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Group tied to Colorado election overhaul drops $1 million in last-minute primary spending (www.denverpost.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The group is backed by Kent Thiry, the Denver-based former CEO of the dialysis giant DaVita who’s supporting a ballot measure to overhaul the state’s election process. In a statement to The Denver Post on Saturday morning, Thiry wrote that it was “time for many of us to stand up for the majority in the middle. We are supporting responsible candidates in each party who believe in civil and bipartisan behavior, and who believe they represent all the voters in their districts.”

The new spending committee shares a name, registered agent and phone number with Let Colorado Vote, which is supporting an effort to put a sweeping overhaul of the state’s election system in front of voters in November.

If placed on the ballot and passed, the proposed overhaul would institute a ranked-choice voting system here, in which voters pick four candidates from a primary field to send to a general election. Let Colorado Vote has also recently been critical of Colorado lawmakers for recently inserting a late amendment into an election bill in order to slow any future switch to ranked-choice voting.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

I can’t help but think that this whole framing and construction is slanted as hard as it can possibly be to make this sound like a bad thing

The combination of “time for many of us to stand up for the majority in the middle” to make people on the left suspicious, along with framing in terms of a wealthy donor “dropping” an honestly not all that large amount of money into “an election already awash” with dark money and “outside spending” to make people on the right suspicious, is honestly very well done.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah i hate this guy, saw the piece on him by John Oliver. But i don't see how he gains by backing this. Perhaps this is his broken clock time to be right?

Colorado already allows unaffiliated s to vote in all primaries iirc. Maybe this could be leveraged against the public in some way i cannot see, but that's moot imo since our current system is rigged to hell already