OP/ED Gazette July 29, 2025

LETTERS: Nancy Murray reply

Voting systems integrity

This letter is in response to Joe Loyall's letter dated July 23.

During Tina Peters' trial, she was not permitted to defend herself adequately. When she attempted to present evidence that her duties required her to take a backup copy of the election system before the required software update to preserve election data for the mandated 25 months in Colorado, the prosecution objected, and the judge sustained the objection. Most of her witnesses, including the individual who made the backup, were not allowed to testify.

Thanks to Tina's backups, we now know that the "Trusted Build" update overwrote all election data on every machine in the state, which is a violation of federal law. The Department of Justice has since requested all election data for federal elections in Colorado from 2020, 2022, and 2024 from the secretary of state.

Click above to hear my comments, click below for transcript.  I mispoke on some of the dates.  It was in 2004, not 2024 that Al Kolwicz proved the the systems are not secret, verifiable, and accurate.
From the comments:
"This history of the focus of Colorado’s elections has been trending more and more towards electronics and “ballots” and away from votes that citizens believe will decide the people and issues under which they will be governed..."

June 30, 2025

COLORADO GOP'S VC ELECTION MATTERS!

Former Colorado GOP Vice Chairman D. Lee Phelan, Sr., has resigned from his position, creating a vacancy which needs filled by a majority vote of the Colorado Republican Central Committee.

When BCR Chairman Peg Cage questioned State Chairman Brita Horn about why the committee is being called to meet online, Horn said that she didn't want the committee to have to travel to two meetings this summer, and besides, she said, "It's just the Vice Chairman, it doesn't really matter."

Most of the Boulder County Republican Executive Committee members plan to sign a petition to have the vote for Vice Chairman in PERSON, ON SECRET PAPER BALLOTS, AND HAND-COUNTED. To us, it REALLY MATTERS that the vote be verifiably honest and that our Vice Chairman was provably elected by the majority of votes.

Even if you don't have a vote, you have a voice and can tell Chairman Horn (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) you'd like the State Central Committee to meet in person and vote on paper ballots. It MATTERS!

REMINDER – THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS SHOULD BE CONDUCTED IN PERSON –
The idea of skirting the Colorado State Central Committee requirement that “Officers shall be elected by majority vote using a secret ballot…” started during the COVID scare.  Even the 2021 Organizational Meeting for the election of officers should have been entirely in person.  According to the temporary law cited in the Call for that meeting, “any required acts of a political party…” are “Critical Government Functions”  even up to the ORANGE level, “Critical Government Functions​ may continue to operate without capacity limitations.”
See https://mycoloradogop.org/106-crc-meeting-must-be-in-person-with-voting-on-paper-ballots and https://mycoloradogop.org/133-project-in-person-co-gop-state-central-committee-meeting

February 12, 2024

Dear Members of the Colorado Republican State Central Committee,

I write in the public interest to start discussion of how Colorado’s election system can be improved. I am one of the lawyers representing Tina Peters in U.S. District Court case no. 23-cv-03014-NYW captioned Peters v. United States et al, and 10th Circuit Court of Appeals case no. 24-1013 (appeal of Order dismissing DA Daniel Rubinstein).  The information herein is part of the pleadings and briefs in the above cases.

Republican officials made statements about Tina Peters in an email published by the Denver Post on February 5, 2024.  The authors raise important public issues:  Is Colorado’s election system secure and transparent?  Does it comply with federal and state law? These questions should be publicly debated.

The authors incorrectly state that Tina Peters made a backup image of the Mesa County computer hard drive “because she believed she was proving election fraud.” 

The truth is that Tina Peters made a backup image of the Mesa County computer hard drive because she was required to do so by federal law.