Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Tuesday announced his team brought felony indictments against six employees of a Wyoming-based canvassing firm on charges they forged the names of dead people on a petition to get Republican Carl Andersen on the 2022 primary ballot for the state’s 7th US House District, the Denver Post reports on more conservative “election integrity” efforts.
Anderson never made the ballot as he was disqualified last June after the Secretary of State’s office determined there was an “unusually high number of signatures on the Andersen petition that did not match signatures in voter files” and that at least several of them were too dead to have signed the petition, promptly referring the matter to the Attorney General. Weiser’s office said Anderson himself was not implicated in the scam, nor was “Grassfire,” the canvassing firm that employed the six scumbags. “Colorado’s best-in-class election system depends on individuals playing by the rules and acting with integrity,” said Weiser in a statement. “When candidates, their agents, or others in the process are deceitful and break the rules, they must be held accountable.”