Don't count on Colorado AG candidate.Allen to defend vote integrity, protect us from ICE and attacks on reproductive rights

 So much has been made of whether one or the other is a better administrator, but what far more crucially counts in the race for Colorado Attorney General is what the AG likely will do or not do. We have a good idea from GOP Michael Allen's past actions and statements of what Allen likely will NOT do. Don't count on him to protect vote integrity and ballot access convenience, to defy Trump's attempt to take over Colorado's control of who, where, and how we vote, to stop ICE's excessive use of force, or to protect against attacks on the Colorado Constitution's protection of women's reproductive rights. Democrat Jena Griswold is on the opposite side from Allen in all of these issues, and she has already proved her effectiveness in their defense.

The single case made by supporters of Michael Allen, GOP, is that he is a better manager. Unlike Griswold, he is also a prosecuting attorney in the courtroom, a skill AGs rarely, if ever, use, because there is a whole division that does that in the AG's office. That attack line is also an attempt to get voters away from focusing on what important issues are at stake. Allen claims Griswold is a poor manager based on skimpy evidence and is an arguable judgment call. If Griswold, as Secretary of State,, was "such a poor manager," she certainly has been effective, including keeping in check rogue county clerks who failed to keep elections fair and free during her tenure. Her business service sections ran smoothly, as well.(As a small business owner, I use her office frequently)

-Allen likely will not use his skills to protect ballot integrity..He follows the agenda of election deniers. He supports the suppressive SAVE Act and prefers in-person voting instead of mail-in ballots., Griswold has shown grit, courage, and skill in protecting fair and free elections as Secretary of State, including bringing Tina Peters to face justice. for breaking rules that had assured bi-partisan scrutiny control over the count. and then lying in a cover-up. Griswold successfully defied Trump's demand to turn over protected voter rolls as Secretary of State, and protected the gold-standard mail-in system.

- Allen will likely not protect Colorado from excessive force and cruelty of ICE. He supports ICE activities in Colorado; Griswold promises action to stop ICE's illegal actions.

- Allen likely will not protect challenges to the state constitution, which protects a woman's right to choose, because he is an extreme advocate against abortion even in the case of rape and incest, and opposed that same amendment that protects women's reproductive rights. Griswold is a firm supporter of women's reproductive rights.

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-hidden-agendas-in-race-for-colorado.html

Griswold on Tina Peters on 60 Minutes:https://www.facebook.com/reel/1754112445691420

The Hidden Agendas in the race for Colorado Attorney General

 There are e hidden agendas in the race for Colorado's Attorney General. Two powerful positions in Colorado government control how, where, and who gets to vote., Secretary of State and Attorney General. Both are on the ballot November 3; It is where the battle between "election deniers" such as the GOP candidate for Attorney General, Michael Allen, and Jena Griswold, the Democrat's candidate. It is where state control of elections plays out in n the attorney general's race. It is also about who will defend Colorado's "right to choose" if a foe of women's reproductive rights is in the AG's saddle. While these are lurking elephant-in-the-room issues now, they will be even hotter in the next two years leading up to the presidential campaigns.

Both of these agendas should also be viewed in context as a nationwide GOP strategy to support election deniers in key governmental positions and the always continuing drive to force all states to be anti-reproductive rights. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/politics/a-growing-number-of-election-deniers-hold-key-local-roles-in-midterms.html

On one side is Jena Griswold, who has effectively defended with guts and success on the national stage state-by-state control of elections as Secretary of State, Democrat, and on the other hand is Michael Allen, GOP El Paso DA, who embraces "election denier" policies such as "preferring in-person voting" over mail-in voting and the oppressive SAVE Act, among core positions. Also under attack by Allen's MAGA cohorts in the next four years will be the perennial issue of women's reproductive rights and Trump's attempt to meddle in the 2028 presidential elections with bully tactics, including ICE or military presence. The resistance against both attacks will be played out in the courts, and who is Attorney General is critical to the outcome. Grriswold on 60 Minutes regarding Tina Peters: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1754112445691420

Griswold also attacked Allen's who hearted support of ICE and its cruelty, and his pledge to overturn Colorado laws standing in the way of full cooperation with them on immigrant issues. https://coloradonewsline.com/2026/10/15/griswold-allen-attorney-general-debate/

Allen has successfully buried these major issues by claiming, without specific evidence or concrete examples, that he is a better administrator than Griswold. For claiming she is a poor administrator, dang, she certainly has been effective in holding off Trump's attacks on our elections. Allen experience he touts has been effective in supporting election denial and ballot issues banning abortion in the case of rape and incest, too. Griswold is a supporter of reproductive rights, while Allen has supported ballot initiatives banning abortion even in the case of rape and incest. Those are the elephants in the room that are the hidden agenda of his supporters.

