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‘There are still a lot of unanswered questions’: Clerks react to investigative report on BIOS password exposure
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‘There are still a lot of unanswered questions’: Clerks react to investigative report on BIOS password exposure

By Jen Schumann | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice  A report detailing the findings of an investigation into the activities of the Colorado secretary of state's office during the public exposure of BIOS passwords, in the days leading up to the 2024 election, was released Monday. It drew mixed reactions from clerks on both sides of the Continental Divide. "I’m glad that they did an independent investigation," said Mesa County Clerk Bobbie Gross. "The secretary of state should be accountable and responsible for her actions.” Similarly, El Paso County Clerk Steve Schleiker praised the action. "The investigation demonstrated a commitment to accountability by addressing the serious error and trying to ensure public trust in the election processes," he said. The compl...
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Recount settles Republican wins in Colorado House Districts 16 and 19
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Recount settles Republican wins in Colorado House Districts 16 and 19

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice The Democratic Party's grip on the Colorado House has been loosened a bit following Republican victories in a pair of races which were so tight as to trigger mandatory recounts. Both Rebecca Keltie, in House District 16, and Dan Woog, in House District 19, won majorities following recounts performed in three counties and reported by the Colorado secretary of state's office. "A mandatory recount was required for the general election races for House Districts 16 and 19 due to the narrow vote margin between the top vote-getter and second-highest vote-getter," the secretary of state's advisory read. The trigger for a mandatory recount is a margin between the top two candidates of 0.5%. Republicans will hold 22 seats in the 75th General Asse...
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U.S. Rep-elect Evans, SBOE Member-elect Navarro to be featured in town hall
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U.S. Rep-elect Evans, SBOE Member-elect Navarro to be featured in town hall

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice A town hall meeting featuring Congressman-elect Gabe Evans and State Board of Education Member-elect Yazmin Navarro, both of the 8th Congressional District, will take place on Friday, Dec. 6, from 1-3 p.m. The town hall is being hosted and offered by Wayne Walvoord, the regional captain in Northern and Eastern Colorado for the Convention of States. Evans unseated Democrat U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo in a race decided by 2,449 votes among 333,609 total votes. He gathered 48.96% of the vote, edging out Caraveo by 0.74%. The race did not qualify for a mandatory recount, as it was 0.24% beyond the 0.50% margin to trigger a recount. Navarro was part of a right turn for the State Board of Education, as Republicans won three of the four races on the...
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Dr. Joondeph: Presidential polling postmortem winners and losers
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Dr. Joondeph: Presidential polling postmortem winners and losers

By Dr. Brian C. Joondeph | Commentary, American Thinker Election 2024 is in the rearview mirror. Pollsters won’t be bombarding voters anymore. Today’s entertainment is liberal heads exploding on social media or the latest Democrat threatening - but not actually following through on - everything from drinking cyanide to setting themselves on fire to leaving the country if Donald Trump won the election. So far, few have followed through on their promises, although a handful have left the country. Good riddance to them. Trump did win, bigly, in a landslide of sorts. He won the Electoral College handily, 312 to 226. Trump also won the popular vote, 49.9% to 48.3%. As a divided country, the popular vote will always be close. Thus, in 1980, w...
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Jeff Hurd, taking over 3rd District seat, headlines new crop of legislators in U.S. House
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Jeff Hurd, taking over 3rd District seat, headlines new crop of legislators in U.S. House

By Hailey Bullis | Washington Examiner Republican Rep.-elect Jeff Hurd, the incoming freshman for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, admits his representation style might be a “little bit different” from that of his predecessor, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO). Hurd, 45, had never run for elected office prior to his 2024 congressional campaign, saying during an interview with the Washington Examiner that his foray into politics was much that of an “accidental politician.” For Hurd and his wife, Barbora Hurd, who have five children, the idea of running for an elected position “wasn’t anything that we had been aiming for,” with the incoming freshman saying he often jokes that “if you’re looking for somebody that has good judgment, don’t look at the person running for C...
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Boddie: Independent expenditure committees effect election outcomes
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Boddie: Independent expenditure committees effect election outcomes

By CS Boddie | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice One of the reasons candidates lost in the 2024 election may be that independent expenditure committees (IECs), with millions to spend, negatively affected the races. Was it mainly Democrat-leaning IECs at work or did Republican-leaning IECs play too? Pertinent facts are available from TRACER, a  ‘campaign financial disclosure website’ to which political candidates and ‘issue committees’ reported for the office of the secretary of state.  Note that the home page shows a big disparity in ‘contributions and loans filed in 2024’ by political parties, with Democrats receiving about $6.8 million in loans and contributions while Republicans received $1.8 million. Just one IEC existed to support Republicans: New Day Col...
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Hillman: National debt is silent threat to America’s security
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Hillman: National debt is silent threat to America’s security

By Mark Hillman | Commentary, MarkHillman.com With the election mercifully behind us, Americans should expect those we’ve elected to get to the less-pleasant task of governing responsibly.  While hot-button issues such as immigration, inflation and foreign affairs will garner most headlines, a more pressing concern is too often overlooked: America’s staggering national debt. Growing faster than the economy and projected to reach a record share of gross domestic product (GDP) within three years, our debt is a national crisis.  If we continue down the current unsustainable path, we are flirting with catastrophe that would dwarf the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Our next Congress and President must confront this challenge before it is too late. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY A...
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Rosen: Voters paved path forward for Trump, GOP majority
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Rosen: Voters paved path forward for Trump, GOP majority

By Mike Rosen | Commentary, Complete Colorado Two years ago, I predicted that Joe Biden wouldn’t be on the presidential ballot by November 2024.  After Kamala Harris secured the nomination, my rosy scenario was a Trump victory riding a red wave.  (It’s true I picked Dewey over Truman in 1948, but I was only three-years-old then.) Now, all the usual Democrat suspects, the liberal media, and other assorted sore losers are up in arms over President-elect Trump’s announced selections for cabinet posts and other leadership positions in his incoming administration.  Really, Rachel Maddow and the crew of lefty wackos at MSNBC are outraged?  Isn’t that too bad?  Trump’s appropriate response should echo the eloquent words of President Barack Obama when he met with def...
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Recount ordered in Colorado House District 16, expected soon in District 19
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Recount ordered in Colorado House District 16, expected soon in District 19

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice The first of two election recounts critical to Republicans eliminating the Democratic supermajority in the Colorado House has been ordered by Secretary of State Jena Griswold's office. After the tabulation of 41,276 votes in El Paso County's state House District 16 race, Republican Rebecca Keltie was six votes ahead of Democrat Stephanie Vigil, by a margin of 2 one-hundredths of 1 percent of the vote, or 0.02%. State law requires a recount of an election with a margin of victory between two candidates of half of 1 percent or less, or a 0.5% margin. "Pursuant to Colorado law, the percentage of vote totals between the candidates requires the secretary of state to order a recount," the order from Griswold's office reads. The process calls for a ...
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Cañon City voted to build a new swimming pool, but not to fund it
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Cañon City voted to build a new swimming pool, but not to fund it

By Sue McMillin | The Colorado Sun When voters delivered a mixed decision on building a new pool in town, they created a dilemma: build it without the assurance of having the money to operate it or walk away from the project despite voters’ approval of the sales tax and debt to build it. There’s a hedge-your-bets option as well, which would slow the construction process so the district could go back to voters again to ask for funds to operate the pool before significant debt is incurred building it. The only option without financial risk is to bag the project.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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