The woman behind Citizen Center, a nonprofit organization that focuses on elections issues and more, is pushing Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s office to hold a hearing prompted by her complaint about alleged voting irregularities in Saguache County. And today, she plans to announce a broader lawsuit focusing on Gessler and officials in several other counties. Marks’s background? “I used to be the primary owner and CEO of a trailer manufacturing firm,” she says. “I retired to Aspen in 2002 and ran for mayor in 2009 — and that experience caused me to get completely passionate about Colorado’s elections, which are some of the least transparent, most troublesome elections in the country. In the past almost-three years, I have become a full-time election-quality advocate: I have seven active lawsuits going on across the state on election transparency and election quality. And now, I’ve established a nonprofit so that I can continue my work in a more organized way.”
“They bought with HAVA [Help America Vote Act] funds a very complex computerized voting machine about a month before the 2010 election,” she says. “The system that they purchased was not certified by the Secretary of State because they only bought one component of a certified system — the same system in use in Jefferson County and Mesa County.”
According to Marks, “that system had a number of problems when it was decertified and then recertified in 2007-2008 by the Secretary of State’s office” — and she believes the Saguache vote bore them out: “The Saguache election found gross errors as well as an enormous amount of negligence.”
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