Election Officials Helped Expose Bizarre City Council Forgery Case

DENVER (CBS4) – Prosecutors say Denver’s election officials blew the whistle on a 44-year-old woman who was trying to land on last May’s city ballot by forging signatures and using the identities of people who had died.
Corrie Houck, a Democrat, was trying to run for a city council seat in Denver’s southwest district in 2015.
Houck’s first petition to be on the ballot was declined on a technicality. She was then told she had one day to gather the required 100 valid