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What’s on my ballot? Three races for district attorney are opposed, including in new 23rd District
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

What’s on my ballot? Three races for district attorney are opposed, including in new 23rd District

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice There will be three opposed district attorney races to decide, including in the newly-created 23rd District, on the primary ballot. Election Day is Tuesday, June 25. Registered voters should have received a mailed ballot or will in the coming days. Those Coloradans who are not yet registered to vote may do so in a couple of ways with various deadlines. Register at GoVoteColorado.gov through June 17, in order to receive a ballot by mail. Additionally, registration can be completed in person at a voting center until 7 p.m. on Election Day. On the Democratic ballot, John Walsh and Leora Joseph are vying to become district attorney in the 2nd District. The winner will not face Republican opposition in the general election. On the Republican ba...
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What’s on my ballot? In Colorado House, 18 of 65 races feature some form of primary opposition
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

What’s on my ballot? In Colorado House, 18 of 65 races feature some form of primary opposition

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice There will be 10 opposed Colorado House races for Republicans to decide and eight for Democrats to weigh on the primary ballot. Election Day is Tuesday, June 25. Registered voters should have received a mailed ballot or will in the coming days. Those Coloradans who are not yet registered to vote may do so in a couple of ways with various deadlines. Register at GoVoteColorado.gov through June 17, in order to receive a ballot by mail. Additionally, registration can be completed in person at a voting center until 7 p.m. on Election Day. There are 65 seats in the Colorado House, with each seat appearing on the ballot every two years. Among those, about one-third of seats are opposed in either the Democratic or Republican Party primaries. Democrat...
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In Rio Grande County, commissioners hear update on voting system
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Alamosa News, Local

In Rio Grande County, commissioners hear update on voting system

By LYNDSIE FERRELL | Alamosa News For the past several weeks, Rio Grande County Clerk and Recorder Cindy Hill has been speaking with Rio Grande County commissioners regarding an update to current elections systems used in Rio Grande County and after the approval to move forward with the update, commissioners requested a work session to answer questions. Rio Grande County uses Dominion Voting Systems to count ballots and has passed every audit required by the State of Colorado since the voting system installation in 2017. There was some expectation that a Dominion representative would be at the work session, but according to RG County Administrator Skip Schoen, “they not able to make our chosen time fit with their schedule.” Schoen conveyed this in an email to Valley Publishing. ...
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What’s on my ballot? Seven Senate races are opposed in primary election
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

What’s on my ballot? Seven Senate races are opposed in primary election

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice There will be four opposed Colorado Senate races for Republicans to decide and three for Democrats to weigh on the primary ballot. Election Day is Tuesday, June 25. Registered voters should have received a mailed ballot or will in the coming days. Those Coloradans who are not yet registered to vote may do so in a couple of ways with various deadlines. Register at GoVoteColorado.gov through June 17, in order to receive a ballot by mail. Additionally, registration can be completed in person at a voting center until 7 p.m. on Election Day. There are 35 seats in the Colorado Senate, with 18 appearing on the ballot and among those seven being opposed in the primary election. Democrats are one seat from holding a super majority in the Senate. They ...
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Castle Rock Republican sets the record straight on ad’s claims toward his military service
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Castle Rock News-Press, Local

Castle Rock Republican sets the record straight on ad’s claims toward his military service

By McKenna Harford | Castle Rock News-Press A Republican candidate running to represent Castle Rock at the state capitol is clarifying his background after an independent political committee attempting to boost his candidacy sent voters an ad in the mail with wrong information.  Max Brooks, who is running for Colorado House District 45, said the advertisement from a group unaffiliated with his campaign wrongly calls him an Army veteran and a native of Castle Rock, where he serves on the town’s council.  Brooks said he went to a military boarding school, but never served in the military. Brooks added that he was born in Oklahoma, grew up in Lakewood and moved to Castle Rock in 2006. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE CASTLE ROCK NEWS-PRESS
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Sloan: In Mexico, don’t expect much to change with new President
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Commentary, National, Rocky Mountain Voice

