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U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) lost her bid for reelection — a stunning defeat for one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent allies in Congress, whose campaign raised unfounded allegations of voting irregularities as she trailed her Democratic challenger.
“Colorado’s elections are safe, secure and accurate – and every voter’s voice will be heard,” Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) said in a statement.
The data shows how Trump’s map-rigging scheme backfired spectacularly, motivating Democratic voters to turn out in volumes.
Colorado voters rejected proposed restrictions on mid-decade partisan redistricting, maintaining state Democrats’ ability to respond to the nationwide redistricting war.
Boebert’s campaign attorney is Scott Gessler, Colorado’s former secretary of state and an election denier who has echoed Trump’s debunked claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
Nearly 10,000 voters across three metro Atlanta counties are in danger of disenfranchisement due to mail ballot delays.
Early voting starts this week across Colorado, where an election denier is running to oversee state elections as voters weigh a Republican-backed attempt to heighten ID requirements for casting a ballot.
“We’re glad that the Supreme Court did what was right, but there was also a period where real damage was done in the space of voter confusion, with people losing faith in the process,” said Ben Hovland, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former commissioner of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, at a press briefing Tuesday.
It aims to counter what one group calls “an intentional climate of fear and intimidation,” that threatens to chill participation among minority voters.
More than 51 million mail ballots will be sent to voters in the coming weeks just from the District of Columbia and the two dozen states that are challenging the Trump administration’s 11th-hour attack on mail voting.
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