Actions against election fraud in advance? Ideas?

[O.M.B.inOhio]

Colorado's Scty of State is bearing eerie resemblance to Ken Blackwell (OH, 2004) and Katherine Harris (FL, 2000; Hell next).
There are certainly procedures for challenging a state's electors after the election, but can you recall how Boxer was treated for fulfilling her Constitutional role in January 2005?

So what to do? Can the Governor and representatives of Colorado declare that they'll enact some sort of emergency policy, should the SOS fail to protect Colorodans' right to vote? Deny Electors passage out of the state?

Should the Congress do some sort of action that can be done in the next weeks, like simply reaffirming the principles of HAVA (even if the details are ugly) and of the (amended) Constitution?
Make a statement to lessen Americans' (and the MSM's) expectations that results will be finalized on election night?
Open an avenue for federal challenges to state actions (e.g. the decision not to count thousands of provisional ballots in Ohio 2004, without any individual review)? Make policy that any state body or consulting organization will face criminal charges if their actions are found to have caused citizens to lose their right to vote?? (I believe that CO has outsourced its voter "verification" process just as Florida did in 2000, so it's unclear now whether anybody can be held accountable for the illegal purges that affect people of color more than white registered voters. If you get illegally un-registered, you should get to vote and the perpetrators should be investigated and possibly jailed and fined.)

If principles and procedures are established or clarified before the election, the RepugnantOnes cannot cry Sore Loserman when citizens complain about being disenfranchised.

What do you think?