The Background
El Paso County — Colorado’s second-largest — just walked out of the Colorado County Clerks Association. Its clerk resigned as vice president. The association’s own bylaws show no authority for what was done to him.
That resignation cracked open something bigger. The CCCA is a private nonprofit that claims to speak for all 64 of Colorado’s elected county clerks. It sets the legislative agenda for Colorado’s election infrastructure, manages the relationship between county clerks and the Secretary of State, and controls the public messaging on election security.
It is not a government agency. It is not subject to open-meetings laws. And the people who run it have concurrent financial interests in the elections industry they oversee.
This three-part series follows the documents. Part one covers the resignation — what happened, who did it, and what the bylaws say. Part two maps the revolving door between the CCCA’s executive director office and the private consulting firms, federal contracts, and Zuckerberg-funded organizations that orbit Colorado elections. Part three tracks the legislative pipeline — who writes the election bills, who shapes the CCCA’s positions, and who gets frozen out.
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