voter registration

Ken Buck: Unaffiliated voters want Republicans to be bold, to paint in bright colors

Apr 4, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck says there’s a clear reason unaffiliated voters have taken the lead in registration numbers in Colorado – ahead of both Republicans and Democrats – and there’s a simple way for the GOP to win their allegiance. “You know why the purple, the unaffiliateds are the highest?” the Windsor Republican asked members…
Noonan: Political parties must change or die. What then?

Mar 17, 2017

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Paula Noonan

Our political parties are approaching an end game. A quick look at March registration numbers tells the story. Among active voters, Democrats and Republicans are even in registration. Unaffiliated voter registrations exceed both parties by 200,000 people. The short-term problem for Democrats in 2018 when voting numbers will be low is that Republicans have about…
Colorado’s voter turnout ranks near top for third presidential election running

Mar 17, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado again landed among the top-performing states measured by voter turnout in last year’s election, according to a national report released Thursday. For the third election cycle running – and the third presidential cycle in a row – Colorado ranked among the states with the highest turnout, coming in fourth place with 72.1 percent turnout.…
Here it’s a ‘campus free speech bill’; there it’s a ‘Milo bill,’ of course

Feb 17, 2017

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John Tomasic

In Colorado, sponsors call the legislative proposal a “campus free speech bill.” Sponsors in Tennessee call their version the “Milo Bill,” after Milo Yiannopoulos, the right-wing provocateur and Breitbart News editor, whose deliberately offensive college speaking appearances have often generated protest and occasionally violence. Colorado’s Senate Bill 62 is being sponsored by libertarian-conservative Tim Neville,…
Denver Elections Division wins prestigious international award

Jan 26, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Joining the ranks of Jimmy Carter, Madeleine Albright and Nelson Mandela, the Denver Elections Division has been honored by the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies for developing an application that allows voters to register and on electronic tablets instead of paper. Denver’s award was for its eSign app and its Voter Registration Drive module and…
? Noonan: Both parties chastened by voters registering Unaffiliated en masse

Oct 18, 2016

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Paula Noonan

Voter registration trends for Colorado’s major political parties are getting worse by the month. The “totals” look bad and the “younger voters” numbers are terrible. Here are the facts: Sept. 1 registered voter numbers for Democrats: 1,166, 819; for Republicans: 1,147,424; and for Unaffiliateds: 1,337,145. Oct. 1 registered voter numbers for Democrats: 1,177,863; for Republicans: 1,154,370; for Unaffiliateds:…
Denver elections gears up for busy time

Oct 6, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

Voter registration, boosted by online registration drives by Facebook and Google in recent weeks, have swelled Denver’s numbers by 59 percent over the same period in the last general election. Denver Elections Director Amber McReynolds presented the figures and other information to the Denver City Council Finance and Governance committee Tuesday, Oct. 4, a little…
Ahead of the big vote, where does Colorado stand on election security?

Sep 28, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

Security and accuracy are what make the U.S. election system work correctly, so when either one of them is suspected or found to be at fault, it raises concerns from the public and those who oversee its operation. Last week, Colorado’s voter registration system was the subject of a Denver CBS4 investigation that uncovered several potential…
GOP consultant Dustin Olson stresses authenticity, ability to connect with stories

Sep 22, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Republican political consultant Dustin Olson has been at the center of national politics and numerous local campaigns – he and his wife, Carolyn, just celebrated the 10th anniversary of Olson Strategies & Advertising, their Colorado-based firm – but it was a few days he spent touring Civil War battlefields and shopping at Wal-Mart with a comic…
Libertarian candidate Williams qualifies for Club 20’s U.S. Senate debate

Sep 7, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Libertarian candidate Lily Tang Williams will share the stage at the first U.S. Senate debate on Saturday in Grand Junction between Michael Bennet, the incumbent Democrat, and El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn, his Republican challenger. It’ll be the first time in memory that a third-party or independent candidate has appeared at a debate sponsored…