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Former chairman of Colorado Republican Party suspected of voter fraud, forgery
Steve Curtis, the former chairman of Colorado’s Republican party and a talk radio host, has been charged in Weld County
By JESSE PAUL | jpaul@denverpost.com | The Denver PostPUBLISHED: March 21, 2017 at 5:31 pm | UPDATED: March 22, 2017 at 11:40 am
Former Colorado Republican party chairman Steve Curtis, 57, has been charged with voter fraud and forgery, prosecutors say.
Curtis, an AM radio talk show host, appeared Tuesday in Weld County District Court, where he was advised that he faces two counts in the case: forgery, a Class 5 felony, and misdemeanor voter fraud.
Weld County District Attorney’s spokesman Tyler Hill confirmed the charges, but said he couldn’t discuss details of the allegations, which were first reported by KDVR-Channel 31.
However a criminal complaint filed Feb. 1 says the forgery charge stems from “intent to defraud” a woman on the 2016 general election mail-in ballot. The complaint says Curtis lives in Aurora.
Hill said Curtis is due back in court on May 19.
The case stems from an investigation by the district attorney’s office, Hill said, following a probe by the Weld County clerk.
“We won’t be commenting through the proceedings,” said Christopher Gregory, Curtis’ attorney, when reached by phone on Tuesday evening.
Curtis was the state’s GOP chairman in the late 1990s. He is host of “Wake Up!” with Steve Curtis on radio station 560AM, KLZ The Source, according to the broadcaster’s website.
A station representative could not immediately be reached on Tuesday.
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/21/steve-curtis-voter-fraud-forgery/
Former chairman of Colorado Republican Party suspected of voter fraud, forgery
Steve Curtis, the former chairman of Colorado’s Republican party and a talk radio host, has been charged in Weld County
By JESSE PAUL | jpaul@denverpost.com | The Denver PostPUBLISHED: March 21, 2017 at 5:31 pm | UPDATED: March 22, 2017 at 11:40 am
Former Colorado Republican party chairman Steve Curtis, 57, has been charged with voter fraud and forgery, prosecutors say.
Curtis, an AM radio talk show host, appeared Tuesday in Weld County District Court, where he was advised that he faces two counts in the case: forgery, a Class 5 felony, and misdemeanor voter fraud.
Weld County District Attorney’s spokesman Tyler Hill confirmed the charges, but said he couldn’t discuss details of the allegations, which were first reported by KDVR-Channel 31.
However a criminal complaint filed Feb. 1 says the forgery charge stems from “intent to defraud” a woman on the 2016 general election mail-in ballot. The complaint says Curtis lives in Aurora.
Hill said Curtis is due back in court on May 19.
The case stems from an investigation by the district attorney’s office, Hill said, following a probe by the Weld County clerk.
“We won’t be commenting through the proceedings,” said Christopher Gregory, Curtis’ attorney, when reached by phone on Tuesday evening.
Curtis was the state’s GOP chairman in the late 1990s. He is host of “Wake Up!” with Steve Curtis on radio station 560AM, KLZ The Source, according to the broadcaster’s website.
A station representative could not immediately be reached on Tuesday.
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/21/steve-curtis-voter-fraud-forgery/
