Residents tell Moffat County commissioners Dominion voting software is vulnerable; claims presented in public comment

Public commenters at the Moffat County Board of Commissioners meeting on Oct. 28 presented a letter and oral remarks alleging vulnerabilities in Dominion Voting Systems software and urging a return to hand-counted paper ballots.

Allison Anthony opened the series of remarks by reading an edited letter from attorney John Case, counsel for Tina Peters, saying, “new evidence which demonstrates that the Dominion software used in 60 counties in Colorado is vulnerable to manipulation by foreign and domestic bad actors.” Anthony said the material she read came from testimony by two former Venezuelan government officials alleging that Smartmatic software had been used to inject votes in foreign elections.

Tracy Winder, who identified herself as a Moffat County resident, continued the public comment and said the sequence of corporate sales connected Smartmatic, Sequoia and Dominion, asserting that “Dominion currently employs Ronald Morales and David Marino, the 2 Venezuelan engineers who created Smartmatic software with the capability to rig elections.” John Williams, another resident who identified himself as a Moffat County lawyer, urged the county to consider terminating any future appropriations for Dominion equipment and to return to in‑person, precinct-based paper ballot hand counts.

Those remarks included legal and constitutional references. The letter read into the record cited Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution and Article II, Section 5 of the Colorado Constitution, arguing that, if the systems can be manipulated, those constitutional guarantees are threatened. Speakers also referenced a U.S. Department of Justice superseding indictment involving Smartmatic executives dated Oct. 17, 2025; speakers characterized that federal action as relevant to the safety of voting systems in Colorado.

Opposition to the allegations came from a member of the public who identified himself as an experienced election judge. Louis Swaimore said he has been a Moffat County resident for almost 50 years and, speaking from his experience, he has not observed fraud in the local system and described Colorado’s mail‑ballot process as effective.

The board did not take any policy action on the comments during the meeting. The statements were made during the public comment period; no staff report or formal investigation was launched at the meeting and no vote was recorded on election equipment or contracts.