Colorado: Election disinformation has clerks trying new tactics to assure voters | Bente Birkeland/Colorado Public Radio
If you want to see the kind of disinformation clerks in Colorado are up against, it is on full display in the video Republican state lawmaker Ron Hanks made to announce his run for U.S. Senate. It opens with Hanks standing next to a truck bed that holds a rifle and a large printer bearing the label ‘Dominion Voting Machine.’ Most counties in Colorado use Dominion’s equipment and the Denver-based company is at the heart of false claims that it somehow rigged the 2020 election against Donald Trump. “As our next Senator, I’ll fight for our conservative values, and I’ll start by targeting our broken election system,” he tells viewers. Moments later he fires a shot that causes the machine to explode. While Colorado’s U.S. Senate election isn’t until 2022, Hanks recently asked his supporters to call his team if they find anything they believe is fraud during this year’s election. “There are multiple scenarios that could be revealed, and any evidence we gather will tighten the noose,” stated Hanks in the email. The whole thing has left Fremont County Clerk Justin Grantham frustrated. “I am his county clerk and recorder. And for him to spout out election fraud and not even come hear it from the trusted source,” said Grantham, a Republican.
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