Monday,

February 13, 2017 at 12:22:08 PM Eastern Standard Time

Subject: FW: Why are Colorado Republicans a6emp8ng to reduce oversight powers of candidates, and the
party and damage elec8on transparency?
Date: Monday, February 13, 2017 at 12:19:42 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Marilyn Marks

From: Marilyn Marks <marilyn@aspenoce.com>

Date: Monday, February 13, 2017 at 12:12 PM
To: Peg Cage <Peg@PegCage.com>, Marty Neilson <marty5539@gmail.com>,
"leo.jankowski@gmail.com" <leo.jankowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Mary Eberle <m.eberle@wordrite.com>, "harvie@elec8onquality.com"
<harvie@elec8onquality.com>, "charlesaz42@aol.com" <charlesaz42@aol.com>, Laura Woods
<senatorlaurawoods@gmail.com>, Vicki Marble <victoriam91@yahoo.com>, Florence Sebern
<fsebern@gmail.com>, Kathryn Porter <kat@spectrumparen8ng.com>, Al Kolwicz
<Al@AlKolwicz.net>, "senatorlundberg@gmail.com" <senatorlundberg@gmail.com>, Becky Mizel
<becky.mizel@gmail.com>, George Athanasopoulos <gjathanasopoulos@googlemail.com>
Subject: Why are Colorado Republicans a6emp8ng to reduce oversight powers of candidates, and the
party and damage elec8on transparency?

Peg, Leo and Marty,

I was appalled to learn that Senator Tate is bringing a bill (SB17-138) to dramatically cut back on
watcher rights. Apparently, the bill is in front of State Affairs Wednesday. Watcher rights stripped
from the party and campaigns in recent years need to be returned to the party, not further
curtailed.

I urge you to step back to see the big picture. The President and many of his supporters are
claiming that voter fraud accounted for millions of votes in November. 62% of Trump voters believe
that millions of fraudulent votes were cast in November. VP Pence is purportedly going to lead an
investigation to determine the extent of such problems. Congress is undertaking a review of election
hacking by the Russians, where we know that Russians attempted to infiltrate 20 states voter
registration systems. Experts are reporting scores of thousands of vote-counting anomalies in swing
states where reviews are taking place. So the Colorado Republican Senates answer to these
deeply concerning questions is to reduce election transparency and oversight??? To make less
information available to the party and campaigns?

Voter privacy is being used as a partial excuse to keep watchers from reviewing information
needed to verify voter eligibility, voter signatures, vote counts, computer tabulations, etc. Almost all
other states have far more open processes than Colorado, permitting any voter to have enough
information to challenge any of these things. Other states use common sense controls like
permitting viewing and verification of signatures without permitting the observers to copy the
signatures. That is but one example.

Colorados all mail ballot elections are known to be some of the most vulnerable in the nation
because of the problems with mail ballot elections---acknowledged even by the most left-leaning
experts. Why in the world are Colorado Republicans bringing legislation to make the elections
impenetrable to party and campaign oversight?
This further shifts the power in elections from the people to the government officialsand unhealthy,
undemocratic and unprincipled shift.

I urge you as leaders in the Executive Committee of the COGOP to take a strong stand against this
ill-considered bill. Further, why arent Republicans bringing bills to restore the partys, candidates,

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medias rights to oversee elections?

Although I now live and vote in NC, I see the importance of Colorados elections to the nation.
Please move to protect the partys interest, Colorados election integrity and the related interest of
the country at large.

Thank you for your consideration.

Marilyn Marks

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