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State Senate control still up in the air late Friday

All eyes remain on the Resolution Room at the Adams County Government Center in Brighton.

Storify: Saturday’s county assembly roundup

Some June 24 primary races are just now heating up, while others are nonexistent after Saturday's county assemblies.

Colorado residents grapple with threat of oil, gas drilling, ask Salazar...

Scores of residents in Colorado's North Fork Valley aren't nearly as keen about oil and gas drilling as the wide-eyed Democrats and Republicans who talk about tapping America's energy reserves.

Colo government watchdog group calls on Sheriff Darr to step down

In the wake of his conviction in U.S. District Court Thursday, Colorado Ethics Watch is calling on Adams County Sheriff Doug Darr to resign. A jury found Democrat Darr abused his authority in attempts to trash the law-enforcement career of his Republican opponent in the 2010 sheriff's election and prevent him from campaigning.

It’s a showdown between Steadman and Ragsdale to fill SD 31...

There will be a third and final round of voting between Pat Steadman and Ann Ragsdale in the Senate District 31 vacancy meeting to...

Adams County ‘quarantines’ machine that switched candidate’s vote

An electronic voting machine in Adams County repeatedly failed to accept a vote for a Democratic state Senate candidate — instead registering the vote for her Republican opponent — at an early voting site last week and has been removed from service, the Aurora Sentinel reports Wednesday. Adams County Clerk and Recorder Karen Long told the newspaper the error doesn't reflect wider problems in the county's voting systems, but the candidate said the incident could lead to a lawsuit.

Colorado election snafu roundup: Clerks resort to robocalls to fix bad...

The clock is ticking down until Colorado's big day. And with the John McCain campaign all but pulling out of the state as Barack Obama pushes forward, the result of the November election in Colorado may be coming into focus. Unfortunately, when it comes to election administration in Colorado, things are getting muddier and muddier by the day. In our election bungle roundup last week, we guided you through the week's most important news: national groups slamming Secretary of State Mike Coffman on his voter registration policy, Attorney General John Suthers backing Coffman in his recent voter purge, El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Bob Balink further disenfranchising student voters, and more. Read on to for the latest foul-ups: