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VOLUME 127 | ISSUE 22

Pioneer Fourth returns to museum Kiowa celebration is year’s largest fundraiser for facility in former school

BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

The yearly Elizabeth Cardinal Club 5k begins at Evans Park and concludes at Casey Jones Park.

PHOTO BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON

Elizabeth Cardinal Club run is scorcher Caden Farnsworth, 16, takes first place in 5k on hot Independence Day

BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

The Elizabeth Cardinal Club held its fourth annual 5k run on July 4, bringing in 35 racers from around the community to compete for prizes and bragging rights. The racers ranged in age from small children to seniors. Some participants ran while others walked. Several families registered together and completed the race in groups.

The race weaved throughout Evans Park and Casey Jones Park, culminating in a Fourth of July SEE 5K RUN, P4

The Elbert County Historical Society & Museum held its 22nd annual Pioneer Fourth celebration on the Fourth of July. The event — the museum’s largest fundraiser of the year — was held on the grounds of the museum in Kiowa and drew attendees from across the county.

The celebration held several events including a watermelon-eating contest, silent auction, and the anticipated pie-baking contest. After the pie-baking contest, each pie was auctioned off to the highest bidder.

All proceeds from the auction go to the museum. This year, one pie was auctioned for $620, the highest in the event’s history.

In addition, the event had several family-oriented activities, including kids games, face painting, cornhole and live music from local Colorado bands. Local fiber artists shared how to make wool on spinning wheels.

Traditional Fourth of July food was cooked by local volunteers and sold to support the museum.

“It was a great day. We had a fantastic turnout,” said Joe Martell, president of the Elbert County Historical Society. “It was the best that we’ve ever had in terms of attendance,

Volunteers with the Elizabeth Cardinal Club, which holds the yearly 5k run.

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MUSEUM

FROM PAGE 1

The Pioneer Fourth event had several games for children.

weather, and just general overall enthusiasm for the museum.”

The Pioneer Fourth celebration holds a lot of significance for many longtime Kiowa residents. The Elbert County Museum building was once the original Kiowa High School. Several of the older Kiowa residents went to school in the building and aim to work to help preserve it and keep the history of the space and Elbert County alive for the next generations to experience.

“I graduated in 1959. This is where I went to high school,” said Kiowa local Nita McKnight. “This event is really great for the community because it’s a source of teaching the history of Kiowa. The historical society and museum helps give our kids info about where they live.”

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The Elbert County Museum is housed in the former Kiowa School.

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MUSEUM FROM PAGE 2

Like most local museums on the high plains, the Elbert County Historical Society and Museum is only open from Memorial Day to Labor Day each year. Currently, the museum is open Thursday-Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free, though donations are welcomed and encouraged.

This year’s main exhibit is called “Music on the Plains.” It focuses on early music in the area, including musicians and instruments associated with Elbert County. The exhibit presents an abundance of photos and stories.

In a phone interview with Martell, he said, “We haven’t calculated how much money the event raised yet, but I think that with the great confidence, this was our best year yet.”

To learn about the Elbert County Historical Society and Museum, please visit elbertcountymuseum. org.

Several volunteers worked together to provide food for the event.

A face-painting station was set up under the pines at the Pioneer Fourth gathering.

Several pies are arrayed across a table for the pie-baking contest. One pie was auctioned for $620.

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The Pioneer Fourth celebration is held yearly to benefit the Elbert County Historical Society and Museum.

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5K RUN

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Racers prepare to complete in the 5k run staged by the Elizabeth Cardinal Club.

The race “sweeper” with his canine companion. He follows behind the final racer.

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Members of the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provided the breakfast.

The winner of the race was 16-year-old Caden Farnsworth, upcoming junior at Elizabeth High School. Farnsworth plays varsity soccer for the school and is currently ranked #198 in the state of Colorado. When asked what keeps him motivated while running a race, he says it is self-improvement and wanting to be a better soccer player.

“I really want to continue improving myself and be a better athlete,” Farnsworth said. “When I’m running, I think a lot about soccer and beating our competitors.” Farnsworth finished the 5k in 24 minutes and 28 seconds.

The goal of the event was to help raise funds to support local student athletes.

The Elizabeth Cardinal Club is a nonprofit organization focused on raising money to support scholarship opportunities for student athletes continuing their education beyond high school. The club also provides funds to sports teams that need help funding equipment.

