voter registration
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Colorado SOS Wayne Williams says he’ll turn over publicly available voter data to White House election commission, withhold private info
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,…
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Noonan: Political parties must change or die. What then?
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…
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Colorado’s voter turnout ranks near top for third presidential election running
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.…
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Here it’s a ‘campus free speech bill’; there it’s a ‘Milo bill,’ of course
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,…
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Denver Elections Division wins prestigious international award
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…
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? Noonan: Both parties chastened by voters registering Unaffiliated en masse
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:…
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Denver elections gears up for busy time
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…