2016 presidential race
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Time to push voters to vote
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The presidential candidates and their surrogates are making Colorado appearances right and left as the final countdown to Election Day enters the last few days. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump returns to the state for a 9:30 p.m. rally Saturday, Nov. 5, at the National Western Complex in Denver. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Find ticket information…
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? Denver says it’s got election security under control
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The integrity of the nation’s voting system has been questioned like never before, led by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, but the director of elections in the Denver Elections Division told reporters during a media tour Friday, Oct. 28, that the system can be trusted and is more secure than polling place election systems. Amber…
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? Political uncertainty roils small businesses
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According to Visa’s chief economist, Hillary Clinton will win the presidency in the Nov. 8 general election, bringing with her several economic, regulatory and tax concerns for small businesses. Wayne Best explained this and other concepts to Denver-area small-business owners at a dinner presentation Wednesday, Oct. 26, at the University of Denver. Best is a member…
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Colorado to decide on adopting a presidential primary
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For many, this year’s major party caucuses in Colorado were messy and confusing: Democrats struggled to accommodate every voter, and Republicans didn’t choose presidential delegates because the national party insisted the vote be binding. Independent voters were left out in the cold. But party loyalists swear by the grassroots give-and-take of these straw polls that…
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? McMullin taking page from past no-chance candidates
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Spurred on by a lack of conservative presidential candidates in this year’s election, Evan McMullin decided to run as an independent to try to prevent either major party candidate from winning, and to help a “new conservative movement” take hold in the country. McMullin and his vice-presidential running mate, Mindy Finn, brought that message to…
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Duplicate ballots mailed to Jeffco home
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On the heels of reports of dead voters being sent ballots for years in Colorado comes a case of two ballots sent to the same person for the Nov. 8 general election. As reported by KDVR Fox 31, Jessica Olson of Evergreen said her 21-year-old daughter, Makinzy, received two mail-in ballots from the Jefferson County…
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With email dumps, WikiLeaks tests power of full transparency
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange first outlined the hypothesis nearly a decade ago: Can total transparency defeat an entrenched group of insiders? “Consider what would happen,” Assange wrote in 2006, if one of America’s two major parties had their emails, faxes, campaign briefings, internal polls and donor data all exposed to public scrutiny. “They would immediately…