Throughout the 2021-2022 school year, the Elizabeth Cardinal Club provided 11 seniors with scholarships ranging from $250 to $1,000 based on academics, athletic involvement and community service. This year’s Fourth of July 5k event raised $850 for the club.

“We are so grateful to everyone who came out to support the Elizabeth Cardinal Club,” said Sherry Settle, the club’s secretary. “All the funds go toward funding student athletes. It’s really great.”

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It was a warm summer day, leaving a lot of runners hot and dehydrated.

Though the morning started off cool, it soon became unbearably hot. Firstplace runner Farnsworth commented at the finish line that he’d thrown up along the course and that the heat was extreme. Second-place runner Elijah Bolger, 16, also commented on the extreme heat as he finished. “I puked like five times. I’ve never thrown up at a race before.”

Prior to COVID-19, the Elizabeth Cardinal Club held the 5k event on Super Bowl Sunday. However, due to issues with inclement weather and icy trail conditions, the event was moved to the Fourth of July. “In the two years we’ve held it on July Fourth, we have had a good turnout,” said Elizabeth Cardinal Club president Jamie Lindsay. “I think the participants found running the course to be challenging and fun.”

The race was sponsored by several local businesses and organizations, six of which helped to fund the volunteer and runner T-shirts. The sponsors included Creekside Animal Hospital, Gymnastics ETC, Movement Mortgage, Elbert County Pools and Spas, Home Service Pros LLC and DND Welding.

Both Catalina’s Diner and Dairy Queen donated prizes for the racers.

For information on the Elizabeth Cardinal Club, please follow them on Facebook at facebook.com/ElizabethCardinal-Club-328495174568008.

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Then there was Farrell’s, and later, Swensen’s, but these were both chains that came here from other places. Nothing about them was particularly connected to Colorado. And in more recent history, the opening of Magill’s in Lakewood and Bonnie Brae in south Denver signaled that a new era was at hand.

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To be clear, this is no contest. The order of the list is not scientific or any type of ranking at all, but merely the order in which they popped into the author’s head. You may use it as a type of map, as it were, to the coolest mini road trip in the metro. Pun intended.

• Bonnie Brae Ice Cream opened in 1986 and has been cranking out the cold stuff ever since.

• Little Man Ice Cream Company started in 2008 in the Lower Highlands neighborhood and has grown to six distinct locations across the Front Range including — aside from the flagship store — The Little Man Ice Cream Factory, DANG Soft Serve, Old Town Churn, The Constellation and Sweet Cooies.

• Sweet Cow now has six locations plus a truck, the MooMobile. Their ice cream is made in small batches and crafted at each location.

• Liks Ice Cream has been a staple in Capitol Hill forever. They’re

family-owned and now have a second location in Conifer.

• Nuggs, the brainchild of Chris and Nick O’Sullivan of Brother’s BBQ, has been serving cool, creamy treats to folks in Park Hill and Mayfair since 2014.

• Magill’s on the west side of Denver has had you covered for the last four decades. This unassuming Lakewood strip-mall shop has them lined up most evenings, no matter the weather. The huckleberry is to die for. Plus, it’s just fun to say huckleberry.

• Sweet Action opened on Broadway in 2009 and now has four locations serving flavors as fun as you’ll find anywhere, with plenty of vegan options in the mix. You can also find them in Washington Park, Uptown and Jefferson Park.

• High Point Creamery’s Erika Thomas and Chad Stutz have been serving ice cream with elevated flavor profiles in Hilltop, RINO and Berkeley. They also have a food truck they call “Big Pinky” — it’s pink — to cater to every ice cream need.

• Em’s Ice Cream in Park Hill is getting ready to launch a second location in Wheat Ridge at 26th and Kipling.

• Scrumptious can be discovered a bit further north in Olde Town Arvada. According to its website, the business makes all of their ice cream in-house.

• Inside Scoop in Littleton, with another location on Platte Street, serves 20 flavors that are homemade daily and go perfectly with a handcrafted waffle cone, which they also make fresh.

If your favorite didn’t make the list, don’t fret. But feel free to drop us a line about what makes it great, and we’ll update the web version of this story to keep the metro area’s ice cream addicts up to date on all of the news they need to know.

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Local teen fights eating disorder out of state No local care options available for youth

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When the COVID-19 pandemic pushed schools to around the country to cancel in-person classes, Emma Warford was 15 years old, an active athlete, a good student and functioning well.

However, as days turned to weeks and weeks to months, Warford said she began worrying about her weight while sitting at home in quarantine. The then-sophomore started counting calories, admitting she became obsessed with her food intake.

