The Colorado Secretary of State has removed Americans Elect from the list of qualified parties, even though it had 3,412 registered members as of May 2013. Colorado election law section 1-4-1303(b) says a party remains qualified if it has at least 1,000 registered members.

Employees of the Secretary of State’s office say the only person who can explain the rationale for the party’s loss of status is one particular employee, and she has not responded to phone messages for a period of almost eight hours ago, on August 2. I wanted to hold off blogging this news until I had talked to someone in the Secretary of State’s office, but because it doesn’t appear anyone in the office is willing to talk about it until Monday, August 5, at the earliest, I decided to post about this now.