There is a good reason why Allen and his supporters are trying to make some experience and administrative reasons to vote for him. He is out of step with both mail-in ballots and the issue of women's choice. 87% of Colorado voters are satisfied with the system and 65% are pro-choice per polls and evidence cited in a Google AI seaarch. Even the issue of "experience" is a campaign theme has its problems. https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-message-to-my-friends-who-have.html

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-elephant-in-room-of-colorado.html

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-message-to-my-friends-who-have.html

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/michael-allen-gop-candidate-for.html

What about the amendments? Hidden agendas in many. Most of those ballot initiatives and  proposals are from groups outside of Colorado, and part of national agendas...such as tricking voters using mail-in to put their personal information on the outside mailing envelope. .Bye bye secret balloting.   The one human trafficking is particularly bad because it punishes some victims, and some are charging it is a secret way to keep women in southern states from seeking an abortion in Colorado...though that theory has not been tested yet.  It is not a referendum on human trafficking, and it will likely accomplish nothing since the penalties are hefty already.  Wonder where the GOP candidates for Congress and Senate are on releasing unredacted Epstein files?  For an excellent article on dark money and dark advocates on amendments, sorry for the paywall, but the Denver Post had an excellently researched analysis: 

https://www.denverpost.com/2026/10/21/amendment-84-dark-money-fundraising-governors-race/

How popular is mail-in voting in Colorado? 87% like the election system.https://copollinginstitute.org/release/87-of-colorado-voters-say-theyre-satisfied-with-states-election-system/

What percentage in Colorado support women's reproductive rights? Per Google AI"Public Support and Polling

• Majority Approval: Polling consistently shows that roughly 65% of Coloradans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, a rate higher than the national average. [1]
• Ballot Measure Approval: Colorado Amendment 79, which solidified abortion access and protections in the state, passed with 62% of the vote. [1]

Like the SAVE ACT? Guess what: your driver's license is not prrof of citizenship needed to vote.

 Ignorance about the SAVE Act and which ID is required to prove citizenship persists. What I hear is," What's wrong. I get to show my driver's license for other services. Guess what: driver's licenses are NOT an acceptable ID per the SAVE ACT, which for many must be a surprise. Got a current passport? Got a state-certified copy of your birth certificate? Those count.to prove citizenship. Driver's licenses do not. If your name changed because of marriage, or other reasons, or you are too old or from a rural area to even have a birth certificate, or too poor to get a passport, you would be SOL if this SAVE Act became law..Those hurt the most by this SAVE act are married women who took their husband's name, the poor, and the rural elderly.. That fits the profile of many GOP voters. The SAVE ACT failed to pass in the Senate, though it passed in the House.

The attack by the GOP on voters' rights has other issues of import than the defeated SAVE Act, with its burdensome proof-of-citizenship requirements with which many in both parties could not comply.. The GOP candidate for Attorney General "Prefers" in-person voting, which means the end of mail-in ballots. The current secretary of state, Jena Griswold, is running for Colorado Attorney General as a Democrat.

This statement appeared on a Facebook site on October 7, attacking her opponent. Note that her GOP opponent prefers "in-person voting," which is a code for ending mail-in ballots that 90% of Colorado voters use to cast ballots, and his opponent also wants ID verification- a vague comment when his party came of with the now-defeated SAVE Act as part of that ending mail-in voting, requiring in-person voting at a polling place. This end of mail-in voting is a loser in Colorado,

"As Colorado’s Secretary of State, Jena Griswold refused to turn over Coloradans’ sensitive voter data to the federal government and has consistently stood up against Trump's attacks on elections. But where does Michael Allen stand? In 2024, he said, “I would prefer in-person voting that includes ID verification.” And he was silent as Trump tried to take federal control over mail ballots. "The end of mail-in voting is a loser in Colorado,

"As Colorado’s Secretary of State, Jena Griswold refused to turn over Coloradans’ sensitive voter data to the federal government and has consistently stood up against Trump's attacks on elections. But where does Michael Allen stand? In 2024, he said “I would prefer in-person voting that includes ID verification.” And he was silent as Trump tried to take federal control over mail ballots.  "I

From a prior post:

SAVE us from SAVE: The radical piece of legislation before the Senate would have at least three particularly obnoxious provisions designed to keep certain groups of people from voting, or would require extraordinary efforts and money to prove citizenship. Particularly harmed by the requirement to provide proof of citizenship would be married women, the poor, and seniors who do not have passports or cannot find or get certified copies of birth certificates, divorce, and name change papers so they match driver's licenses with a photo. ID.. It would expose personal data now held by separate states to partisan centralized federal officials, for suppression targeting methods and dirty tricks. The motivation for this piece of legislation is not to enhance vote integrity but to give the advantage to the GOP in the midterms. Trump has admitted that.

