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The judge found that the GOP was unlikely to succeed in its constitutional challenge.
DENVER — A federal judge on Friday declined a request from the Colorado Republican Party to block unaffiliated voters from participating in its primary elections, finding the GOP was unlikely to succeed in its constitutional challenge to a 2016 ballot measure allowing for unaffiliateds to vote in major party primaries.
> Video above Jan. 25: Political analysts discuss allowing unaffiliated voters to participate in primaries.
After a two-day hearing last week, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Philip A. Brimmer concluded the GOP failed to show the passage of Proposition 108 nearly eight years ago had a measurable effect on Republican nominating contests since.
“At the hearing, the Party presented no evidence of crossover voting or any other evidence suggesting that unaffiliated voters or voters affiliated with rival parties might determine the Party’s nominee,” Brimmer wrote on Feb. 2. “The Party offered no evidence that unaffiliated voters changed the outcome of any specific primary races in 2018, 2020, or 2022.”
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