When election deniers used legal loopholes to try to remove 23,000 voters from Jefferson County's rolls, Amanda stopped them. Every voter stayed registered. That strategy is now being used to protect voters across Colorado.

The next Secretary of State will face more attempts like that. Amanda will see them coming because she's already seen them. She'll know how to stop them because she's an election attorney with the legal expertise to win those fights. She's the only candidate in this race who's a lawyer, and she's the only candidate who has successfully blocked election attacks already.

Having the right to vote isn't the same as being able to cast a ballot. Amanda has spent her career closing that gap. She wrote Colorado's Automatic Voter Registration law, which signed up more than 250,000 new voters in its first year, as well as the multilingual ballot access law. She helped pass the country's first law requiring in-person voting in every county jail.

As Secretary of State, she'll keep finding the Coloradans who've been told their vote doesn't matter: working people, rural voters, young voters, voters with disabilities, anyone the system has left behind, and proving to them it does. When more people can vote, more people belong.

Trust starts with transparency. Studies show that voters are more likely to vote when they trust the system, and under Clerk Gonzalez's leadership, Jefferson County has delivered the largest number of ballots cast of any county in Colorado. Twice. And she's done that while coming in millions of dollars under budget. Every year, she provides tours of her election center to hundreds of community members who get their questions answered and become educated and engaged advocates for our elections. Her office has earned national election innovation awards three years in a row for her work to engage voters.

Transparency in elections needs to include campaign finance disclosures and Colorado's campaign finance system, TRACER, should be modernized and streamlined. Amanda has worked on stronger disclosure laws and clearer reporting because voters deserve to know who's funding campaigns. Step by step she's making our system work the way it's supposed to.

Colorado's elections are secure because we've built in layers of protection over the course of decades. Election security means protecting the ballot, the voter, the worker and the data, from threats that are physical and digital, foreign and domestic, large and small.

Amanda has upgraded video surveillance of Jefferson County's election spaces. She installed fire suppression systems for ballot drop boxes. She's written contingency plans for disruptions to the mail. She's increased security measures to protect election workers from harassment and threats. Voters trust election officials to defend their data, and she does.

Security isn't static. New threats keep coming: AI-generated disinformation, interference by the federal government, and attacks we haven't seen yet. As Secretary of State, Amanda will keep adding the layers Colorado needs.

The Secretary of State isn't just elections. It's where Colorado businesses register, where charities file, where notaries get commissioned. These systems touch nearly every Coloradan at some point, and they should actually work for the people using them.

Amanda already knows how to make them work. The Jefferson County DMV she runs has a 4.8-star Google rating with over 10,000 reviews. Yes, the DMV. Higher rated than most coffee shops.

When she heard that working Coloradans couldn't get passport appointments during business hours, she opened the Jefferson County passport office after hours. Several hundred people showed up on the first day. That's what it looks like when someone running a government office actually listens to the people using it.

As Secretary of State, Amanda will bring that same lens to systems that aren't working yet. She'll modernize TRACER, Colorado's political money database, and streamline business filings. She'll update outdated systems and improve customer service. Our government should welcome and work for all of us.