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Debunking the “Californians Turned Colorado Blue” Myth: Organic Change or Engineered Illusion?
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Debunking the “Californians Turned Colorado Blue” Myth: Organic Change or Engineered Illusion?

By Mark Cook | Commentary, Article on X The claim that an influx of liberal Californians (or even broader interstate migration) single-handedly flipped Colorado from a Republican-leaning swing state to a reliably Democratic one collapses under even modest scrutiny of the numbers. Between 2000 and 2024, Colorado absorbed roughly 2.8 million gross domestic in-migrants, with Californians making up about 25% (≈685,000). This represents only 25–30% of the state’s total population growth and less than one-third of the 3.25 million net new registered voters the Colorado Secretary of State’s office claims were added in the same period. Voter-file models consistently show domestic migrants breaking roughly 32% Republican, 28% Democratic, and 40% Unaffiliated/Independent, a mix that i...
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Two CVRs, one pattern: Arapahoe County rewrote its election record, critics say–and no one’s accountable
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Two CVRs, one pattern: Arapahoe County rewrote its election record, critics say–and no one’s accountable

By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice Arapahoe County quietly replaced its 2020 general election cast vote record (CVR) in early 2025 – years after the election was certified. The change came without public notice, audit, or oversight. The reason? A Yale professor raised concerns about a strange pattern in the data. That pattern, according to a growing number of analysts and lawmakers, was more than just strange. It was statistically impossible. “This is like flipping a coin 3,500 times and getting heads every time,” said Dr. Walter Daugherity, a Harvard-trained computer scientist who presented forensic findings at a press conference held Tuesday on the west steps of the Colorado Capitol. RMV covered the lead-up to the event in a story titled Analyst to reveal altered Arapahoe 20...
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