Widgetized Section

Go to Admin » Appearance » Widgets » and move Gabfire Widget: Social into that MastheadOverlay zone

MyPillow election denier Lindell targets Colorado clerk and recorders, including Eagle County

By
September 28, 2024, 10:34 am
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, left, stands alongside convicted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters at a 2022 event in Denver (Kevin Mohatt for Colorado Newsline).

Conspiracy theorists and 2020 election deniers, led by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, continue to target Colorado’s gold-standard elections, including right here in Eagle County.

According to the Colorado Times Recorder, Lindell’s election fraud conspiracy group, called the Election Crime Bureau (ECB), sent a form email to county clerks in Colorado and around the nation seeking information on their county’s election security measures.

“Yes, we did receive this email, but our team and the Eagle County IT team quickly recognized it as spam,” Eagle County Clerk & Recorder Regina O’Brien told RealVail.com in an email on Friday. “No links in the email were clicked.”

Here’s more on the attempted scam from the Colorado Times Recorder:

“Across Colorado, county clerks are preparing for the first presidential election since former President Donald Trump denied the results of his 2020 loss. The conspiracy theories he and his supporters promoted ultimately led not only to the attack on our country’s Capitol, but to localized threats of violence against election officials nationwide as well as here in Colorado.

“One of the most prominent election fraud conspiracy theorists is MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who, after his attempt to convince Trump to consider retaining power via martial law failed, decided to fund a group of Colorado election deniers to launch a national version of their state-based conspiracy club. 

“Early this month, Rolling Stone reported that Lindell’s election fraud conspiracy group, dubbed the Election Crime Bureau (ECB), sent a form email to county clerks in Georgia. The email asked clerks for information on their county’s election security measures and used the subject line: ‘Election Integrity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC),’ which is the name of a real federal government organization designed to help election officials conduct safe and secure elections.

“Lindell’s group sent the same email to clerks nationwide, including in Colorado. Reached via text, Lindell says that ‘many [clerks] in Colorado returned the surveys,’ but declined to provide a total number or any names. Lindell has continued to be personally active in Colorado and not just because he’s being sued for defamation by Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems. Last month he gave the keynote address at the El Paso County Republicans Lincoln Day Dinner.

“The Center for Election Security, which houses EI-ISAC, sent out an advisory warning to election officials across the country the same day ECB sent its email. One of the substantive questions on the ECB survey was about a security device called an Albert sensor, which detects attempts to hack into secure networks. Election conspiracists have been pushing for local officials to remove the devices, with some success in conservative counties.”

Eagle County and Colorado voting information

Ballots in Colorado will be mailed starting Oct. 11, and county clerks recommend putting them in the mail on or before Oct. 28 to arrive by 7 p.m. on Election Day, which is Tuesday, Nov. 5. Postmarks alone do not count.

Eagle County’s 24-hour ballot boxes, which are the most popular return method in the county, also open on Oct. 11. Vote centers open Oct. 21, and all 24-hour ballot box and vote center locations and dates are listed on the Eagle County Clerk & Recorder’s website.

O’Brien adds: “Also, voters who are not in Eagle County when they want to return their ballots can drop a ballot in any Colorado county clerk-controlled ballot box. As long as the ballot is in the box by 7 p.m. on Election Day, the receiving county will secure the ballot and get it to us. We do the same, obviously, for other counties.”

Asked about concerns nationally that mail delays could impact the upcoming election, which pits election-denier and former President Trump against Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket, O’Brien tried to allay concerns locally.

“We work very closely with our local postmasters and regional [United State Postal Service] contacts,” O’Brien wrote. “We have open lines of communication throughout the ballot mailing and delivery process so our postmasters know exactly when Eagle County ballots drop. Furthermore, if a voter brings a delivery issue to our attention, we work directly with the postmaster or regional contact to investigate and resolve any issues. These local relationships have been great in solving issues in real-time and for each voter.”

United States Postal Service Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified before Congress on Thursday that voters can “absolutely” trust their mail-in ballots, according to Colorado Newsline.

Again, for more information on voting locally, go to the Eagle County Clerk & Recorder’s website. For information on registering to vote in Colorado, go to the Colorado Secretary of State’s website.

The following two tabs change content below.
My Twitter profile

David O. Williams

Managing Editor at RealVail
David O. Williams is the editor and co-founder of RealVail.com and has had his awarding-winning work (see About Us) published in more than 75 newspapers and magazines around the world, including 5280 Magazine, American Way Magazine (American Airlines), the Anchorage Daily News (Alaska), the Anchorage Daily Press (Alaska), Aspen Daily News, Aspen Journalism, the Aspen Times, Beaver Creek Magazine, the Boulder Daily Camera, the Casper Star Tribune (Wyoming), the Chicago Tribune, Colorado Central Magazine, the Colorado Independent (formerly Colorado Confidential), Colorado Newsline, Colorado Politics (formerly the Colorado Statesman), Colorado Public News, the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Colorado Springs Independent, the Colorado Statesman (now Colorado Politics), the Colorado Times Recorder, the Cortez Journal, the Craig Daily Press, the Curry Coastal Pilot (Oregon), the Daily Trail (Vail), the Del Norte Triplicate (California), the Denver Daily News, the Denver Gazette, the Denver Post, the Durango Herald, the Eagle Valley Enterprise, the Eastside Journal (Bellevue, Washington), ESPN.com, Explore Big Sky (Mont.), the Fort Morgan Times (Colorado), the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, the Greeley Tribune, the Huffington Post, the King County Journal (Seattle, Washington), the Kingman Daily Miner (Arizona), KUNC.org (northern Colorado), LA Weekly, the Las Vegas Sun, the Leadville Herald-Democrat, the London Daily Mirror, the Moab Times Independent (Utah), the Montgomery Journal (Maryland), the Montrose Daily Press, The New York Times, the Parent’s Handbook, Peaks Magazine (now Epic Life), People Magazine, Powder Magazine, the Pueblo Chieftain, PT Magazine, the Rio Blanco Herald Times (Colorado), Rocky Mountain Golf Magazine, the Rocky Mountain News, RouteFifty.com (formerly Government Executive State and Local), the Salt Lake Tribune, SKI Magazine, Ski Area Management, SKIING Magazine, the Sky-Hi News, the Steamboat Pilot & Today, the Sterling Journal Advocate (Colorado), the Summit Daily News, United Hemispheres (United Airlines), Vail/Beaver Creek Magazine, Vail en Español, Vail Health Magazine, Vail Valley Magazine, the Vail Daily, the Vail Trail, Westword (Denver), Writers on the Range and the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Williams is also the founder, publisher and editor of RealVail.com and RockyMountainPost.com.