Mesa County denies open records act request for election records

 In this letter, County Clerk Sheila Reiner rejected my CORA request for touchscreen detailed cast vote records (EL155),  and denied having the software system log required by the voting system.  She asserts that I must pay $248 (plus travel cost)  to review a paper copy of an electronic record, when she could just email an electronic copy to me.

More troublesome is her claim that she considers the public's records of anonymous votes cast on the touch-screen machines to be a "secret," to be maintained by the clerk and hand picked election officials. See my response to her specious claims.

Note that a similar denial was recieved from the Jefferson County clerk.

Hopefully, the public and press will soon start asking why the election officials are blocking public  access to fundamental election records.