Their whole premise is built on a lie that illegals voted and caused Trump to lose in 2020, for which no evidence has ever been found.

Another excuse Trump likes to make for his loss in 2020 was that there was extensive fraud in mail-in ballots. Therefore, his answer: only ballots received by election day should be counted... cutting out most active military votes or leaving them subject to the whims of the postal delivery service. (A lower court also scotched that postal service role this week)Some states would have to change their already existing rules and laws to conform. In fact, a study taken exposes Trump's claim as BS, and I cannot find any evidence to the contrary. (The SCOTUS 6/29 decision left the status quo in place)

More on the SAVE attack on voters' ability to vote:

1) It would keep married women from voting if their ID does not match their birth certificate names or even passport names. (Estimated 50 percent of voters do not have passports). What does your driver's license have as your photo ID name? Divorce papers would also have to be produced, or legal documentation of name changes would have to be provided.

2) All of your personal information, driver's licenses, Social Security numbers, and personal data held by State officials would have to be handed over to the Department of Homeland Security as they search first for registered illegals, turn out ICE to "protect" their own voting interests at polling places,, and God knows what else it could be used for if say a dictator who may not be one you supports takes over now or in the future.

3) This federalization enables big brother government to manipulate elections to suit the outcome they want by giving them the tools to identify targeting groups or kinds of legal voters that may not support them by voting roll purges and other strategies. The beauty of the current state control of such information is that 50 states can control their data instead of one federal government, in the hands of a party or single strong leader, being able to affect the outcome and votes in elections.

.The premise used to rationalize this legislation is stopping illegals from voting, a line MAGA has swallowed whole without any thought or care about evidence. For over 6 years, proof of the"steal" of the 2020 vote has been investigated, rejected by courts and hearings, and never proved. It is still just a theory to excuse a loss or a suspicion. Never mind, keeping certain voters from voting is a political strategy that MAGA embraces because they see a political advantage for them in the midterms. Heads up MAGA. You may not always be in control of the Oval Office, Congress, or the judiciary. What happens if the shoe is on the other foot, and the people you consider to be political enemies are now in power?

The elephant in the room of Colorado elections : who controls elections:Trump or Colorado

 Jena Griswold, current Colorado Secretary of State and now the Democratic Party winner in the primaries for Attorney General, is engaged in a very strange campaign.  She faced three opponents in the primary, none of whom garnered more than around 15-17% of the vote and who attempted to defeat her based on her management style. However, none of them even acknowledged the national debate on who controls elections in the face of Trump's ongoing attempt to federalize elections and control the outcome on his behalf. Griswold served as the leader of the nation's Democratic Secretaries of State (at the state level) and did much to protect genuine voter integrity from election deniers and from Trump's attempt to seize control of the election process. State control of elections (not by the federal government) was granted in the Constitution.  

Update: 9/10/2026 Paul Lopez, Denver Clerk and Recorder, is not waiting for ICE to be at polling places to take action: He and Latino groups in Denver are suing ICE to prevent them from being at polling places.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/us/elections/denver-ice-agents-voting-sites-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AFE.h8sy.JirhIgvmofXl&smid=url-share.  ICE at polling places are "intimidating" and "chilling", per Lopez..   Around 1/3 of Denver's population is Latino, per census data. 

The pretense for any plan to place ICE agents at polling places because non-citizens are voting in the US is, even by Trump's own questionable study, is a false pretense. DHS in 2026 in a study that claimed very questionable numbers and methods, said they found thousands, but even then, there were not enough incidents to have changed any outcome. https://www.npr.org/2026/08/19/nx-s1-5938799/trump-census-bureau-noncitizen-voting.  

