The head of the Colorado County Clerks Association says he’s confident the state will have safe and secure elections despite federal “chaos.”

A construction industry-backed group says a “funding framework” they’ve agreed to with Democrats at the Colorado Capitol will provide more dollars than Initiative 175 would have.

The pardons come three months after the governor commuted the sentence of former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters. More pardons and commutations are still possible in Polis’ final year.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has joined a lawsuit opposing new rules on mail-in balloting.

Candidates from the Democratic and Republican parties get most of the votes and the attention, but dozens of independent and third-party candidates will be running for offices up and down the ballot in Colorado this fall.

Since her sentence was cut short, Peters has toured conspiracy conferences, stood with Trump in the Oval Office and drawn interest from a California elections office.

Initiative 232 was brought by the conservative political nonprofit Advance Colorado and seeks to derail a push by liberal groups to pass a separate graduated income tax ballot measure this year.

The high cost of getting a measure on the ballot has given wealthy interests more power to push their agendas.

In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden won the 8th Congressional District by 5 points. But in 2024, Donald Trump won it by 2 points — a larger margin of victory than Evans’.

A final decision is expected to be made later this year by party leaders.