Clear on camera, dismissed on paper
By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice
Inside the election case DA investigators said showed “clear violations”—and why the same office that prosecuted election fraud refused to touch it
A fire chief knows what a five-alarm emergency looks like. When something is burning, he responds. He doesn’t wait for someone else to handle it. That was the mindset Erik Holt carried in 2023 when the security cameras inside his fire station began showing behavior that made him stop, rewind the footage, and stare.
He believed he had uncovered an emergency worth reporting. He did not know that the alarm he pulled would be the only one the system refused to answer.
The fire chief who didn’t look away
Before Teller County voters ever heard his name, Holt was a fireman and a father. A caree...

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