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2026 Colorado Secretary of State — General Election · November 3, 2026
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2026 General Election Official Candidate List
This list is official and reflects what was certified to the counties on September 4.
Candidate name: James Wiley
Office: Secretary of State
District: State
Party: Republican Party
Write in?: N
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2026 General Election Official Candidate List
This list is official and reflects what was certified to the counties on September 4.
Candidate name: James Wiley
Office: Secretary of State
District: State
Party: Republican Party
Write in?: N
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These experiences form the foundation of my conviction that Colorado's public records must be revolutionized through blockchain—the "Liberty Ledger." By digitizing and embedding all official records, from historic land grants issued under Abraham Lincoln to modern voter registrations, property deeds, business filings, charities, notaries, and birth certificates, we create an immutable chain preventing tampering, cartel laundering, or hidden fraud forever. Building on Colorado's existing frameworks like SB18-086 and the Digital Token Act, this ensures eternal transparency and auditability.
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These experiences form the foundation of my conviction that Colorado's public records must be revolutionized through blockchain—the "Liberty Ledger." By digitizing and embedding all official records, from historic land grants issued under Abraham Lincoln to modern voter registrations, property deeds, business filings, charities, notaries, and birth certificates, we create an immutable chain preventing tampering, cartel laundering, or hidden fraud forever. Building on Colorado's existing frameworks like SB18-086 and the Digital Token Act, this ensures eternal transparency and auditability.
To integrate human oversight with unbreakable technology, notaries will serve as officers of the blockchain, required to upload digital scans of physical records. Encryption-encoded mechanical stamps will generate verified time keys, imprinted in ink at signing and tagged digitally in the chain alongside high-resolution photos of signature/notary pages. This hybrid system—human accountability fused with cryptographic security—turns technology into a tool of liberation, empowering individual sovereignty while closing doors to dominion by machines or corrupt networks. As the Red Flame of Liberty, I'll deliver this protection for every Coloradan.
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To integrate human oversight with unbreakable technology, notaries will serve as officers of the blockchain, required to upload digital scans of physical records. Encryption-encoded mechanical stamps will generate verified time keys, imprinted in ink at signing and tagged digitally in the chain alongside high-resolution photos of signature/notary pages. This hybrid system—human accountability fused with cryptographic security—turns technology into a tool of liberation, empowering individual sovereignty while closing doors to dominion by machines or corrupt networks. As the Red Flame of Liberty, I'll deliver this protection for every Coloradan.
From the land grants issued under Abraham Lincoln’s signature to the birth certificates of our children and grandchildren, a permanent, citizen-auditable record will exist.
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From the land grants issued under Abraham Lincoln’s signature to the birth certificates of our children and grandchildren, a permanent, citizen-auditable record will exist.
My name is James Wiley, known as the Red Flame of Liberty. I am a fifth-generation Colorado native, born in Colorado Springs. At three months old my family moved to Kazakhstan, where I spent 15 years watching the collapse of communism and the rise of capitalism. That experience burned into me a permanent understanding of what happens when the people lose sovereignty over their institutions.
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My name is James Wiley, known as the Red Flame of Liberty. I am a fifth-generation Colorado native, born in Colorado Springs. At three months old my family moved to Kazakhstan, where I spent 15 years watching the collapse of communism and the rise of capitalism. That experience burned into me a permanent understanding of what happens when the people lose sovereignty over their institutions.
I returned to Pueblo, graduated from Pueblo County High School, and earned a Management & Marketing degree (Cum Laude) plus an MBA from CSU-Pueblo. I served in student government, ran a financial-services practice, and launched a technology and marketing consulting firm before the events of 2020 redirected my life into full-time election-integrity work.
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I returned to Pueblo, graduated from Pueblo County High School, and earned a Management & Marketing degree (Cum Laude) plus an MBA from CSU-Pueblo. I served in student government, ran a financial-services practice, and launched a technology and marketing consulting firm before the events of 2020 redirected my life into full-time election-integrity work.
I was born in Colorado Springs in the winter of 1993 where I lived for 3 months before moving to the former soviet union with my family. After 15 years we moved back to Pueblo, CO and in 2011 I graduated from Pueblo County High School.
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I was born in Colorado Springs in the winter of 1993 where I lived for 3 months before moving to the former soviet union with my family. After 15 years we moved back to Pueblo, CO and in 2011 I graduated from Pueblo County High School.
I attended CU Boulder for 3 years studying computer science and biology and was politically active with caucusing for Ron Paul as well as with my local occupy movement where I joined the anonymous collective. After moving back to Pueblo to care for my elderly grandparents, I graduated in 2017 with a Management and Marketing Degree and an MBA from CSU-Pueblo.
