President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%↑
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd
(D) Adam Frisch
50%
50%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
52%↑
48%↓
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
November 10, 2011 06:54 PM UTC
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so maybe one of the Guvs should pick up the phone and call him.
so maybe one of the Guvs should pick up the phone and call him.
Not sure how I ended up here twice….
Roper did a much better job on Wednesday with the facts of the story. We’re satisfied with his coverage at this point, but the Sunday editorial is even harder to justify in light of Roper’s story yesterday.
But I think he’s on the editorial board or was. I’ll try to check later this morning if someone hasn’t beat me to it.
These people never should have voted in the first place.
They were inactive, too lazy, stupid, apathetic, or drunk to vote last time or request a ballot or memorize the the shifting voter laws and policies of Colorado and their voting residence. What part of inactive do you not understand?
If they wanted to vote this time, they should have voted last time. Get it now?
I believe in this instance, you would say “Democrat.”
This is not about denying any registered voter the opportunity to vote. No legal registered voter was ever denied their opportunity to vote. A very small percentage of voters who failed to vote in the prior election, and also failed to respond to at least two reminders sent by U.S. Mail to their address, needed to contact their county clerk to have a ballot mailed to them. Failing that, any registered voter was able to contact their clerk before election day and either obtain a ballot to drop off or vote at a vote center.
My point, of course, is not that marginal voters who haven’t taken responsibility for their status should not be allowed to vote if they want to. Of course they should. As a matter of civic duty, I take it upon myself to be educated both on the issues and candidates I’m voting on, and the elections themselves. The laws are not “shifting,” Democrats did not include an extension of the temporary policy sending ballots to inactives in their legislation. The process remains otherwise unchanged.
I simply believe that informed, participating citizens are the ones who should be casting ballots. As John F. Kennedy said, “the ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” Don’t you agree? Haven’t you said that about Republicans sometime?
Part of being responsible means when your clerk sends you MULTIPLE postcards clearly indicating a simple action on your part is necessary to have a ballot automatically mailed to you, you follow the provided instructions to take said simple action. It’s not a problem for me, because I vote in every municipal, primary, and general election. If someone can’t do these simple things, I feel I can rightly question their responsibility as voters.
Does this help? Do you have anything to say besides the usual ad hominem deflections? I hope you do!
(unlike you, Eg: When i it appropriate to ever raise taxes?)
But there’s a difference between “responsibility” and the right to vote. Citizens get to vote, responsible or not.
The law doesn’t say ballots cannot or shall not be mailed to defined inactive voters.
The elections guy in Pueblo thought there would be a higher than predicted response from the inactive voters, and he was right. Problem solved.
As though his intellect was even big enough to be detectable.
that the return rate for inactive voters was actually comparable to some precincts from the old days of precinct polling places in off year elections. I kinda miss those days, since you could get a few bucks and have time to catch up on your reading as a poll worker.
It was a dying, irrelevant, amateurish piece of garbage hardly worthy to wrap fish with before. And it still is.
It is what it is. Who gives a crap about the Pueblo Chieftain?