Colorado’s status as a hotbed of the election denial movement is in the spotlight of a civil rights trial in federal court this week. Defendants Ashe Epp, Shawn Smith and Holly Kasun are accused of violating civil rights laws by launching a door-to-door “voter verification” project in at least four Colorado counties in an attempt to prove debunked allegations of widespread fraud in Colorado’s voting systems. A trio of voting rights groups, represented by the nonprofit Free Speech For People, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Colorado in 2022. All three defendants, through their w…