And yes, this one is on the Republican side of said political aisle (reformatted, emphasis mine) and we’ll report it:
Former Colorado GOP chairman charged with voter fraud, forgery
GREELEY, Colo. — The former chairman of Colorado’s Republican Party has been charged with voter fraud and forgery. Steve Curtis, 57, is accused of filling out and mailing in his ex-wife’s ballot for the 2016 presidential election. Curtis was the state’s GOP chairman from 1997 to 1999 and currently hosts a talk radio show on KLZ-560 AM. He made his first court appearance Tuesday morning in Weld County to be advised of the charges against him.
“We’re not going to talk about this,” Curtis said when asked if he voted for his ex-wife in November.
…His ex-wife, Kelly Curtis, was less shy when reached by phone in South Carolina.
“I was livid over the whole situation, definitely,” she said. Curtis said she left her husband after just nine months of marriage. “I didn’t feel it was an equal partnership, I’ll just leave it at that,” she said. Still, the 49-year old said she never predicted her ex-husband would allegedly mail in her ballot and sign her name.
And how did he get found out? When a law abiding citizen asked the right questions at the right time upon moving:
Weld County prosecutors discovered the forgery when Kelly Curtis called the Weld County Elections Office in October asking how she could vote because she had just moved to South Carolina but was still registered to vote in Colorado. That’s when she said an election worker told her she had already voted by mail and the elections office already had her ballot. “I was just completely stunned. I thought there had to be some kind of mistake,” Kelly Curtis said.
And here the kind of stuff that OUR elections officials here in NH should be doing but I’ve not seen much evidence of it. Certainly we see Ed Naile, Chair of CNHT, using these kinds of techniques on our behalf (because the NH Political Class WON’T do the jobs they are supposed to do).
That’s when verification judges for the Weld County Clerk and Recorder’s Office got involved. “We compared her (ballot) signature just to the signatures on her registration,” said Weld County Clerk and Recorder Carly Koppes, who quickly determined the signatures didn’t match but noted the ballot was sent from Steve Curtis’ home in Firestone.
Koppes is a first-term Republican who said she had no idea Steve Curtis used to the state’s party chairman. “There’s a little bit of irony in it, but I don’t care who you are or what you’ve formally have done, it’s just not OK to do it,” she said.
And instead of stepping up and being a stand-up guy, what does this vote thief do? Yeah, you got it:
In court, Curtis’ defense attorney asked the judge to impose a gag order to keep prosecutors from talking to the media about the case.
Do bad, sweep it under the rug. Or at least try to do it (like they do here in NH):
The judge declined. After the hearing, Curtis’ defense attorney asked Weld County sheriff’s deputies to escort him to his vehicle in order to avoid any more questions from the FOX31 Problem Solvers.
What a weasel.
Curtis faces up to 18 months in jail for the misdemeanor count of election fraud and up to three years in prison for the felony count of forgery.
If convicted (and he still is innocent until proven guilty), throw the book at him. Then grab another and throw it, too.
(H/T: Fox 31 Denver via Instapundit)
