1) Eliminating electronic voting machines- we have 3 forensic reports I have provided thus far that these machines can not be trusted

2) Hand counts and Audits- True transparency

3) Watermarked, serialized ballots- even your $1 bill is on counterfeit proof paper with a unique serial number. Your vote is even more precious

4) Guarantee elections remain local not state or nationalized

As Secretary of State, how will you seek to clean up the voter registration lists to eliminate all non- eligible voters?

Get rid of Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) founded by David Becker employee of Mark Zuckerberg who has made it clear he hates conservatives and has questionable ties to election fraud.

It is ridiculous that Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) registers automatically underage voters and now non citizens and felons can now be on our voter roles. Did you know that it takes 2 federal election cycles (8 years) to remove a voter from the roles? This and other opportunities for fraud MUST be stopped.

To what extent should Colorado counties determine and manage their election processes through their local Clerk and Recorder office, and which parts of the election process should be determined and managed by the Secretary of State’s office?

To be truly a representative republic, we need to keep control of the elections at the county level by clerks that are elected by the people of their county. In Colorado that is 64 elected county clerks. Centralizing election control to one person (the Secretary of State) will be disastrous to our state and usher in federalized elections. The Secretary of State should be non partisan with duties to ensure special interests like Soros and Zuckerberg have no place or power over our elections. Transparency is an important role of the Secretary of State to ensure fair election’s processes and oversight.

As the Secretary of State is the supervisor of state elections, do you believe that elections in Colorado should be conducted differently? Should voters in Colorado be required to verify their identity and residential status in the respective counties in which they vote? Are you in favor of a single-day, in-person voting system consisting of all- paper ballots? Why or why not?

Yes, I definitely believe elections in Colorado should be conducted differently. Voting should go back to the one day precinct level, voter ID verification, voter lists that are checked off when a person presents themselves and no voting electronically. No ballot drop off boxes and only military and overseas voters receive absentee ballots unless a voter personally arranges beforehand to get an absentee ballot under certain circumstances and those ballots should be tracked when they are returned to insure no more are submitted than were issued. No more mail ballot voting. We have to go back to basics and accountability. Better nursing home and jail vote monitoring as well.

Do you support the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) system? Please explain.

Absolutely not. As stated earlier, David Becker of CEIR founded ERIC and ultimately received $69.5 million from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for CEIR. When you have non elected partisan actors allegedly entrenched with voter roles this needs to be investigated and withdrawal as Secretary of State from organizations like ERIC.

As Secretary of State, how will you address citizen complaints addressed to your office in a fair and timely manner?

I could not have had a successful business for over 32 years if customer service had not been my highest priority. Then after being elected to office I carried that same philosophy into public office in my 5 divisions as county clerk. I told my employees “they (the citizens) pay your wages and you need to be nice to them”. Soon the culture in the office changed. I laughed when the employees would tell me, “the customers are so nice now”. Addressing customer complaints in a proactive and timely manner with a empathetic focus on the ones we serve is respectful and is always the right thing to do. We implemented comment cards for the customers and always followed up.

From 2000 to 2020 I headed Colorado Lending Source, the largest nonprofit lender in the state, working with thousands upon thousands of Colorado small businesses, helping them access the financing they needed to grow, prosper and add more than 26,000 jobs to the state. Aside from election integrity, the mission of the Secretary of State is to “enhance commerce”. The Secretary of State’s Office could play a pivotal roll in helping rebuild Colorado’s economy but chooses not to do so. I seek to de-politicize the Office and return it to its business roots, enhancing the small business sector as well as returning long-absent integrity to our election system.

As Secretary of State, how will you seek to clean up the voter registration lists to eliminate all non- eligible voters?

The key to election integrity is a clean voter roll. Legislation will be needed to end the automatic voter registration process in Colorado which is at the root of all the non-eligible voters being added to the voter roll since 2019. We don’t need to waste taxpayer funds contracting with external third parties to maintain voter rolls. Control can be returned to counties for this with the Secretary of State’s Office directing but not dictating. As I review the voter roll, I am finding all sorts of issues that are easy to fix: duplicate voters; non- existent addresses; people “living” in a DMV or at business addresses; 8 or more voters with different last names “living” in single residences ….

To what extent should Colorado counties determine and manage their election processes through their local Clerk and Recorder office, and which parts of the election process should be determined and managed by the Secretary of State’s office?

Colorado counties should have a lot more control and say in managing the election process than they do currently. County Clerks know their communities better than the Secretary of State does and are better positioned to ensure that their voter rolls are accurate. The voter rolls in Colorado are a joke.

As the Secretary of State is the supervisor of state elections, do you believe that elections in Colorado should be conducted differently? Should voters in Colorado be required to verify their identity and residential status in the respective counties in which they vote? Are you in favor of a single-day, in-person voting system consisting of all- paper ballots? Why or why not?

There are lots of ways the elections in Colorado can be conducted more fairly and transparently. Yes, voters should be required to verify their identity and, if foreign born, their citizenship when registering to vote. I am in favor of everyone using paper ballots which contain watermarks and other security features to prevent duplication. There are certain populations who obviously won’t be able to vote in-person on election day due to age, incapacity, access, military service or other relevant considerations, so it won’t be possible to 100% eliminate mail-in ballots. In day voter registration, however, should be eliminated.

Do you support the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) system? Please explain.

No. We are paying good money to an out-of-state group for services that we can easily provide and, if necessary, pay for in-state. I purchase my own copy of the voter roll in January, and as I parse through it, only looking at addresses where there are eight or more active voters with different last names, I am finding so many errors and problems that if this is the sort of information ERIC is providing, we should stop using them immediately and get all our money back.

Aside from providing outward facing information on businesses in Colorado, the mission of the Secretary of State is to “enhance commerce” in addition to ensuring election integrity. Both are equally important. Politicians and career bureaucrats have no practical knowledge or experience of helping grow Colorado’s business economy. I have been accessing the Secretary of State’s database for many years as both a lender and a user. At Colorado Lending Source, I grew the organization from 2 employees to more than 40, initially designing and building my own database to help streamline operations. I have the appropriate experience to oversee all four divisions within the Office.

No, unless of course the issue fits within the purview of federal investigations that cross state line

As Secretary of State, how will you address citizen complaints addressed to your office in a fair and timely manner?

By being responsive, transparent, timely, and accountable. Yes, “customer service” isn’t a term that is usually paired in the same sentence with “government” however, I’m from the school that says you should always treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. That is how I approach everything I do in this world