From Kazakhstan to Colorado: Secretary of State candidate James Wiley’s plan to scrap electronic voting machines
By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice
James Wiley was 7 on Election Night 2000. He remembers the decorations from his birthday staying up for two more weeks while the country waited to find out who had won.
He didn’t understand hanging chads or voting machines. At the time, he was living in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where his missionary family had been since he was three months old.
What stuck with him from those years wasn’t the mechanics of elections. It was how power operated.
He’s 32 and running for Colorado Secretary of State as a Republican, after years working on election cases and a stint as executive director of the Libertarian Party.
What he’s saying on the campaign trail isn’t new for him. The push to get rid of electronic voting machines and move to hand-cou...





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