Is an election denier a candidate for county clerk in Colorado? Suspicions validated

 A GOP candidate for County Clerk in Grand County, Colorado, Jolene Linke, was suspected by opponents of being an election denier, and when pressed, her answers did not lay those suspicions to rest.  When asked by the local newspapers, the SKY HI NEWS, if she thought the 2020 election was fair, she ignored the question. At a candidate forum on October 20 sponsored by the Winter Park Chamber of Commerce (which I attended), Linke replied to the question posed to her if she thought the 2020 election was fair, " the election in Grand County was fair", ignoring the state and national controversy. She continued advocating for changing the Dominion ballot tabulator machines to another company without expressing a reason. She was in step with the conspiracy theories surrounding Dominion,. She stood out as the only candidate at the forum, state, county, or legislative district, to avoid the question. All other candidates of both parties believed the 2020 election was fair in Colorado.  Her opponent, Abby Loberg, a Democrat, said she believed the 2020 election was fair and pointed out that Dominium was under contract with the county, which would likely cost taxpayers to break that contract. Loberg also said 63 other Colorado counties also used the Dominium system. Through Linke's evasive answers,  the suspicions she was an election denier were justified.. https://www.skyhinews.com/news/in-their-own-words-abby-loberg-and-jolene-linke-on-why-each-candidate-should-have-your-vote-for-grand-county-clerk-and-recorder-on-november-8/

See the Mufticforumblog post of October 6. More on the big lie:  suit against Dominion voting system bites the dust  (Mufticforumblog.blogspot.com).  Post: Edit (blogger.com)

More about Colorado county clerks entangled in 2020 election controversies in a September 14 blog post.:

Post: Edit (blogger.com)    The battle for election integrity begins at the county clerk level

Felicia Muftic is a former Clerk and Recorder of the City and County of Denver, 1984-1991

Update post election for Grand County:

https://www.skyhinews.com/.../final-grand-county-vote.../

Some observations per the Secretary of State: Grand County went blue for Polis by 453 votes, Bennet by less than 100, and Jena Griswold. by about 7 votes. In the rest of the state and local races, Grand County dem candidates more or less lost in the 200 vote range.

Per the article: Election denier Linke won by 1.46%. Loberg just missed winning by a squeaker. The most interesting statistic in the article I thought was turnout by party affiliation: This is an unaffiliated county hotbed:40.7%, GOP at 35.7%, and Dems at 21.9%. The usual political wisdom is that the unaffiliated breakout is similar to the party affiliation between the two parties....but that certainly was not the case in Grand County because high-profile federal and state races..were winners for Dems albeit no landslides!. (State treasurer and AG ) went red by less than 200 for margins). The GOP would have done much better if the libertarians had not voted...for as much as 363, 200, 140, and 118 in some races. Some seat-of-pants observations: there was a lot of ticket-splitting, and it favored Dems; registered independents are where dem hidden votes are, and we must understand that to do as well as we did, we must appeal to them.

Given our success at the high-profile federal and state level and near success for clerk and recorder, Grand County Dems benefitted from national controversies...abortion and democracy and LGTBQ rights. . All politics are not always local.