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Sloan: In Mexico, don’t expect much to change with new President
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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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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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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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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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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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Nearly $300K from group with hidden donors pours into Colorado Democratic primary
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Nearly $300K from group with hidden donors pours into Colorado Democratic primary

By Sandra Fish and Jesse Paul | The Colorado Sun Hundreds of thousands of dollars from a group that appears to be maneuvering to hide its donors is pouring into Democratic state Senate primary in Aurora, raising questions about the organization’s intentions and how it may affect the trajectory of the race.  Representation Matters has spent $271,000 thus far on mailers, digital ads and canvassing to help Aurora attorney Idris Keith in his Senate District 28 race against state Rep. Mike Weissman. Keith has the backing of business groups, while Weissman is endorsed by a slate of his Democratic colleagues in the legislature, as well as union, environmental and progressive groups.  The district is so favorable to Democrats that whoever wins the June 25 primary will almost cer...
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Unaffiliated voters up, party registrations down in reliably red Phillips County
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Unaffiliated voters up, party registrations down in reliably red Phillips County

By JR KRUEGER | Holyoke Enterprise Presidential election years can inspire a higher participation in the electoral process as the voting public weighs public policy considerations and determines if they favor or oppose party platforms and candidates.  On January 1 of this year, there were 2,777 active voters registered in Phillips County. Among them, unaffiliated voters exceeded one thousand for the first time at 1,008. In examining trends since the 2016 presidential election year, that’s up 64%.  An unaffiliated voter is sometimes referred to as an Independent, although Colorado does not use that term. Independents are not a political party and should not be confused with political parties that use Independent or Independence in their name.  READ THE FULL STORY AT TH...
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What’s on my ballot? Reviewing the candidates for U.S. Representative
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What’s on my ballot? Reviewing the candidates for U.S. Representative

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice While there will be five Democrat and four Republican positions for U.S. Representative unopposed, many voters around the state will have decisions to make for the office. 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 in eight districts to the U.S. House of Representatives. Following are choices you may have, based upon your registration with a major party or ...
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Adams, Spakovsky: Despite liberals’ hysterical denials, aliens are registering and voting
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Adams, Spakovsky: Despite liberals’ hysterical denials, aliens are registering and voting

By Hans von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams  | The Daily Signal The truth is out there. Aliens are registering and voting in American elections. For anyone who cares to see it, the truth is available in public records in election offices across the nation. But unfortunately, those who expose the truth about voting by aliens—illegal immigrants or not—are subjected to ridicule and an onslaught from the Left to preserve the broken status quo. Some would prefer that anyone who documents aliens participating in American elections—especially with the current border crisis—simply disappear. We both testified recently before the House Administration Committee on this serious and real problem. The reactions of some Democrats on the committee were outl...
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Video: The good initiatives on the ballot to protect Colorado’s elections
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Video: The good initiatives on the ballot to protect Colorado’s elections

By BRANDON WARK | Free State Colorado This November, Colorado voters will have the opportunity to fundamentally change election law in the state. From ranked-choice voting, to an all-candidate primary election, there will be initiatives to upend the electoral system. But Linda Bissett and her "Good Initiative Team" are fighting back. They are collecting signatures for their three competing ballot measures. Linda and team want to prohibit ranked-choice voting, preserve ballot access through party assemblies, and close Colorado’s open primaries. WATCH THE VIDEO AT FREE STATE COLORADO
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