unaffiliated/Independent, a mix that is partisan-neutral or even slightly Republican-leaning when Texas, Florida, and Arizona inflows are included. The timing also contradicts the narrative: Colorado’s decisive leftward turn began with Obama’s 2008 victory, years before the 2014–2016 peak in migration.

What the official data portrays as the true drivers: an unaffiliated voter explosion (from 28% to nearly 50% of the electorate, breaking 55–60% Democratic), the Hispanic population doubling to 21% (voting ≈65% Democratic), and the suburbanization of the educated Front Range, are entirely plausible organic explanations. However, all of these “explanations” rest on the integrity of the very same statewide voter registration database (SCORE) and Census/ACS migration flows that could themselves be compromised.

County clerks do not have independent custodianship of their rolls; every registration, change of address, and purge flows through the centralized SOS system. If bad actors inside or with access to that system are injecting phantom registrations, then the “700,000 new voters from migration” and the “1.7 million new unaffiliated voters” may simply be digital artifacts tied to ballots that were never cast by real Colorado citizens.

The worst part is, our clerks would have no idea if this is happening, yet they would be responsible. That puts them in a very bad spot.

I wonder why Colorado does that to them? And then when they question the system, they are put in prison. Yup, that makes perfect sense for people with nothing to HIDE or nobody to keep QUIET, like @realtinapeters who they have now imprisoned for PRESERVING ELECTION RECORDS and ASKING QUESTIONS. How DARE she!?!

Mail-in ballots, which account for 90%+ of votes in Colorado, amplify the concern: once the signature is verified and the envelope separated (as required for ballot secrecy), there is no chain-of-custody link between the ballot and the voter record. This design makes it theoretically possible to generate and count ballots tied to fabricated registrations without ever involving a living person.

Past lawsuits (Judicial Watch 2020–2023, United Sovereign Americans 2024–2025), canvassing efforts (USEIP 2022), and statistical analyses (Seth Keshel @RealSKeshel and Dr. Frank @DrFrankModels) have repeatedly flagged anomalies: over-registered counties, turnout exceeding eligible population, and sudden unaffiliated spikes, yet all have been dismissed or settled without full forensic access to the SCORE database.

The DOJ should demand a full forensic investigation of SCORE. I’d be happy to assist in that! And public cast-vote records provide reassurance only if the underlying registration list and ballot images are authentic; if the list itself is padded, the audit merely confirms the manipulation.

Risk-limiting audits for Colorado are another ‘big problem’ (jena knows why, lol) so we should do a forensic audit of that as well. Remember, people with nothing to hide, hide nothing, so there should be no problem, right jena?

Further compounding these concerns are analyses of cast vote records (CVRs) revealing “lockstep parallel motion” voting patterns (highly unnatural correlations where voters’ choices on down-ballot measures move in perfect synchronization across batches, defying statistical expectations for independent voter behavior).

In Arapahoe County’s 2020 CVR, for instance, the ratio of votes on the Gallagher Amendment repeal remained identical across precincts for both parties, a phenomenon that dissipates entirely when precinct data is preserved and shuffled, indicating fabricated or algorithmically generated records rather than organic results.

These patterns, documented at very high sigma deviations (far beyond natural variance), appeared in El Paso County as well. Such evidence, highlighted in posts by election data analyst @KingSolomon006 (Edward Solomon), suggests systemic manipulation in Dominion systems used in Colorado, Nevada, and beyond, patterns that “go away” under forensic precinct-shuffling, pointing to tabulation ‘alterations’.

In the end, the “Californians ruined Colorado” story is demonstrably too small and too late to explain the shift.

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