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VOLUME 36 • NUMBER 27 • MAY 24, 2018
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Chief in waiting? GV Metro Public Safety Event draws fans of all ages
Jack Joswick, the nephew of GV police officer Sarah Joswick, arrived in his police uniform for the Metro Public Safety Event held in the GV City Hall parking lot May 19. For more on the event see page 26.
Preparing to vote in the June primary — everyone can participate Proposition 108 was an initiated state statute to allow unaffiliated electors to vote in the primary election of a major political party without registering with that party. It passed on Nov. 8, 2016, 53 percent to 47 percent, with 2.6 million total votes cast statewide. This system is called a semi-closed, or hybrid primary. Coloradans can register to vote, check their voting status, affiliate or unaffiliate with po-
litical parties, or change their party registration instantly by logging on to govotecolorado. com. May 29 is the last day for voters who are registered with a political party to change or withdraw their affiliation if they wish to vote in a different party’s primary. Mail ballots will be sent out between June 4 and June 8. Registered voters who are declared Democrats or Republicans will receive their party’s primary ballot only. Those who have not expressed a preference for either major party by
May 29 will receive both the Democratic and Republican primary ballots. Voters should return only one of the ballots. If both ballots are cast, neither will count. New voters can still receive a mail ballot if they register by June 18, which is also the date by which in-person voting locations will be open and available. Colorado requires voters to show a valid ID when they appear to vote in person. Ballots can be mailed or delivered, without postage, to designated drop-off locations. They must
be received by 7 p.m. on June 26. There are 25 different locations listed on county clerk Matt Crane’s arapahoevotes. com website that is available 24 hours a day. Locations for dropping off ballots in other areas can be found on local county clerks’ websites statewide. For statewide offices, both the Republicans and Democrats have primaries for governor and treasurer. The Democrats also have a primary in the state attorney general race and U.S. congressional districts one and six. All other statewide and
national offices that will be decided by voters in Arapahoe County in November have only one candidate from each of the major parties. Running for governor in the Republican primary are former Parker mayor Greg Lopez (lopezforgovernor.com), former state representative Victor Mitchell (vic4gov.com), businessman Doug Robinson (dougforcolorado.com), and state treasurer Walker Stapleton (stapletonforcolorado.com).
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