Even after school returned to in-class learning, Warford said she continued to latch onto her caloriecounting habit, calling it her “coping mechanism” for stress.

In 2021, Warford, who lives in both Highlands Ranch and Centennial, said she went to see her regular-care physician who took notice of her weight loss.

“My doctor noticed that I had completely fallen off my growth chart,” the now 17-year-old said. “They tried to get me some therapy and a nutritionist to work with.”

When asked how much weight she lost, a choked-up Warford said more than 40 pounds.

Warford was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, an eating disor-

der characterized by an abnormally low body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight and a distorted perception of weight. According to the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, or CDC, an anorexic teen will skip meals, eat small portions, become obsessed with counting calories, or, in some cases, starve themselves.

During the pandemic, health organizations across the U.S. sounded the alarm in rising cases of youth and teens being admitted into emergency rooms with mental health issues, including eating disorders.

According to a CDC report, between 2020 and 2021, emergency room visits for teens with mental health issues increased by 24%.

The CDC reported that female teens between the ages of 12 and 17 were primarily seen in emergency rooms due to complications caused by an eating disorder.

Zach Zaslow, the Children’s Hospital Colorado director of government relations, said mental health and eating disorder cases for youth and teens were already on the rise in the United States. When the pandemic hit in 2020, it exacerbated the issues to crisis levels.

In 2021, after the general therapy and working with a nutritionist did not work, Warford’s condition became worse, leading her to a visit at Children’s Hospital Colorado where her heart rate was around 29.

The normal heart rate for a teenager is between 60 and 100 beats per minute.

Children’s Hospital doctors said outpatient treatment was not going to help Warford get better, telling her mother, Christine Hendrickson, that she needed to be admitted to a facility that specializes in treating adolescents with anorexia.

An overwhelmed system Once doctors emphasized that Warford needed extensive treatment, Hendrickson said the real struggle began. With her daughter sick, Hendrickson described a medical care system that diagnosed her daughter but then left her in the wind trying to figure out what to do.

In Colorado, mental health has reached crisis levels, causing care facilities to be full and parents and families struggling to find a place to seek treatment for their youth

and teens.

Hendrickson said when she was told the eating disorder clinic in Colorado was full, she started calling other states, getting on waitlists, trying to use the internet to educate herself and trying to understand a system where her daughter was not getting the help she needed.

Eventually, Hendrickson found her daughter a spot at a facility in Washington. With no other choice, Hendrickson said Warford needed immediate treatment and they had no other choice except to send her out of state.

Hendrickson said the decision was tough but had to be done. She said her employer was understanding and worked with her in taking time off.

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his is the month each year where we celebrate our freedom. The month where we should be giving thanks to the heroes in our community.

Early in my career, many years FROM THE ago, our newspaper did a special section calling “Hometown Heroes.”

EDITOR I always looked forward to this section because we uncovered some extraordinary stories about people living among us as neighbors.

I am a true believer in paying respects and honoring our veterans and the people currently serving in the U.S. military. What they do and are trained to do is extraordinary.

However, I also value what many Thelma Grimes of our residents do here at home.

For them, this column is dedicated to you because are you are the epitome of what America could and should stand for every day.

In this column, I want to say thank you to the volunteers who work tirelessly to help veterans. Whenever I take my dad to the VA — they are always there with a smile and ready to get us wherever we are trying to go.

Beyond the VA, we have organizations such as the VFW and American Legion throughout our communities. These groups quietly do great work every year.

They hold ceremonies, honor members of our community and hand out scholarships to our youth.

Speaking of scholarships, it is mind-boggling how much small organizations step up year after year to hand our graduating high school seniors a check.

Take groups such as the Englewood Rotary Club. This group handed out $10,000. Not a small amount — and their work, while not front and center, is important.

To the volunteers of organizations who every day wake up to prepare food boxes for our community members in need — you are heroes. You are appreciated.

To the volunteers who join boards, clubs and organizations to battle child abuse — you are appreciated.

To the volunteers who are called in when police are trying to help a victim of a crime — you are appreciated. Many of you are victims yourselves and understand what someone is going through. The courage it takes to set aside your pain to help another deal with theirs is incredible.

To the volunteers who work tirelessly to help women out of domestic abuse — we appreciate you. This is no easy task and you all work hard.

To organizations who help refugees fleeing their home countries to find peace in America — we appreciate you. Many of you open your homes, wallets and time just to help a stranger feel welcome.

