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Dolores County Sheriff Don Wilson never expected to use Colorado’s red flag law when it was passed in 2019. He thought the law made it too easy to take a person’s guns away. The statute allows law enforcement officers or private citizens to petition a county court to confiscate firearms temporarily from people who pose an imminent threat to themselves or others. “All it is is one person’s word against another,” said Wilson, whose sparsely populated territory is in southwestern Colorado near the Utah border. Then, in August 2020, a Dove Creek man threatening to kill his neighbors and himself pointed a semi-automatic rifle at a deputy.

Election results will be reported by Colorado’s Secretary of State starting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. This results page will be updated throughout the night. READ MORE: Click here to see more coverage on politics in Colorado To stay up-to-date on Colorado’s political scene, the upcoming 2022 November election and more, subscribe to our newsletter, The Spot. Related Articles Politics | Polls are open for Colorado’s 2022 primary election: Here is what you need to know Politics | Democrats appear to be helping Colorado election deniers win primaries.

Polling places across the state are now open for the final day of voting in Colorado’s 2022 primary election. As of 11:45 a.m., 871,674 ballots had been cast in Colorado, according to the secretary of state’s office. Of those, just 6,879 were cast in person at one of the state’s 130 voting centers. There are more than 3.7 million eligible voters in today’s election.

Denver residents accustomed to trash trucks coming to empty their black bins of refuse every week without ever having to see a bill for that service may want to revisit their budgets. The City Council voted 8-5 on Monday night to overhaul Denver’s solid waste collection program, making weekly recycling and composting free but setting up monthly fees for collections of trash headed to the landfill. The so-called “pay-as-you-throw” trash format will mean that starting next year residents of single-family homes and apartment buildings of seven or fewer units will pay between $9 and $21 per month for trash pickup depending on the size of their trash bins.

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Ross Douthat believes that right-wingers might not be able to consolidate their gains after the Dobbs decision. While the pro-life movement has won the right to legislate against abortion, it has not yet proven that it can do so in a way that can command durable majority support. Its weaknesses will not disappear in victory.