2016 u.s. senate race
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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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Rivals rip Keyser over ‘lifelong Republican’ claim
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jon Keyser’s primary opponents on Wednesday tore into the former state lawmaker – some more gently than others – after it emerged that Keyser had changed his voter registration to unaffiliated for two years despite boasting that he was “a lifelong Republican” at a recent debate. Keyser made the claim in…
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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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UPDATED: Court ruling means votes for Frazier will count in U.S. Senate primary
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Republican Ryan Frazier learned Wednesday afternoon that votes cast for him in the June U.S. Senate primary will count, following a court ruling and a circuitous path that led through the Colorado Supreme Court. The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Frazier on several points in an appeal he filed to overturn a ruling…
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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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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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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…
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Judge orders Frazier on U.S. Senate primary ballot pending appeal
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ryan Frazier’s name will appear on primary ballots, but votes for the former Aurora city councilman might not be counted, according to a court order issued Thursday afternoon. In the latest wrinkle in a process fraught with reversals, a Denver District Court judge said Frazier will join four other Republicans on…
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Blaha makes U.S. Senate primary ballot, Frazier vows appeal
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First they failed to make the ballot. Then one of them was on. Then maybe off again. Then back on. It was all part of one of the wildest political weeks in recent memory, with more twists and turns than a winding mountain road. While the dust was far from settled, by Thursday morning…