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Letter: Democrats open to working with all comers
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Jack Turner’s recent column equating Georgia’s new Jim Crow voting law to the challenges faced by unaffiliated candidates seeking office in Colorado is unfortunate. The Georgia law is a not-so-thinly-veiled effort to make it harder for citizens of color to vote. It continues more than four hundred years of oppression, degradation and denial of civic participation. In contrast, Unaffiliated Colorado citizens face no such opposition to casting their votes.
‘Unaffiliated’ Colorado redistricting commission applicants assailed for perceived biases
Voters approved a new redistricting system that would not give favor to either party, but that is being called into question. Author: Evan Wyloge (The Denver Gazette) Published: 9:13 AM MST February 6, 2021 Updated: 9:13 AM MST February 6, 2021
COLORADO, USA Before Colorado’s 2021 redistricting has even begun, allegations of partisan gamesmanship have bubbled up as the impartiality of dozens of applicants has been called into question.
In two letters, one from a bipartisan coalition of prominent Colorado politicians and political operatives and the other from the state Republican Party, some applicants who have applied to be on the state’s new independent citizens’ redistricting commission have been accused of hiding their partisan biases behind their party-unaffiliated voter registration.