Due to Governor Polis’ Executive Order, the NSRF meeting on Saturday, November 14th has been cancelled.
It seems Covid-19 led to Biden-20, unfortunately….
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Adams County Politics, Ballot Issue, Candidates, Colorado politics, Denver area politics, Elections, Issues, National politics, NSRF Business, POTUS, SCOTUS, Site News, TABOR, Taxes 29.10.2020 No Comments
Mail ballot rejections in the 2020 election remain below average, but are expected to rise and disproportionately affect younger voters, an analysis showsJesus Balderrama voted for the first time in a presidential election this year. But a few days after sending in his ballot, which the Grand Junction resident marked for Democrat Joe Biden, he received a letter from election officials about a discrepancy with his signature.
The letter directed Balderrama to send a text to a number, which in turn sent him a website link. He visited the website and verified his identity by signing an affidavit and submitting a photo of his ID.
“It was quick, took like five minutes,” he said. “Pretty cool.”
This year, Colorado election officials are making an extra effort to address the fact that roughly 90% of all mail ballots that get rejected could have been fixed and counted. The text-to-cure program that Balderrama described is just one step.
Ballot-return data shows more than 10,000 mail ballots had been rejected through midday Wednesday, an analysis by The Colorado Sun found. That represents 0.5% of total ballots cast to date, below the average rate of 0.86% for the past two elections.
But the proportion of rejected ballots is expected to rise through Election Day. In 2016, more than 24,000 ballots didn’t count. And the trend lines show young voters like Balderrama are once again being disproportionately affected.
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Adams County Politics, Ballot Issue, Colorado politics, Denver area politics, Editorial, Elections, Issues, Liberal Logic, National politics, NSRF Business, POTUS, Site News 01.10.2020 No Comments
In November, Colorado voters will decide whether to affirm or repeal the legislature’s 2019 decision to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, but he lost the national popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million votes.
The split verdict — the fifth time in U.S. history — brought new attention in Colorado and elsewhere to efforts aimed at modifying or replacing the Electoral College, America’s system to elect presidents.
In November, Colorado voters will decide whether to affirm or repeal the legislature’s 2019 decision to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact with Proposition 113. Right now, the state awards its nine electoral votes to the candidate who wins the most votes in Colorado. If the law survives, enough states join the national compact and it overcomes any court challenges, Colorado could potentially hand over its nine electoral votes to the candidate who wins the most votes nationwide — the national popular vote. The intent of the law is to circumvent the Electoral College system of choosing presidents by state in order to ensure the candidate who wins the most support nationally also wins the election.
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Adams County Politics, Ballot Issue, Candidates, Colorado politics, Denver area politics, Elections, Issues, National politics, NSRF Business, POTUS 30.09.2020 No Comments
Denver Elections Division workers accept drop-off ballots at the Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation Center in Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood on Primary Election Day, June 30, 2020. (Eric Lubbers, The Colorado Sun)
Proposition 113 explained: Colorado voters could push the U.S. closer to a national popular vote system
In November, Colorado voters will decide whether to affirm or repeal the legislature’s 2019 decision to join the national popular vote interstate compact
PUBLISHED ON SEP 30, 2020 1:37AM MDT
The Colorado Sun | evan@coloradosun.com
Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, but he lost the national popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million votes.
The split verdict — the fifth time in U.S. history — brought new attention in Colorado and elsewhere to efforts aimed at modifying or replacing the Electoral College, America’s system to elect presidents.
In November, Colorado voters will decide whether to affirm or repeal the legislature’s 2019 decision to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact with Proposition 113. Right now, the state awards its nine electoral votes to the candidate who wins the most votes in Colorado. If the law survives, enough states join the national compact and it overcomes any court challenges, Colorado could potentially hand over its nine electoral votes to the candidate who wins the most votes nationwide — the national popular vote. The intent of the law is to circumvent the Electoral College system of choosing presidents by state in order to ensure the candidate who wins the most support nationally also wins the election.
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1st Amendment, Adams County Politics, Colorado politics, Denver area politics, Editorial, Issues, Liberal Logic, National politics, NSRF Business 28.09.2020 No Comments
For a 50-minute
documentary film, “Denver In Decay” has sure made the rounds in town, around the state and the country. People are reacting – and that’s a good thing. Not only are they reacting with critical e-mail, mean texts and accusatory social media postings – but with messages from dozens and dozens of fed-up folks who have used the same word: finally. Finally someone showed the madness for what it is. And we did.
I’ve now worked in Denver parts of four decades. I love it here. I care. It is the most basic reason this film was made. But today, it is way too easy to cast something/someone aside simply because of the party they vote for.
I’ve long-considered both Gov. Jared Polis and Mayor Michael Hancock my friends. Both men are friendly, funny and easy to be around. After “Denver in Decay,” are those friendships over? Up to them. The truth hurts.
Both do not appear in the film because our messages, texts and phone calls were never returned. Not our fault if gatekeepers didn’t deliver those messages. The same is true for a number of politicians, from Federico Peña to Rhonda Fields.
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A once clean, proud city finds itself in the shadow of violent unrest and a homeless crisis. Source data for Denver in Decay can be found here: http://bit.ly/denver-in-decay-resourc…
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2nd Amendment, Colorado politics, Issues, Legal Issues, Liberal Logic, National politics, SCOTUS 26.09.2020 No Comments
Boulder gun owners petition SCOTUS for hearing
Aerial view of Boulder, Colorado
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(The Center Square) — Boulder gun owners hope the U.S. Supreme Court will take up their case against the city over its restrictions on gun ownership.
The Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF), a conservative public interest law firm, on Thursday petitioned the court to overturn a federal court’s decision not to hold a hearing in Caldara v. Boulder.
MSLF made oral arguments in the case before a federal appellate court in 2019. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals put the case on hold earlier this year, saying it’s up to the Colorado Supreme Court to issue a ruling.
The lawsuit alleges that Boulder residents face hefty fines and jail time for possessing firearms that are legal elsewhere in the state and most other places across the country. The city also has a firearm purchase age of 21 years old, which MSLF alleges is discriminatory and unconstitutional.
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Adams County Politics, Ballot Issue, Colorado politics, Denver area politics, Elections, Issues, Liberal Logic, National politics, NSRF Business, POTUS, Site News 19.09.2020 No Comments
BOULDER–In an editorial published September 12, the Boulder Daily Camera editorial board reversed its previous support for Colorado joining the National Popular Vote Compact (NPVC), and is now urging a “no” vote on Proposition 113 on the November ballot.
Prop 113 is a citizen initiated referendum on the NPVC statute, which was passed by the Democrat-controlled legislature last year. A no vote repeals the statute, keeping Colorado out of the compact.
In a 2019 editorial the Daily Camera said the compact has “drawbacks” that “subjugated state will to national interest, and the results, taken out of context, appear extreme.”
The editorial board excused that flaw, saying, “Satisfactory national results should take precedence over state-level electorate-elector imbalances. A state under the compact’s regime might find its electoral position out of whack with that of its voters as a bloc, but as individuals its voters will have been heard…”
