early voting
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More Colo. Republicans vote early, but unaffiliateds are breaking left
If this is going to be a blue-wave year for Democrats, the first week of early voting certainly doesn’t suggest it. So far, Republicans are voting in bigger numbers than Democrats as the race to the June 26 primary unfolds. As of Thursday, 90,391 Democrats had returned ballots compared to 94,013 from Republican voters, according…
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Friday is Jack Tate election bills day in the state Senate
On Friday, the Senate is scheduled to act on two closely watched elections bills sponsored by Centennial Republican Jack Tate. As The Statesman has reported, the first, Senate Bill 71, proposes to reallocate resources during the early voting period, shutting down some voter service centers in the first lightly trafficked week in the state’s largest…
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#Coleg Week 11: GOP tax proposal shot down, Transpo bill grumbling, fracking school setbacks, gay conversion, gun bills, budget countdown
The week is already moving fast. Republican-sponsored House Bill 1187 was shot down by Republicans in the Senate State Affairs committee. It was an important bill. Here’s a magazine-like summary of what it proposed to do, as best as I can write it at this stage: The bill aimed to allow the state to collect…
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Tate early-voting cost-savings bill still waiting back stage for big Senate curtain call
An elections administration bill that has been quietly hanging around the Senate chamber since it was introduced the first week of the legislative session in Colorado will stay a little while longer. On Friday, lawmakers laid over Senate Bill 71 for second reading until Monday. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Jack Tate, a Republican from…
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Early voting allows voters to react quickly after debates
If Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton scores a high note or commits a blunder in Sunday’s presidential debate, millions of voters can respond almost immediately. They can fill out a mail-in ballot right away or head to a polling location the next day. Early voting is on the rise in America. More than 45 million…
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Get your ballots ready: Voting in White House race underway
Get ready: Voting in the 2016 election is now underway. Advance voting begins Friday in North Carolina, the first of 37 states that will allow balloting by mail for any reason or in person before the actual Election Day of Nov. 8. It’s part of a nearly nine-week campaign frenzy in which millions of voters…
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What If: Could Clinton win it before Election Day?
Election Day isn’t what it used to be. The presidential winner may be all but known by then, thanks to early voting. Beginning Friday, residents in North Carolina can submit absentee mail-in ballots – the first of 37 states and the District Columbia to vote by mail or at polling sites before Nov. 8. Four…
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Early voting around the corner: Trump chances may hinge on non-whites
Two months before Election Day, early voting kicks off next week in North Carolina, the first in a run of key states where minority voters and young adults who cast ballots in advance could give one of the White House contenders a decisive advantage. For Donald Trump, it’s a major test of whether his recent outreach…