Castle Rock woman gets maximum prison term for voter fraud convictions

A Douglas County judge gave Castle Rock resident Elizabeth Ann Davis the maximum sentence allowed under Colorado law after jurors found she tried to vote with ballots that were not her own in the 2022 General Election.

District Court Chief Judge Ryan J. Stuart sentenced the 62-year-old to three years in prison on March 9, 2026, after a Douglas County jury convicted her in October 2025 of two counts of forgery and one count of personating an elector. Prosecutors said Davis submitted a ballot in the name of her deceased ex-husband, cast a ballot for her son and also cast her own legitimate vote in the same election.

The case has become a pointed test of election enforcement in Douglas County, where officials are treating ballot tampering as a direct threat to public confidence. Under Colorado statute 1-13-705, personating an elector is a class 1 misdemeanor, but the forgery convictions in Davis’ case increased the sentencing exposure to the three-year maximum she received. The 23rd Judicial District, created in January 2025 and covering Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties, announced the sentence as part of its election-integrity work.

District Attorney George Brauchler said his office takes election integrity seriously and that corrupting ballots leads to incarceration. Douglas County Clerk and Recorder Sheri Davis said election safeguards worked in the case and praised the district attorney’s office for treating attempted voter fraud seriously.

Deputy District Attorney David Bosner said Davis told the court she believed she was being targeted because she attended the January 6, 2021 protest in Washington, D.C., a rally organized around false claims of voter fraud. Prosecutors also said Davis has 10 prior felony convictions and two misdemeanors, with a record that includes forgery, theft, drug offenses and prostitution in Florida and Colorado.

The Castle Rock case is not the only recent voter-fraud prosecution in the county. Earlier in 2025, Joy Beth Lewis was sentenced to 20 days in jail after pleading guilty to signing and submitting her dead landlord’s ballot in the 2024 presidential primary, underscoring that local election officials and prosecutors are pursuing these cases as they emerge.