2022 elections
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Monument voters approve home rule charter despite late opposition push backed by out-of-town money
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Monument voters last week overwhelmingly approved the town’s new home rule charter, according to unofficial voting returns, despite a late opposition push backed by out-of-town money that came just ahead of the election. A ballot question asking residents to approve the charter, drafted and proposed by an elected nine-member committee after residents last year voted…
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El Paso County, Colorado Springs residents to vote on transportation tax extension
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This November, El Paso County and Colorado Springs voters will decide at the polls whether to extend a local sales tax that funds regional and multimodal road projects for another 10 years. Pikes Peak Regional Transportation Authority, which collects the 1-cent sales tax to share among six regional governments, on Wednesday authorized setting the ballot…
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El Paso County to conduct GOP primary recounts in clerk, coroner races
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The El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office will begin recounts in the local primary races for clerk and recorder and coroner this weekend. Republican candidates Peter Lupia and Dr. Rae Ann Weber, who lost in the June 28 Republican races for county clerk and coroner, respectively, formally requested and submitted payment to the county…
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Conservative group attacks Democrat Diana DeGette over gas prices in digital ad campaign
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A leading conservative group is hammering U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette with a digital ad linking the Denver Democrat to Biden administration polices the group claims have led to soaring gas prices, but a spokesman for DeGette told Colorado Politics she holds oil companies responsible for much of the pain consumers are feeling at the pump.…
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Polis, Ganahl each commit to 3 gubernatorial debates but only agree on attending one
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, the Democratic incumbent, and Heidi Ganahl, his Republican challenger, have each committed to appearing at three general election debates in September and October, their respective campaigns announced on Monday — but so far they’ve only both agreed to participate in one of them. Ganahl initiated this year’s edition of the perennial…
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Colorado GOP primary results pave way for more competitive November elections
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Colorado voters made two things clear in Tuesday’s primary election: The state’s blue streak could be put to the test in this year’s general election, and the Democrats who spent millions of dollars trying to pick Republican nominees failed spectacularly. In linked developments, voters in the state’s Republican primary — including a record-high share of unaffiliated…
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Republican ballot count noses ahead 5 days out from Colorado’s primary election
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With five days left to return ballots in Colorado’s primary election, state and county officials said more votes have been cast in the Republican primary than in the Democratic contest, though registered Republicans are still voting at a slower pace than their Democratic and unaffiliated counterparts. Through 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, county clerks had logged in 525,807…
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Tina Peters barred from overseeing this year’s primary and general elections in Mesa County
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Tina Peters, the Colorado county clerk under indictment for allegedly tampering with voting equipment, is prohibited from overseeing Mesa County’s 2022 primary and general elections, a judge ordered on Tuesday. Ruling in a lawsuit filed in January by Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and a Mesa County voter, Mesa County District Court Judge Valerie J.…
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Broomfield council member replaces Matt Gray on primary ballot
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Democrats picked a Broomfield council member to replace Rep. Matt Gray on the primary ballot. The vacancy committee in House District 33 elected council member William Lindstedt to replace Gray on the ballot, according to Megan Burns, the communications director for the Colorado Democratic Party. “Thank you to Rep. Gray for his service and thank you to…
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Ex-Republican Danielle Neuschwanger launches gubernatorial run on third-party ticket
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Danielle Neuschwanger, the Elbert County rancher who lost her bid earlier this month for a spot in Colorado’s Republican gubernatorial primary, said on Saturday that she is running on a third-party ticket – despite objections by some Republicans that her campaign will split the conservative vote and boost chances of Democratic Gov. Jared Polis winning…
