CO GOP Seeks To Block Independent Primary Voters

The Colorado Sun reports:

The Colorado GOP’s state central committee is scheduled next month to consider a change to the party’s bylaws that would make it easier for Republicans to block unaffiliated voters from participating in their primaries, a major objective of the far right.

A GOP effort to block unaffiliated voters from the 2022 primaries was soundly rejected by the Republican state central committee. A subsequent federal lawsuit also failed.

But far-right Republicans are still pushing to prevent unaffiliated voters — who make up the largest share of Colorado’s electorate — from weighing in on GOP primaries. Proponents of opting out are worried that Democrats are registered as unaffiliated voters and casting ballots for weaker candidates in GOP primaries.

Read the full article.

Colorado GOP chairman Dave Williams [photo] won the post earlier this year with the backing of  local anti-vax groups.

He first appeared on JMG in 2018 when he declared that immigrants are inherently violent.

In 2017, he authored a vague bill that would have made it a felony to “render assistance to illegal aliens.”

My April 2022 report on his lawsuit to have “Let’s Go Brandon” listed by his name on the ballot is here.

Of note, Williams was endorsed by indicted former county clerk Tina Peters after she failed to advance in the third round of balloting. Peters faces seven felony charges and was convicted in February of a misdemeanor after resisting arrest.

Proposed change to Colorado GOP bylaws would make it easier to block unaffiliated voters from Republican primaries https://t.co/BNjGeQdOxf

— The Colorado Sun (@ColoradoSun) July 10, 2023