2016 republican primaries
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Dems blast Keyser over charges in ad attacking Bennet, Iran deal
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Colorado Democrats piled on Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jon Keyser Friday after the prominent fact-checking organization PolitiFact awarded its strongest “Pants on Fire!” designation to a claim the former state lawmaker made in a TV ad his campaign began airing this week, but the Keyser campaign disputed the ruling and stuck to its guns. Listing…
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UPDATED: Judge tosses lawsuit aimed at keeping votes for Keyser from being counted
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A judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed late last week to remove candidate Jon Keyser from the Republican U.S. Senate primary, contending that the plaintiffs had waited too long to file it. Denver District Judge Morris Hoffman ruled as military and overseas voters were beginning to return their ballots for the June…
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Election officials learned Keyser petition had dead voter’s signature in April
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A state agency that reviews documents told an election official in April that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jon Keyser’s nominating petitions contained the signature of a woman who had died in January, Secretary of State Wayne Williams said Tuesday. Shortly after that, the same election official learned that data experts were suspicious that multiple signatures…
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Prosecutor plans to review Keyser petitions, circulator ‘passed background check’ for another candidate
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Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey’s office on Friday began a preliminary review into allegations nominating petitions that helped Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jon Keyser make the June primary ballot contained forged signatures, according to the state’s top election official and the director of a liberal organization that had asked local prosecutors to look into the…
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Colorado Supreme Court agrees to hear Frazier appeal on U.S. Senate primary
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ryan Frazier will get another day in court. The Colorado Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear an appeal by the former Aurora city councilman as he seeks to join four other candidates in the June primary. Frazier lost an earlier round last week in Denver District Court, where a judge ruled…
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Frazier: Fighting the bureaucracy
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It’s time to fix a broken system that restricts the voices of Colorado voters. As I’m learning first-hand, registered voters are being unnecessarily invalidated by outdated state rules that exclude — not include — more of us from the election process. We can and must do better. If there’s one thing we’ve seen, it’s that…
