{"id":2454814,"date":"2020-02-20T16:26:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T23:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=321279"},"modified":"2020-02-20T16:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T23:26:03","slug":"colorado-has-both-a-caucus-and-a-primary-next-month-heres-how-they-will-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/colorado-has-both-a-caucus-and-a-primary-next-month-heres-how-they-will-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado has both a caucus and a primary next month. Here\u2019s how they will work."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/08\/Primary-gpi-052816.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Political caucuses have come under renewed criticism since the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/elections\/presidential\/caucus\/2020\/02\/12\/wake-botched-caucus-head-iowa-democratic-party-resigned\/4741566002\/\">chaotic Democratic caucuses in Iowa<\/a>&nbsp;earlier this month, but Coloradans have no reason for concern, state party and election leaders say.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic and GOP caucus meetings are set to take place across Colorado on March 7, but the process will be much different than in Iowa, where it took days to sort out the results on the Democratic side. For one thing, caucus-goers here won\u2019t be choosing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/12\/09\/colorado-presidential-primary-candidates-super-tuesday\/\">presidential nominees<\/a>. Registered&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/02\/10\/colorado-presidential-primary-2020-super-tuesday\/\">voters will do that via ballots<\/a>&nbsp;that are already being sent out.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the parties won\u2019t be using an app to report caucus results \u2014 technology that took the blame for the failures in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really prioritize cyber-security in all of our election support systems,\u201d Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/02\/16\/colorado-caucus-presidential-primary-super-tuesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Denver Post. (opens in a new tab)\">The Denver Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/election\/colorado-has-both-a-caucus-and-a-primary-next-month-heres-how-they-will-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political caucuses have come under renewed criticism since the&nbsp;chaotic Democratic caucuses in Iowa&nbsp;earlier this month, but Coloradans have no reason for concern, state party and election leaders say. Democratic and GOP caucus meetings are set to take place across Colorado on March 7, but the process will be much different than in Iowa, where it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 14:30:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}