To organizations dedicated to making an effort to help young transgenders, people coming out as gay — to the therapy, services and support you all tirelessly provide — we appreciate you.

The space in this column is not big enough to cover how many groups and organizations who do amazing things every day — know you are appreciated.

If you are reading this column and know of an organization or individual we should recognize as community heroes, please let us know. Writing about those doing good work is a priority for me as an editor.

Write me at tgrimes@coloradocommunitymedia.com Thelma Grimes is the south metro editor for Colorado Community Media.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Home visits improve kids’ lives As an educator, I know how important a child’s early years are. Those crucial years are the most important in ensuring children are set up for success in school and in life.

Throughout my career, I have seen that young children who receive quality early education and care have a strong emotional and academic foundation that serves them well in school.

But, not all children and families have the necessary supports to provide their children with what they need to thrive during the early years. That’s why the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) is so vital. This program has a proven track record, and the benefits are far reaching: children who receive voluntary home visits have better health, education, and

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Unfortunately, funding for MIECHV ends in September. Congress must urgently reauthorize MIECHV to ensure families keep getting the support they need, and meet growing demand for Home Visiting. Estimates show MIECHV has reached less than 5% of eligible families.

Families across Colorado and the United States need the support MIECHV offers.

Join me and Save the Children Action Network in urging Congress to increase funding for MIECHV. All children — no matter their socio-economic background — deserve the best possible start in life. And, home visiting helps to ensure they receive just that.

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We are not finished yet WINNING WORDS

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he five most sought-after words in amateur golf are, “That’s good, pick it up.”

We say that to our playing partner when the putt that is left is considered short enough to call it “good.” Sometimes the length of the putt left to make comes into question, especially when someone is not playing so well that day and their friends show a little mercy on them. Luckily, I have been the one receiving that mercy

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There are times when the player actually needing to make the putt decides that they have had enough already and do one of two things: They either pick it up themselves or they take a casual approach and putt it toward the hole, indicating that he or she felt that it was good and the last attempt at the putt was close enough for the gimme.

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State missed out on $2.8 million of revenue at campsites Audit reveals mismanagement in Colorado Parks and Wildlife

BY WILL TAYLOR COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s alleged mismanagement of campsite reservations last year cost $2.8 million in lost potential revenue, according to a state audit.

CPW is a branch of the Department of Natural Resources and is tasked with balancing conservation with the recreational needs of the state. The organization oversees more than 4,200 campsites across Colorado.

According to the audit, CPW collected $14.7 million in revenue from campsite reservations in 2021, but could have collected $2.8 million more if it weren’t for unnecessary site closures, refunds, and sub-standard fee charges.

The audit states that funding shortfalls for parks could reach $11 million annually by 2025 unless changes are made. The revenue lost

NORTON FROM PAGE 10

There may be gimmes in amateur golf or even in the PGA during match play, but when it comes to life, most times we aren’t finished yet. We still have work to do, projects to finish, contributions to make, our family and friends to love. No, we are still a long way from being finished yet. No matter where we started, the detours we have taken, the long roads we have journeyed, and even the many mistakes we have made, there is still time to get it right and finish what was once started by us, in us, or for us.

There’s a great song by Brandon Heath called “Wait and See.” And in this song, he sings the lyrics, “He’s not finished with me yet,” as he refers to God’s plan and purpose for his life. And if we listen to the song or even just find the lyrics, I encourage us to reflect on what those lyrics could mean in our own life. I remember speaking with my great aunt over the past few years as she was approaching 90, and she would say that she wished somedays that the Lord would just take her. And I would remind her that, “He’s not finished with you yet.”

My great aunt was living in an assisted living facility, and really didn’t have a lot of mobility left in her tired legs.

As residents came and went, she became saddened by their departure. It was during one of those calls where she just wanted to go to heaven and be with my great uncle. So, I said it to her again, “He’s not finished with you yet.”

last year at campsites would make up more than a quarter of the annual funding shortfalls.

This has led to an increase to state park entrance fees as well as in-state hunting and fishing licenses.

Other notable findings in the audit include: • 136,517 reservations were booked for sub-standard nightly fees. This led to a loss in over $835,000. A lack of documentation made it impossible for auditors to determine if the price reductions were legitimate.

Regional managers are able to approve a park’s request to reduce reservation fees up to 50 percent to encourage occupancy and increase use.