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I attended CU Boulder for 3 years studying computer science and biology and was politically active with caucusing for Ron Paul as well as with my local occupy movement where I joined the anonymous collective. After moving back to Pueblo to care for my elderly grandparents, I graduated in 2017 with a Management and Marketing Degree and an MBA from CSU-Pueblo.
On February 23rd, 2023 cartel investigator Jacquline Breger gave testimony at the Arizona Senate hearing on not only the money laundering and bribery of government officials taking place in Arizona but also election fraud and ballot trafficking activities of these international criminal organizations. Soon afterwards we joined Ms. Breger and the lead investigative attorney John Thaler in his work to stop the cartel’s war crimes against our country and its human victims. In partnership with them, we organized Project Thaler as an anti-child trafficking charitable organization to advocate for victims and their families and to exact vengeance on the government-partnered criminal cartels that are responsible. While no longer director I still support this work whole heartedly worked there as the director since March of this year. On September 19th, we released the investigative report titled Report to the Governor.
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On February 23rd, 2023 cartel investigator Jacquline Breger gave testimony at the Arizona Senate hearing on not only the money laundering and bribery of government officials taking place in Arizona but also election fraud and ballot trafficking activities of these international criminal organizations. Soon afterwards we joined Ms. Breger and the lead investigative attorney John Thaler in his work to stop the cartel’s war crimes against our country and its human victims. In partnership with them, we organized Project Thaler as an anti-child trafficking charitable organization to advocate for victims and their families and to exact vengeance on the government-partnered criminal cartels that are responsible. While no longer director I still support this work whole heartedly worked there as the director since March of this year. On September 19th, we released the investigative report titled Report to the Governor.
I am a fifth-generation Colorado native, born in Colorado Springs. At three months old my family moved to Kazakhstan, where I spent 15 years watching the collapse of communism and the rise of capitalism. That experience burned into me a permanent understanding of what happens when the people lose sovereignty over their institutions.
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I am a fifth-generation Colorado native, born in Colorado Springs. At three months old my family moved to Kazakhstan, where I spent 15 years watching the collapse of communism and the rise of capitalism. That experience burned into me a permanent understanding of what happens when the people lose sovereignty over their institutions.
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Publish internal Secretary of State records related to the 2020 election, election-system updates, recount procedures, the Tina Peters matter, the 2024 BIOS-password disclosure, and related communications.
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All records related to the negligent publishing of the BIOS passwords by Jena's office for which I sued her for in 2024.
Decertify electronic voting systems and move Colorado elections toward hand-counted paper ballots.
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This decertification aligns with first-principle arguments: while fraud is inevitable in any system, electronic devices create massive failure points impacting thousands of votes, unlike human errors or sabotage, which are detectable and correctable through redundancy, visual oversight, and auditory checks. Digital flaws are opaque, often irreversible without full restarts, eroding trust. As an immediate replacement, we'll insist on hand-count procedures per my election creed: one-day in-person voting, voter ID for one-citizen-one-vote, paper ballots without electronics, and no mail-ins except in rare cases. To institutionalize this, I'll issue a state monopoly charter to the Colorado Ballot Counters Association—a nonprofit chapter of the International Ballot Counters Association—comprising unmodified human volunteers, driven by civic duty rather than machine interests.
Lower barriers for statewide ballot initiatives and remove campaign-contribution limits in favor of disclosure-based transparency.
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Broader reforms will amplify direct democracy: deregulating Title Board restrictions and slashing ballot initiative petition thresholds to bypass legislative gridlock; eliminating contribution limits for full transparency, redirecting funds from PAC-driven negative ads to positive campaign messages. Together, these steps will dismantle the machine-dependent status quo, restoring elections to the people where they belong.
Place state public records on an immutable blockchain ledger intended to make records auditable and resistant to alteration.
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These experiences form the foundation of my conviction that Colorado's public records must be revolutionized through blockchain—the "Liberty Ledger." By digitizing and embedding all official records, from historic land grants issued under Abraham Lincoln to modern voter registrations, property deeds, business filings, charities, notaries, and birth certificates, we create an immutable chain preventing tampering, cartel laundering, or hidden fraud forever. Building on Colorado's existing frameworks like SB18-086 and the Digital Token Act, this ensures eternal transparency and auditability.
Reduce red tape and digitize or automate Secretary of State business services to make business formation and filings faster and less expensive.
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I will slash red tape, digitize and automate wherever blockchain helps, and make it faster and cheaper to launch and grow a business so that entrepreneurs, families, and innovators choose Colorado again.
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