Colorado Politics

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.

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.

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’.

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

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

Former party leaders, county commissioners and Congressional members are divided over Marx’s unconventional background.

It took two years, one veto and the voices of survivors to get Colorado to enact new protections for rideshares.