Colorado GOP Chair Ken Buck pressured local official to submit incorrect election results

[kpete]

Colorado Republican Party Chair Ken Buck, a U.S. representative from Windsor, pressured a local party official to submit incorrect election results to set the primary ballot for a state Senate seat, according to an audio recording of a conference call obtained by The Denver Post.

“You’ve got a sitting congressman, a sitting state party chair, who is trying to bully a volunteer — I’m a volunteer; I don’t get paid for this — into committing a crime,” Eli Bremer, the GOP chairman for state Senate District 10, told The Post on Wednesday, confirming the authenticity of the recording. “To say it’s damning is an understatement.”

Buck says he was merely asking Bremer to abide by a committee decision.

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/05/06/colorado-ken-buck-gop-primary/#

[MissMillie]

1. They make such a fuss over "voter fraud"

which isn't really an issue

Then they pull stunts like this.

[sandensea]

4. Accusing opponents of one's own crimes is par for the course for GOPee miscreants

You see it in far-right parties in other countries as well (in Latin America, especially).

[ret5hd]

2. Sounds like the minutes of this conference call need to be subpoenaed:

The central committee consists of nearly 500 members, including elected officials and county officers. About 200 were on the line during an April 17 conference call in which the group voted to place Stiver on the ballot for the seat, even though he failed to receive 30% of the district’s votes.

[BComplex]

3. This country really needs to start making a capital crime out of election interference.

If our primary right is to vote, then interfering in that right is a huge crime. The penalties need to be swift and permanent.