This week’s High Country Advocate coverage advances two major series examining Colorado’s election integrity and the political forces reshaping the state.
The elections series reached four new installments. Part 10 documents the fracturing of ERIC, the national voter-roll system, with nine Republican-led states departing and leaving the organization governed almost entirely by Democratic-led states representing 130 million people versus 20.8 million on the GOP side. Parts 15 and 16 introduce the term “gerrypandering” — the use of mass illegal immigration, sanctuary policies, and census counting to inflate congressional seats and federal funding without redrawing a single district line. The 2020 census shifted roughly 17 House seats through non-citizen counts, directly diluting rural Colorado’s voice in Washington. Part 17 tallies the financial cost, noting Denver spent over $356 million on migrant services since 2022. Part 18 closes the series with a reform agenda: count only citizens for apportionment, end sanctuary policies, mandate E-Verify, and clean voter rolls.
On the primary front, a Denver judge denied three Republican candidates’ bid to block unaffiliated voters from Colorado’s June 30 primary. From Lake County, Republican Matthew Main formally entered the race for County Commissioner District 1, citing 18 years of local service and a platform built on limited government and fiscal responsibility.
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