Voting

Roughly 1 in 4 Native Americans are not registered to vote, according to the Native American Rights Fund, which analyzed Census Bureau data. In recent years, however, three Mountain West states have passed laws to allow tribes to register them automatically.

Residents in Steamboat Springs rejected a city plan to annex 420 acres of the Brown Ranch property. The property was intended to help provide affordable housing to more than 6,000 workers. The plan also called for the city to invest in parks, improvements to Highway 40 and police and fire stations. Colorado Sun reporter Jason Blevins joined KUNC's Michael Lyle, Jr. to discuss the aftermath of the vote.

Automatic voter registration systems are in place across the country, but Native American reservations have historically been excluded—until now. State and tribal officials in Colorado are rolling out the first voter registration system of its kind for tribal members ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

A new bill introduced this week in the state legislature would make historic advances in voting access for Colorado’s two Native American tribes. It would also expand access to students and inmates, and make changes to ballot counts, election transparency and campaign finance.

The race between Republican Lauren Boebert and Democrat Adam Frisch in the 3rd Congressional District will be decided by the end of the week. Proposition 125 hasn’t been called yet, but seems to be heading towards approval.

Colorado residents have voted to rewrite the state’s tax law to direct an estimated $300 million a year to affordable housing projects. The ballot initiative funnels a fraction of Colorado’s taxable income into programs that include helping essential workers buy homes and supporting local governments to increase affordable housing stock.

Her victory also guarantees there will be more Colorado Democrats than Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The 2022 midterm elections are over — or at least the voting is over. Many of the biggest races were called Tuesday night, but other results may not come in for days or weeks to come. How did the elections go, for you, and your family and your community?

As of this morning, more than 1.7 million ballots were returned in Colorado, according to data from the Colorado Secretary of State’s website. Most of those ballots came from unaffiliated voters, followed by Democrats and Republican voters. Yet, participation is lagging even further behind previous years.

El Distrito 8 recién formado en Colorado tiene más votantes latinos que cualquier otro Distrito del Estado. Y aunque tanto los Republicanos como los Demócratas esperan obtener sus votos, la comunidad latina no es un monolito político.