Caldara: Why no one’s crying fraud in the 2023 election
There is one final observation from the Nov. 7 election no one seems to be talking about.
Proposition HH failed by more than 19 points and there doesn’t seem to be any real denial of the legitimacy of the results.
I mean no one is screaming about a stolen election. Most everyone seems to accept HH went down in flames, a bunch of city council seats changed hands, as did school board seats, and a bunch of local tax issues passed while many failed.
Nearly 43% of Colorado’s near 4 million registered voters cast a ballot and overwhelmingly by mail.
Again, ballots were mailed out like grocery store coupons. And now that more voters than ever are registered without their own knowledge, simply by getting a driver’s license, there are even more ballots flying around in mailboxes and apartment building mailrooms, ripe for the plucking.
This means ballot harvesting/stealing operations could have been in high mode. Yet no great conspiracies that the election was stolen.
Prop HH failed by 19 points. Donald Trump failed in Colorado in 2020 by just five points fewer and many, many people are convinced to this day that election was stolen, even here in this state.
The apparently clean 2023 election happened in the shadow of a national news story playing out in a Denver courtroom as a group of Trump haters try to deny him ballot access to the 2024 Republican Colorado presidential primary.