Dark, conspiratorial rumors persist about the Snowmass election determing the fate of Base Village. Unsubstantiated reports of a rigged vote linger in the air. But Aspen Skiing Company CEO Pat O’Donnell is having none of it. “There have been unsubstantiated claims that SkiCo ‘engineered’ the election by displacing international workers and replacing them with U.S. citizens in our Club Commons employee housing project in Snowmass,” he writes in a letter to the editor. “These allegations are completely false.”