• Thirty-six percent of campsites were closed for at least one day between January 1 and September 7. These site closures could have brought in up to $1.9 million in additional revenue. Park managers said that campsites can be closed so that they can be used by CPW staff and park volunteers while they are working. Some managers said that there is a risk that closed campsites are misused to benefit friends and family of park staff.

• CPW refunded about $12,500 for

During our call the following week, my great aunt’s tonality was one of optimism and happiness. A new resident had moved in, and she didn’t have any family left to visit her. My great aunt befriended her and even though struggled with her own mobility, she made it a point to spend time and listen to her new friend’s life story and journey.

They went to the dining hall together, and each time I would call her, she would tell me more about her new friend and the life she led.

My great aunt and uncle lived with awesome faith and purpose. He served our country for 20 years in the Air Force and had been stationed around the world at different times. Most times she moved with him and supported him. She felt serving God and her husband was her greatest purpose. And now, nearing 90, she found a new purpose. It might seem like a small purpose compared to what is happening in the world, but at nearly 90 years of age, “He wasn’t finished with her yet.”

That’s where we come in.

“That’s good, pick it up,” may work in golf, but we are not finished yet. And whether big or small, we all have something positive to contribute to this world, to our community, and to our family and friends. I would love to hear what you still have to do at mnorton@xinnix.com, and when we realize there is plenty more to do, it really will be a better than good life.

Michael Norton is the grateful president of XINNIX, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

canceled reservations for reasons that did not require a refund. CPW did not limit staff’s discretion when entering refunds, and a lack of documentation meant that the legitimacy of over 850 additional refunds could not be determined.

Based on their findings, auditors made six recommendations for CPW going forward. These include better documentation for why sites have been closed, more training for staff using the reservation system and an increase in monitoring of reservation data to identify risk of fraud or abuse.

CPW agreed with all six recommendations made in the audit.

The agency declined an inter-

view but said in an email that the organization is working to implement the recommendations made in the audit. They said site closures are an important tool for park management, but they acknowledged the organization needs better “processes and procedures to document and approve campsite closures for a clearly defined reason.”

CPW plans to start implementing changes based on the audit’s findings this December.

This story is from Colorado Public Radio, a nonprofit news source. Used by permission. For more, and to support CPR News, visit cpr.org.

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“It was really a huge struggle to balance it all,” the mother of three said. “You know as a parent you are making mistakes and will continue to make mistakes. There really are no resources or advocacy for families like us. You are left dealing with a system you do not know all on your own. It was hard to get clear information. You are really on your own and you are lost.”

Zaslow said Hendrickson is not alone.

“COVID turned on eating disorders, but kids and families were being told to turn off mental health,” he said. “We (as a system) have to really look at how we do things. The challenges (Hendrickson) has had to go through with care navigation and work on her own should not happen. If we had a cohesive system to help with mental health, families wouldn’t be out there doing this alone.”

Hendrickson said it was hard to drive her teenage daughter up to a strange facility in another state and leave her, but she knew it was the right choice.

Today, now recovering, Warford said treatment was hard but knows there is no way she could have overcome her worst days at home with her mom.

“If my mom had made me do the things they did, it would have ruined our relationship,” Warford said. “There was nothing my family members or a therapist could do for me then. Now I am physically better, but I still have an eating disorder.

Treatment was what I needed.”

Pushing for change As Warford has returned to a routine life and sticks to her treatment plan to avoid a relapse, she has teamed up with children’s hospital to do more.

Warford, who will be a senior in high school this fall, is now taking aim at state and federal lawmakers.

The teenager said her goal is to put a face to the struggles this country is facing in helping young people dealing with mental illness.

In June, Warford, along with officials from Children’s Hospital Colorado, took their cause to Washington, speaking directly with lawmakers from Colorado and all over the U.S. about what her family dealt with in trying to get her treatment.

Hendrickson said in speaking to the public and to lawmakers, she wants to stress that in this country, “just because someone looks good on the outside – we do not know what is going on on the inside. We need compassion and help.”

Zaslow said the courage Warford has shown in standing up and putting a face to not only eating disorder awareness, but also to show lawmakers that real people are hurt by an outdated system, is impressive.

“She is part of important, meaningful steps to create change,” he said. “(Lawmakers) want to do the right thing but get confused and bogged down in legislative text. Having a real human being say this is the state of my world is huge. They too have children.”

With Children’s Hospital Colorado pushing for change at the state level and the Children’s Hospital Association pushing at the federal level, Zaslow said he believes change is starting to take shape nationwide.

