Eliminating the commission won't eliminate election woes, according to Tyler, who accurately predicted the election debacle. "Denver needs competent election professionals," she says. "The best and fastest way for Denver voters to change the quality of elections in Denver is to vote for two competent commissioners in May 2007, and allow the Mayor to appoint an experienced Clerk and Recorder."

The proposed change in the structure of election governance in Denver will do nothing to solve voting problems, Tyler maintains. Fujitsu, a consulting firm hired by the city to assess Denver’s Election Day woes, concluded in a December 8 report that the commission's problems are operational and managerial, not structural.

"The people of Denver have the power and the responsibility to improve elections in Denver," Tyler says. "The Mayor and Denver City Council are trying to usurp that power by burying elections in the Clerk and Recorder’s office."

"They all ducked responsibility before the election," Tyler adds. "Since the debacle, they have been scrambling for a way to make the problem go away."

Tyler points out that having one elected Clerk and Recorder run elections is not a panacea. Several Colorado counties with an elected clerk experienced serious problems on Election Day 2006, most notably Douglas and Montrose counties.

"Elections in Denver should be better than in Kazakhstan, but the Mayor and City Council want to drag us backward," says Tyler, who spent two months monitoring elections in Kazakhstan last year. "Borat’s next movie should be called The Glorious Cultural Learnings of the Denver City Council."

Tyler's one-woman campaign will soon feature a web site. She plans to walk the entire city, wearing out as many pairs of Jimmy Choos as it might take. "I hope to get on camera, too," she says. "I don’t spend money on botox for nothing."