In the primary this year, Griswold didn't raise the issue of who controls elections;  the state Democratic Party didn't raise it; her opponents didn't raise it; and the GOP itself did not either. There is a very big elephant in the room that is getting tiptoed around,  and I don't get it. Now, the same anti-Griswold campaign has appeared on social media today in time to kick off the general election in Colorado in November, in which Griswold is on the ballot for Attorney General.  That line of attack failed before in the primary, and there is no reason to believe it will succeed in the general. They are while referring to a 5-year-old negative report on her management style and claim she hid it. What is at stake is a national story..This is a deep blue state.  I, in all of my years in politics, have never seen anything like it when a state election's national implications are ignored as if they did not exist.

As a former election official myself, I have prided myself on supporting the clean election system that Colorado has (including that over 80% of ballots are "mailed in"). The mail-in system was constructed by GOP leadership and administered to the T by subsequent Secretaries of State, including Democrats like Griswold.  Colorado has had the most controversial free elections in the US. Its mail-in system uses, I hear, FBI-trained handwriting clerks of both parties to verify the ballots, and it is considered the gold standard in the US. For that reason alone, Griswold deserves accolades for her administrative skills and adherence to the rule of law. For an alleged  Gov. Polis or gubernatorial candidate/AG Phil Weiser or name identification for Griswold’s win in the primary, totally ignoring the elephant in the room: who controls elections- Trump or the state of Colorado. There was national focus on the big issue of whether election deniers could get away with grabbing the ballots and tabulation of the vote and sequestering them and giving authorized access to partisans because their allegiance was to Trump.. She disciplined county clerks for not following the carefully laid out rules of the state they were sworn to uphold on taking office. The most famous case was concerning Tina Peters. Griswold, with the help of the AG's office attorneys, beat Trump at his game. She had locked up the ballots in her county and gave access to a Trump partisan, putting up a co-worker to help her do it, and then covered it up with lies. This destroyed the chain of evidence and the required surveillance by others not in her party. Trump intervened to "free her" from a jury trial conviction, putting her in prison because she had committed a crime and a cover-up.  Peters became Trump's icon of the ideal county clerk: "defy local rules and do as I say", instead. Now it is no secret that Trump wants all election officials to act like Peters and control the election count to his benefit. Peters is his role model. There appear to have been election deniers placed in official positions all over the country. In Colorado, all GOP candidates for state offices- AG, SOS, governor- are election deniers, sworn to rectify the "stolen 2020 election."

  On the issue of Trump's demand that the details of all registered voters on state rolls be turned over to the feds, Griswold defied him, too, and that is another reason to admire her. Yesterday, Trump's demands to turn over voter rolls to the feds met their 23rd defeat in federal courts... as courts denied Trump's demand. We are now awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on Trump's demand to make the post office the agency to deny mail-in ballot delivery using those voter rolls. Trump has declared war on mail-in ballots, and that he uses them was yesterday’s headline. In the meantime, Trump has attempted to force Colorado to bend to his will by denying federal funds to Colorado, from food stamps to fighting wildfires, because we defied his demands as he tries to control the Nov midterm outcomes and lay the groundwork for another attempt to claim the election was stolen, as he told you in advance it was going to happen. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/politics/a-growing-number-of-election-deniers-hold-key-local-roles-in-midterms.htm

lhttps://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-threatened-colorado-funding-as-punishment-over-tina-peters-judge-finds/https://www.denverpost.com/2026/08/14/colorado-donald-trump-tina-peters/

https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/trump-colorado-voter-data-federal-judge

/https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/analyzing-presidents-executive-order-mail-voting

https://www.cpr.org/2026/08/14/trump-retaliation-colorado-email-tina-peters/?

https://www.denverpost.com/2026/08/14/colorado-donald-trump-tina-peters/

Trump and Tina Peters:  Trump takes care of his criminally convicted loyalists. Peters lands a job in California. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/california-senators-call-for-maximum-oversight-over-conspiracist-tina-peters-new-election-job/?

Update on Peter's doings, 10/9/2026: Kyle Clark on Ch9 reported that Tina Peters had met with the White House to discuss having all election officials secure ballots for the GOP, as she did, and gave unauthorized access and control to a Trump loyalist, as she did in Colorado. She also tried to cover it up and lied. She was convicted by a jury. That got her the prison term under state law. She served 4 years until Trump pressured Gov. Polis to let her out early. She now thinks all election officials should commit the same crimes in her warped sense of what voter integrity means. In her meeting at the White House, she also supported a civil war. That is insane.

