voter registration

Kent Thiry urges Colorado Republicans against calling off next year’s primary election

Sep 15, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The wealthy executive who championed a ballot measure to let unaffiliated voters cast ballots in Colorado primaries is urging state Republicans to defeat a proposal to scrap next year’s primary election and instead nominate candidates at party assemblies. The Colorado GOP plans to consider whether to cancel the primary at a meeting of the Republican…
A surge in unaffiliated voters helps set a new record for Colorado

Aug 15, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

For all you hand-wringers fretting over the purportedly fragile state of our democracy – worrying that voters are turning away from politics out of frustration, disgust, apathy or, most recently, out of fear their personal voter data will be shared with the feds – Colorado has a tonic for you: Voter registration just hit…
Colorado GOP chair predicts effort to scrap primary will fail

Aug 9, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Republicans will decide in September whether to cancel next year’s primary election rather than allow unaffiliated voters to participate, party officials said this week, although the state GOP chairman says he’s confident the proposal will go down in flames. State voters approved Proposition 108 last year, allowing unaffiliated voters – a smidgeon over one-third…
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams turns over state voter data to White House commission

Aug 1, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado’s secretary of state’s office successfully submitted voter data Tuesday to a White House commission on election fraud, capping a month of heated controversy over the request. The office was unable to send the data on Monday, as originally planned, due to a computer glitch, but received confirmation the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity had…
Election officials slam Kobach claim that Colorado voters canceling registration might be felons, non-citizens

Jul 15, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Election officials on Friday tore into a suggestion by the co-chair of a White House commission on election fraud that Colorado voters withdrawing their registration might have something to hide. After Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the Republican vice chair of the bipartisan Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, asked for extensive voter registration data…
Democrat Jena Griswold scolds Secretary of State Wayne Williams for bowing to voter data request

Jul 14, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Democratic Secretary of State candidate Jena Griswold blasted Republican incumbent Wayne Williams on Friday for agreeing to go along with a White House election commission’s request for voter data even as privacy advocates challenged its legality and thousands of Colorado voters were canceling their registrations. But a spokeswoman for Williams said the secretary has simply…
Democrat Jena Griswold launches campaign for Colorado secretary of state

Jul 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Declaring she will “stand up against the Trump Administration, and protect Coloradans’ right to vote,” Democrat Jena Griswold on Wednesday launched her campaign for Colorado secretary of state with attacks on a White House commission devoted to examining voter fraud. “As Secretary of State, I will ensure that Colorado continues to have the most secure…
Federal election commission puts a hold on request for Colorado voter data

Jul 11, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The White House election commission that’s caused such a stir with its request for troves of voter data from every state hit the pause button Monday. In an email delivered to Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams and other election officials across the country, an officer with the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity told officials to…
Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet blasts White House election commission as a ‘taxpayer-funded fishing expedition’

Jul 5, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a Democrat, on Tuesday tore into the White House election commission that asked last week for detailed voter registration data from all 50 states, saying the request “raises serious privacy concerns” and could dampen voter participation. The bipartisan Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, chaired by Vice President Mike Pence…
Colorado SOS Wayne Williams says he’ll turn over publicly available voter data to White House election commission, withhold private info

Jun 29, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams said Thursday he plans to fulfill a White House commission’s request for detailed state voter data by providing the same publicly available information that would be available to anyone who asks – but he’ll hold back certain data considered confidential. Along with every other secretary of state in the country,…