Colorado’s Democrat-controlled Legislature couldn’t wait to pass a “comprehensive” package of “progressive” election law changes last year that allowed same-day voter registration.  Critics who opposed the partisan bill, including the state’s top election official and every GOP legislator, warned that the law’s ambiguity on residency and removal of the period in which to verify voters’ eligibility would enable fraud.  One senator even suggested that HB 13-1303 should be called the “Same Day Voter Fraud Act.”

Now the very Democrats who supported the lax new election rules, like Christy Le Lait, former campaign manager for recalled Democrat Senate President John Morse, are miffed that Denver activist Jon Caldara won’t be prosecuted for voter fraud – because he followed their law.

“I think (Caldara) got away with voter fraud,” Le Lait told The Denver Post.

The state disagreed, thanks to the “anything goes” voting law enacted by Le Lait’s old boss and his Progressive-Democrat pals.  “After an extensive, months-long inquiry by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, Caldara has been cleared… because the attorney general can find no reasonable means of prosecuting him.”

As predicted, the AG “could neither confirm nor disprove Caldara’s self-affirmation of an intention to make District 11 a permanent home… That was Caldara’s point… That’s why we’ve long required a modicum of residential stability before allowing someone to vote in a community election. We want voters who’ve invested at least a few weeks in a locale before helping determine who governs it. We want voters who actually live in a jurisdiction, not those willing to espouse intended residency for the sake of promoting special interests.”

“If prosecutors can’t charge someone who exploited the law, after summoning cameras and reporters to the scene, they certainly can’t contend with run-of-the-mill abuse committed in silence.”