How Colorado detects fraud: https://coloradonewsline.com/2024/10/24/fraudulent-ballots-mesa-county-colorado/

/what really is at stake in the Colorado AG';s race and why Griswold's opponents have been engaged mostly in character attacks

 I have seen some interesting local media articles, one from the Denver Post carrying a story that the GOP sees a real chance to win the  Colorado AG seat this November (of course, they have a plan, and this helps), and another hit job article today is focusing on Jena Griswold's alleged lie about an outhouse as a symbol of her alleged bad character. Heads up. Griswold's race is about democracy, not about ouhouses.In Colorado, in November, the issue is whether the GOP can get their election-denying candidate into the AG seat so they can control the outcome in 2028. This kind of character assassination campaign against Griswold is just the warm-up for the GOP's main event.  The three GOP candidates ...AG. SOS and gov...are all election deniers. Democracy is at stake, and Colorado is ground zero.

Griswold's opponents in the Democratic primary are serving the GOP's purposes, whether they intend it or not, by also relying on character assassination, with nary a word from them about experience, platform, or priorities related to election integrity in Colorado. This race has already had national attention because of Griswold's successful protection of the integrity of the ballot and its counting in the face of at least 3 elections denying Trump loyal county clerks playing illegal keepaway of ballots and/or calculators,from bipartisan hands as proscribed by law. Tina Peters, Trump's poster child for loyalty to him above sworn duty, is one of those clerks...FYI, Peters also committed crimes in her cover-up, and Griwold and the Colorado AG caught her at it and put her in jail. Her conviction was by jury trial and upheld on appeal, though Polis released her after she had served half her term.

. Jena Griswold's Democratic primary opponents for attorney general (AG) have no experience with what the job of AG mostly entails. .. Claiming Griswold is a bad administrator is political BS. Business records and elections ran smoothly during her terms as Secretary of State. That's the bottom line. She successfully ran a large state 300-person enforcement office, while at the same time fighting election deniers and the Trump attempt at a federal takeover of our elections. (.Griswold is a national leader in this effort as Secretary of State... SOS). and the GOP is running an election denier in the general. The race has national attention because of this issue, and her primary opponents have neither experience nor have acknowledged anything about the real issue of election denial. So what if her trial experience is lacking?AG's are rarely the ones doing the trials. There is a whole section of trial attorneys among the 300 attorneys in a 700-attorney staff office, which an AG must also manage. Griwsold's primary opponents are inexperienced in managing a large enforcement office and unaware of what issues are really at stake.

Campaign tactics opposing Jena Griswold for AG are deflective and deceptive

From Felicia Muftic's posting on Facebook (The Muftic Forum) 6/17/2026 and from a response to a meme on 6/21/2026, Jena Griswold's opponents have no experience in what the job of AG mostly calls for. ..either in the administration ( Business records and elections ran smoothly during her terms as Secretary of State..the bottom line)) or of a large enforcement office, or in fighting election deniers and the federal takeover of our elections. (.Griswold is a national leader in this effort as SOS). AG's are rarely the ones doing the trials. There is a whole section of trial attorneys among the 300 attorneys in a 700-attorney staff office, which an AG must also manage.. The GOP in Colorado is running election deniers for SOS, AG, and Governor.

 Heads up on what issue is at stake in the next couple of years.

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Once again...I am getting references to a few articles in some media, posted by opponents to Secretary of State Jena Griswold's candidacy for Attorney General of Colorado, and accepted as if they were gospel truth, claiming that Griswold is a terrible manager and has a bad character. These are deflective and deceptive campaign tactics. Give me a break: if she were such a bad manager, how does it happen that she as Secretary of State, ran years of fair and free elections, administered well the business records section, user-friendly, too, and kept elections from subversion of the ballot and tabulating by election deniers. This resulted in the conviction of Tina Peters, who had answered Trump's call instead of her oath (Peters's conviction was never overturned; the length of the sentence was at issue). A campaign of character assassination is being conducted now, misleading the public in understanding what both the AG and the Secretary of State do. Worse, it will benefit those who want to turn attention away from the real issue facing us until November 2028: who will protect the integrity of the ballots best, election deniers or those best equipped to protect Colorado's control of the election process? FYI, trial attorneys without the kind of administrative and demonstrated enforcement experience she has are opposing her in the primary and show no interest or understanding of protecting elections from election deniers or giving it priority. AG has a whole section of trial attorneys to handle courtroom drama, as they did so well in the Peters case. Being a trial attorney is not what the AG is all about. If Grislwold survives the primary, these kinds of character assassinations will only benefit a GOP election-denier candidate in the general