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Unaffiliated voters cast most-ever ballots in GOP primaries In some counties, unaffiliated voters cast more than half of the ballots

BY JESSE PAUL AND MARVIS GUTIERREZ THE COLORADO SUN

Unaffiliated voters in Colorado, who make up 45% of the state’s electorate, have been able to cast ballots in partisan primaries for three election cycles.

But they have never voted in a Republican primary as they did in 2022.

More than 231,000 unaffiliated voters cast Republican primary ballots this year, about 100,000 more than chose to vote in the GOP primary in 2020 and 130,000 more than voted in the 2018 GOP primary.

Ben Engen, a conservative political strategist, said the script flipped this year from 2018.

Engen said that could be an indication that unaffiliated voters are leaning toward GOP candidates heading into November. “We all know how Republicans fared among unaffiliated voters and in the elections of 2018,” he said.

Ian Silverii, a Democratic political strategist whose wife, state Sen. Brittany Pettersen, is running in the 7th Congressional District, disagrees with Engen’s analysis.

Silverii points out there were no

contested statewide Democratic primaries this year, while there were fierce battles for the Republican nominations for U.S. Senate, governor and secretary of state.

Simply put, the GOP primaries were more competitive, and that could be why so many more unaffiliated voters decided to cast Republican primary ballots this year.

“There’s no evidence at all that primary votes with an uncontested Democratic ballot and an almost completely contested Republican ballot will have any bearing on the general election whatsoever,” he said.

The number of unaffiliated ballots cast for Republicans is expected to rise as more ballots are processed in the coming days.

There were about 40,000 unaffiliated ballots across the state that still had to be tabulated as of Friday morning, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.

Meanwhile, it looks like 2022 may be the year with the lowest number of Democratic primary ballots cast by unaffiliated voters.

Only about 161,000 unaffiliated voters’ ballots processed through Friday morning were cast in the Democratic primary. The previous low was in 2018, the first year unaffiliated voters could cast ballots in partisan primaries, when 179,742 voted Democratic ballots.

In some counties, unaffiliated voters cast more than half of all GOP primary ballots Unaffiliated voters were the deciding factor in some counties’ GOP primaries, accounting for

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contest in the 3rd Congressional District. More than 128,000 ballots were cast in the race in which Boebert easily fended off Coram.

The 4th District GOP contest came in second, with more than 120,000 ballots cast. In that race, U.S. Rep. Ken Buck secured a big victory over Bob Lewis, an Elbert County real estate broker.

Interestingly enough, the Republican primary with the fewest ballots cast was in the new, highly competitive 8th Congressional District. Roughly 57,000 ballots were cast in that race.

The 8th District isn’t a ruby red district like the 3rd and the 4th districts, so there were fewer Republicans voting in the primary race.

The Colorado Sun has heard from some voters in the 8th District who were unaware they live in a new battleground. The district also has the fewest number of registered voters of all eight congressional districts in Colorado.

The low number is further indication that the 8th District general election race will likely hinge on turnout. There is expect to be a very big voter registration and getout-the-vote push in the district over the summer and in the fall.

more than half of all the Republican primary votes cast.

San Miguel County, for instance, had the highest percentage of Republican primary ballots cast by unaffiliated voters, at 70%. Of the 1,191 GOP primary votes cast this year in the county, 836 were cast by unaffiliated voters.

Ouray County came in second at 60% of the GOP primary votes being cast by unaffiliated voters, while Pitkin and Gunnison counties weren’t far behind, at 59% each..

All of those counties are in the 3rd Congressional District, where there was a loosely organized effort to get Democrats to switch their voter affiliation to unaffiliated to cast ballots in the Republican primary for state Sen. Don Coram as part of an unsuccessful effort to block U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert from winning a second term.

In Denver, a liberal stronghold,48% of all the Republican ballots cast were cast by unaffiliated voters.

Even Boulder County, considered the most reliably Democratic part of Colorado, saw a large portion of its unaffiliated voter electorate — 44% — cast ballots in the Republican primaries.

Turnout was uneven in congressional districts A total of 1,204,528 ballots were cast in this year’s primaries, resulting in a 32% turnout among active, registered voters.

The congressional primary this year with the largest number of ballots cast was the Republican

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COLORADO’S POWER PATHWAY New transmission line route options identified in eastern Elbert County and western Lincoln County

Visit ColoradosPowerPathway.com for more information and to view an interactive Segment 5 Eastern Review Area map.

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