Sloan: In Mexico, don’t expect much to change with new President

By Kelly Sloan | Contributing Columnist, Rocky Mountain Voice You may have missed it, but at the beginning of this month Mexico elected a new President. By which to say they elected an extension of their previous one.  Claudia Sheinbaum, former mayor of Mexico City, won the election in what can only be described as a landslide for the ruling left-wing Morena Party. Sheinbaum happens to be Mexico’s first female President (it’s first Jewish one too, though it seems she likes to keep her Jewishness rather suppressed unless politically convenient.) More importantly, she is a protégé of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador known somewhat affectionately as “AMLO”. Both are socialists, after a fashion, and it is not expected that President Sheinbaum will stray much from the pol...
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Recall effort of coroner by citizen-led group in Southeast Colorado falls short
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Local, World Journal

Recall effort of coroner by citizen-led group in Southeast Colorado falls short

By World Journal Staff A recall election to oust Las Animas County Coroner Dominic “Junie” Verquer will not be held, at least in the immediate future, after the registered citizens committee leading the effort failed to secure enough verified signatures, according to numbers obtained by the World Journal this week. Citizens for Coroner Accountability’s (CCA) signature campaign fell 346 verified signatures short of forcing a recall election, according to a tally obtained from the Las Animas County Clerk & Recorder’s Office. The citizen issue committee needed to obtain 1,253 signatures to spark a recall election and submitted 1,345 signatures, according to the paperwork. The county clerk office accepted – or verified – 907 signatures, rejecting 435. READ THE FULL STORY AT ...
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What’s on my ballot? In University of Colorado regent election, only one primary race is opposed
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

What’s on my ballot? In University of Colorado regent election, only one primary race is opposed

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice There will be no opposed race for Republicans to decide and only one for Democrats in University of Colorado Board of Regent elections on the primary ballot. Election Day is Tuesday, June 25. Registered voters should have received a mailed ballot or will in the coming days. Those Coloradans who are not yet registered to vote may do so in a couple of ways with various deadlines. Register at GoVoteColorado.gov through June 17, in order to receive a ballot by mail. Additionally, registration can be completed in person at a voting center until 7 p.m. on Election Day. Nine regents are elected by Coloradans to serve in six-year staggered terms, with one regent elected from and by voters in each of Colorado's eight U.S. House of Representatives dist...
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What’s on my ballot? There are two opposed races for the state board of education
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

What’s on my ballot? There are two opposed races for the state board of education

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice There will be two opposed races, one in each major party, for the Colorado Board of Education, meaning voters in two areas of the state will have decisions to make on their primary ballot. Election Day is Tuesday, June 25. Registered voters should have received a mailed ballot or will in the coming days. Those Coloradans who are not yet registered to vote may do so in a couple of ways with various deadlines. Register at GoVoteColorado.gov through June 17, in order to receive a ballot by mail. Additionally, registration can be completed in person at a voting center until 7 p.m. on Election Day. Colorado elects members to the state board of education based upon U.S. House of Representatives districts and one at-large seat. As voters reflect for...
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Campaign complaint dismissed against El Paso County commissioner running for state office
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Colorado Springs Gazette, Local

Campaign complaint dismissed against El Paso County commissioner running for state office

By Savannah Eller | Colorado Springs Gazette Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold's office has officially dismissed a complaint against current El Paso County Commissioner Stan VanderWerf for comments made about his state Senate run in a May 9 Board of County Commissioners meeting.  The state Elections Division motion to dismiss was granted on June 7. Integrity matters, the resident watchdog group behind the complaint, said in the filing that VanderWerf violated fair campaign practices when he mentioned what he planned to do if elected to Colorado Senate District 12 this November during a meeting on a housing development approval application.  The development, which would bring 20 single-family homes to dead-end Hay Creek Road, faced opposition from the public during the...
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