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Secretary Griswold: ‘Election night results are not final results’
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Secretary Griswold: ‘Election night results are not final results’

By BRIAN PORTER | The Rocky Mountain Voice As polls close on Election Day and votes are tallied, there is a specific process that follows, Secretary of State Jena Griswold indicates. “Election night results are not final results in Colorado,” Griswold said. “After Election Day, ballots continue to be counted, military and oversees voters return their ballots, signature discrepancies can be fixed, and bipartisan audits are conducted to confirm the results – there is quite a bit of activity that occurs after Election Day across the state.” Initial results are not reported within the state until polls close across the state. After polls close at 7 p.m., counties begin to upload results to the state’s centralized Election Night Reporting system, Griswold said, and results will be avai...
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Taylor Swift reminds 282 million Instagram followers its Super Tuesday
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Taylor Swift reminds 282 million Instagram followers its Super Tuesday

By CHRISTINE ZHU | Politico Taylor Swift is encouraging fans in Tennessee and other Super Tuesday states to cast their votes for the presidential primaries. The world’s most famous pop star issued the call in an Instagram story post to her 282 million followers Tuesday morning, just before the site experienced a temporary outage. “I wanted to remind you guys to vote the people who most represent YOU into power,” Swift wrote. “If you haven’t already, make a plan to vote today.” The post linked off to Vote.org. READ THE FULL STORY AT POLITICO
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Rep. Mike Lynch proposes tougher approach to fentanyl possession
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Rep. Mike Lynch proposes tougher approach to fentanyl possession

By Thelma Grimes | Colorado Politics Arguing the status quo has failed to curb overdose deaths in Colorado, a Republican legislator is pushing for legislation to make it a felony for possessing any amount of fentanyl. In response the overdose crisis, state policymakers in 2022 approved legislation to heighten the felony charges for possession of 1 to 4 grams of any substance containing fentanyl. The criminal penalty increase above 4 grams, an under 1 gram, possession is a misdemeanor. In addition, the law allows defendants charged with the new felony to argue to a judge or jury that they didn't know they possessed fentanyl, and if a "finder of fact" determines the defendant made a reasonable mistake of fact, the offense becomes a Level 1 drug misdemeanor. READ THE FUL...
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Reminder: Head to the polls today to weigh in on Presidential primary
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Reminder: Head to the polls today to weigh in on Presidential primary

By BRIAN PORTER | The Rocky Mountain Voice About one-quarter of registered voters statewide had cast a ballot in a party primary entering Monday. Election Day is today, March 5. Among the 838,903 ballots to have been processed, 58.6% have been in the Republican Party. Ballots cast in the Democratic Party primary are trailing by 17.4%. Unaffiliated voters have returned 356,940 ballots, of which 161,274 have been in the Republican Party’s primary and 120,317 of which are being processed. Today, voters will have a couple of options. First, a completed ballot may still be cast at a drop box location through 7 p.m. Also, voters may cast a ballot in-person at the voting center in their county of residence. The last day for a county clerk to receive a ballot by mail is today. Polls are o...
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Sonnenberg wins 4th District straw poll in Holyoke, his second straw poll victory
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Sonnenberg wins 4th District straw poll in Holyoke, his second straw poll victory

By BRIAN PORTER | The Rocky Mountain Voice The candidate that emerges in Colorado’s 4th District to represent the eastern third of the state in Congress will have a tall order – to serve a predominately urban population along the Front Range and a mostly rural population along the furthest reaches of the Eastern Plains. Jerry Sonnenberg may have begun making the case he is one who can do it, winning his second straw poll in the district Sunday at a tri-county forum held in Holyoke. The combined Phillips, Sedgwick and Yuma County event drew a crowd of about 200-250 and Sonnenberg came away with 55 of the 184 votes cast to take 29.9% of the vote. Ted Harvey gathered 38 votes to finish second and Lauren Boebert was third with 30 votes. Boebert had won a previous straw poll in Windsor...
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Republicans rip Colorado GOP chair Dave Williams over use of party resources to attack primary rival
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Republicans rip Colorado GOP chair Dave Williams over use of party resources to attack primary rival

By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave Williams is drawing fire from fellow Republicans after the state GOP mailed a brochure to El Paso County voters this week that includes attacks on one of the congressional candidates running against Williams in this year's Republican primary. Since announcing his candidacy in Colorado Springs-based 5th Congressional District in January in an email distributed by the state GOP, Williams has faced calls to step down from the party post, with critics citing party bylaws that prohibit the party and its officers from taking sides in primaries, including on their own behalf. Those calls have intensified this week, including from three of Williams' predecessors as state party chair. "That’s misappropriatio...
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Biden has until March 19 to drop out
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Biden has until March 19 to drop out

By Paul Bedard | Colorado Springs Gazette In late 1995, Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes had a problem. Instead of pulling out his checkbook and paying to get on state primary ballots, he chose to do it the old-fashioned way and get thousands of signatures on petitions, and it wasn’t going well. As the deadline for the petitions in Rhode Island neared, staffer Doug Heye and two others headed to the Ocean State to finish the job. “Now I've never been to Rhode Island before. There's a foot of snow on the ground. And we're, like, what do we do? The malls were empty the week before Christmas. I called back to the home office and said we're not getting this done. This is not happening. You got to do something else,” Heye recalled. But it w...
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The cost of universal pre-K in Colorado: Thousands of at-risk kids got less classroom time
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The cost of universal pre-K in Colorado: Thousands of at-risk kids got less classroom time

By Brian Eason | Colorado Sun Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ signature preschool initiative is serving thousands more families than expected in its first year, but its success has come with a costly downside: Fewer low-income children attend full-day preschool today than before the program launched. The trade-off was laid out in stark terms during Joint Budget Committee hearings last month: The more enrollment grows for universal pre-K, the less state funding will be available for at-risk children to attend full-day preschool. Under Colorado’s previous state-funded preschool program, which ended July 1, more than 6,000 at-risk 4-year-olds received funding for a full-day classroom slot last school year. This year, the state provided only 3,500 full-day slots to the most at-risk kids — ...
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It’s unanimous, Colorado cannot disqualify Trump from ballot
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It’s unanimous, Colorado cannot disqualify Trump from ballot

By ZACH SCHONFELD | The Hill The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Colorado cannot disqualify former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban, a historic decision that preserves Trump’s ability to seek a second presidential term.  Monday’s unsigned decision effectively ends the long-shot efforts that aimed to prevent Trump from returning to the White House, handing a monumental legal victory to the former president on the eve of Super Tuesday, when he is poised to close in on clinching the Republican nomination.  Voters and advocacy groups had filed dozens of challenges to Trump’s ballot eligibility in states across the country, claiming his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack triggered his disqualification. READ ...
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‘Not the same RNC,’ Nikki Haley backtracks on party’s loyalty pledge to nominee
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‘Not the same RNC,’ Nikki Haley backtracks on party’s loyalty pledge to nominee

By Todd C. Frankel | The Washington Post Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley said Sunday that she no longer feels bound by the earlier pledge made by her and other presidential hopefuls to support the GOP’s eventual nominee — widely expected to be former president Donald Trump. The Republican National Committee made that pledge a key condition for candidates who wanted to participate in the party’s debates. Haley acknowledged in an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that the pledge was a requirement but added that the party has changed since then. “The RNC is now not the same RNC,” she said. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON POST
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