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Lest we overlook all the local elections next week …
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…The Secretary of State’s Office’s Julia Sunny, writing for Lynn Bartels’s blog, offers a solid and helpful overview of the many candidates and issues facing voters on local ballots across this vast state of ours this coming Tuesday. From setting up local broadband service to allowing retail pot sales (state law allows local opt-in/opt-out), to…
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Let’s say it again: Every vote counts. Here’s why …
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It wasn’t long ago that Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams penned a “Podium” commentary for us, pointing out for us how every vote can be pivotal. And leave it to the elections watchdogs at Williams’s office to provide us not one but 14 – yes, fourteen – examples from just this past election. As…
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Latest mega-contribution in DougCo school board race draws scrutiny, complaint
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A boatload of cash has been pouring into some Denver-area school board races – particularly in the make-or-break face-off over control of the Douglas County School District’s board of education. The board has been run since 2009 by a succession of reform-minded majorities whose agenda has included enacting a school-voucher program (as-yet unimplemented amid a…
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The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office is always looking for a teachable moment…
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…And its staff is coming to a gathering near you, sometime soon, to teach you more about voting and election issues. Speaking of which, Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams sure gets around, doesn’t he? As chronicled on SOS communications czarina Lynn Bartels’s blog, Williams always seems to be bringing good news about the state’s…
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4 Colorado ex-governors + 1 current guv + 1 Lynn Bartels = a fun read
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All of Colorado’s living ex-governors and the one who’s still in office – that John Hickenlooper fella – sat in on the same panel discussion Thursday, weighing in on the heavy issue of partisanship in contemporary politics. Yes, all five of them: Dick Lamm, Roy Romer, Bill Owens, Bill Ritter and Hick himself. They of course…
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Colorado candidates will get a chance to fix errors on campaign filings
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Lynn Bartels at the Secretary of State’s Office blogs about an obscure but far-reaching campaign-finance reform signed into law this week by Gov. John Hickenlooper, giving candidates for office “… a chance to correct errors on campaign-finance reports and avoid what could be absurd fines.” As we’ve noted before, the bipartisan House Bill 1155 aims to curb the abuse…
