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Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters and state Rep. Ron Hanks, R-Canon City, have both filed a second request for hand recounts tied to the June 28 primary. Hanks is seeking a recount only in El Paso and Pueblo counties. Peters, meanwhile, is seeking a statewide recount. ... Both also are seeking a laundry list of other data, most of which the Secretary of State's Office said would have to come from each individual county. The requests asked for all "Cast Vote Records"; ballot drop box records; video surveillance of drop boxes, sorting and counting rooms; adjudication and tabulation...

Lynda Zamora Wilson is a retired US Air Force officer with a PhD in Economics, an MS in Mathematics, MA in International Economics, and an MA in Education. She was a senior economist at the Pentagon and an f-22 Flight Test Analyst. Earlier this year Lynda jumped into the Republican primary race against incumbent state Senator Paul Lundeen. ... Paul Lundeen, the GOP Minority Whip, is known as a RINO and Lynda Zamora Lundeen was new to politics. Lynda was a grassroots favorite. Via Colorado Politics — In April at the Colorado State Republican Party assembly Lynda Zamora Wilson won...

Over the weekend it was reported that Georgia would soon be purging over 100k names from the voter rolls after last year’s election: Georgia will pull about 100,000 “obsolete and outdated voter files” after recent voting rights law controversies, according to its secretary of state. “Making sure Georgia’s voter rolls are up to date is key to ensuring the integrity of our elections,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement. ... Trump just released this statement on the purge, saying it was proof that he won the state of Georgia: “Georgia now plans to remove over 100,000 ‘obsolete...

A lawsuit filed Monday in US District Court in Denver alleges the Colorado Secretary of State's office failed to clean up its voter rolls in compliance with the National Voter Registration Act. The conservative, non-partisan educational foundation Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit along with three voters from El Paso, Elbert and Adams counties. During the summer of 2019, the group commissioned a study where they compared voter registration data collected by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) with the most recent five-year Census Bureau estimates of the voting-age population. Their study found that 40 of Colorado's 64 counties reported registration...

Texas' voter ID law that was twice blocked over findings of discrimination can stay in effect for the 2018 elections, a U.S. appeals court ruled Friday. It was the second major ruling over voting rights in the U.S. this week after an Arkansas judge on Thursday blocked that state's voter ID measure as unconstitutional. But in a 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, the Texas law that critics have slammed as one of the toughest voter ID measures in the nation was seen as a suitable replacement for the original 2011 law that...

Votes Percent PRESIDENT-VICE PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON DEM 2,110,538 71.54 DONALD J TRUMP REP, AI 681,971 23.12 GARY JOHNSON LIB 76,520 2.59 JILL STEIN GRN 63,337 2.15 GLORIA E LA RIVA PF 17,863 0.61 TOTAL PRECINCTS 4,988 PRECINCTS REPORTING* 4,988 100 REGISTRATION** 5,103,353

WASHINGTON — Field workers for President Obama’s campaign fanned out across the country over the weekend in an effort to confront a barrage of new voter identification laws that strategists say threaten the campaign’s hopes for registering new voters ahead of the November election. Many of the laws in question — including the ones in Florida and Wisconsin — are the subject of legal challenges by Democratic groups who say they are part of a partisan, Republican effort to dampen the turnout of voters, particularly members of minority groups, for Mr. Obama and his party. But senior aides to Mr....