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  • 4 Colorado counties granted $630,000 to upgrade record systems

    4 Colorado counties granted $630,000 to upgrade record systems

    Four counties in rural Colorado will receive over $630,000 to modernize their record systems through a state grant program.  Phillips, Moffat, Clear Creek and Baca counties will use the funds to provide digital access to records, maintain and upgrade recording technologies, and properly index historical documents, officials said. The grant awards were announced on Thursday. …


  • Colorado offers Spanish voter registration, multi-language ballot interpretation hotline

    Colorado offers Spanish voter registration, multi-language ballot interpretation hotline

    Spanish-speaking Coloradans can register to vote and access information about the upcoming November election at VayaVotarColorado.gov. The website offers Spanish instructions for registering to vote, updating voter registration, tracking a ballot, and finding nearby drop boxes, polling centers and county clerks. The website and its information come directly from the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. …


  • Ballot certified for Colorado’s November election

    Ballot certified for Colorado’s November election

    It’s official: The ballot for Colorado’s November election was certified on Monday.  On Nov. 7, Colorado voters will decide the fate of two statewide ballot measures and the winning candidates of dozens of local mayoral, city council and school board races. Local initiatives will also be considered in some counties.  “In just two months, Coloradans…


  • Colorado Center Party becomes state’s newest political party

    Colorado Center Party becomes state’s newest political party

    Coloradans now have a seventh minor political party to choose from when casting ballots and registering to vote.  The Colorado Center Party was officially recognized as a minor political party on Wednesday, after at least 1,000 registered voters affiliated with the group by July 1 when it was a qualified political organization, the Secretary of State’s Office…


  • Colorado counties awarded nearly $1M to boost election security

    Colorado counties awarded nearly $1M to boost election security

    Almost every county in Colorado received grants to upgrade the physical security at their election offices over the last year. In total, 56 counties were given more than $945,000 in grant awards, the Secretary of State’s Office announced on Tuesday. The grant program was created by Senate Bill 22-153, passed by state legislators in 2022 in response…


  • ‘No Labels’ becomes Colorado’s newest political party

    ‘No Labels’ becomes Colorado’s newest political party

    Coloradans now have a sixth minor political party to choose from when casting ballots and registering to vote: the “No Labels” party.  The No Labels Colorado Party has been officially recognized as a minor political party in Colorado as of Wednesday, after submitting a sufficient number of signatures to qualify, the Secretary of State’s Office…


  • Recount confirms Democrat Bob Marshall as winner in Colorado’s House District 43 race

    Recount confirms Democrat Bob Marshall as winner in Colorado’s House District 43 race

    Democrat Robert “Bob” Marshall was officially declared the winner in the election for Colorado’s House District 43 on Monday, following a recount requested by Republican opponent Rep. Kurt Huffman.  Results from the Secretary of State’s Office show that Marshall and Huffman each lost one vote in the recount, keeping Marshall’s margin of victory exactly the same as the…


  • Secretary of State approves recount in Colorado’s House District 43 race

    Secretary of State approves recount in Colorado’s House District 43 race

    The election results for House District 43 will be recounted after the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office on Thursday accepted a recount request from Republican Rep. Kurt Huffman. Based on the uncertified election results, Democratic candidate Robert “Bob” Marshall won the House District 43 seat in Douglas County, beating Huffman by 405 votes. Marshall received…


  • Colorado’s 2022 ballot returns still 9,000 short of 2018 turnout

    Colorado’s 2022 ballot returns still 9,000 short of 2018 turnout

    Colorado’s ballot returns for the 2022 election climbed to nearly 2.56 million, but they still fell short of the voter turnout during the last midterm election.  As of 11:59 p.m. Sunday, 2,557,562 ballots were returned, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. That total is 9,222 fewer than the 2,566,784 ballots that were cast in Colorado in…


  • Ballot curing in Colorado: How does it work?

    Ballot curing in Colorado: How does it work?

    The result of Colorado’s highest profile election could come down to the thousands of ballots provisionally rejected over signature discrepancies – but there’s a still way for those ballots to be counted. In Colorado, voters can “cure” their ballots to allow their vote to be counted if they forgot to sign the ballot envelope, if…


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