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Cooper: The media doesn’t do their job, so you must to get real election answers
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Cooper: The media doesn’t do their job, so you must to get real election answers

By BOB COOPER | Guest Columnist, Rocky Mountain Voice Polling shows more than 55% of voters believe the voting system in the United States is problematic: a huge concern for a republic. What is fueling this? Elected officials who openly crush any form of transparency and block investigations, and a news media that does not question or investigate anything related to election claims.   Across the country, we see and hear a repeated theme of “gold standard” elections, yet elected officials controlling voting systems provide evidence to the contrary.  Did you know verifying election systems is not the role of law enforcement, but of citizens?  Elected officials and election officers should insist on transparency in all cases and commit to providing citizens with c...
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Cooper: Is signature verification of mail-in ballots valid?
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Cooper: Is signature verification of mail-in ballots valid?

By Bob Cooper | Guest Columnist All mail-in voting systems use a process called signature verification to verify the person voting by mail is the voter registered to vote.  In Colorado this process is based on comparing the signature on the outer ballot envelope with the digital signature images in a database called SCORE. This is the only procedure to verify the identity of the voter before that ballot is counted.  Once a signature passes signature verification, the envelope is opened, ballots are sent to be counted and envelopes are stored in a separate container.  The voter is no longer associated with their votes on the ballot.  The process of signature verification varies based on the size of a county but will always follow state statutes.  A key person in...
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