LetCoVote2016.com INCREASING PARTICIPATION IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS WHO WE ARE WHY IT MATTERS Let Colorado Vote 2016 is dedicated Freedom and independence are core to building consensus for policies to Colorado values. It’s not right to force ACTIVE VOTERS 2016 increase voter access, engagement voters who want to be independent to join a 37% of active voters political party just to have their voices heard. don’t get to vote in primary and participation in Colorado. We are elections in Colorado! pursuing two ballot measures in 2016: Since all voters pay for elections, it’s not fair to exclude more than 1 million Coloradans ✔ Initiative 98 from our primary elections. 31% 37% To open primary elections to Democrat Unaffiliated Colorado’s 1.3 million unaffiliated Roughly 1 in 5 Colorado voters in 2016 voters. picked candidates to run in November. 31% 1% In fact, turnout in primaries in Colorado Republican Other is so low, the winners tend to appeal ✔ Initiative 140 SOURCE: COLORADO SECRETARY OF STATE, MARCH 2016 to the extremes of each party. We need To restore Colorado’s presidential more people involved if we want the best primary election, last held in 2000. candidate options. WHAT WE KNOW Executive Committee A majority of states open their primaries to unaffiliated Don Childears, President/CEO, Colorado Bankers Association voters, yet Colorado clings to an antiquated system. Kelly Brough, President/CEO, Denver Metro Chamber ✔ Colorado leads the nation in the growth of John Hereford, President/CEO, Oak Leaf Energy Partners unaffiliated voters since 2008, and they now make up a plurality (37%) of active voters. Kent Thiry, Chairman & CEO, DaVita (Sources: nonpartisan group “Third Way”; Colorado Secretary of State) Endorsements ✔ Almost 50% of registered voters age 25 and under Gov. John W. Hickenlooper are unaffiliated, and nearly 47% of voters age 40 Former Gov. Bill Ritter and under are unaffiliated. (Secretary of State Former Gov. Bill Owens data) Governor Gov. Roy Romer ✔ Colorado has some of the highest general- Former Gov. Dick Lamm election turnouts in the nation, but primary turnout has declined from 31% of active voters in Former U.S. Sen. Mark Udall 2010 to just 21% in 2016. Former U.S. Sen. Hank Brown ✔ Caucuses limit participation. There are more than Colo. Springs Mayor John Suthers 3.6 million registered voters in Colorado, and just Former State Sen. Kiki Traylor 180,000 (5%) participated in 2016 caucuses. Former State Sen. Josh Penry State Rep. Dominick Moreno TO DONATE Former State Rep. Cheri Gerou Online Former Sate Rep. Christine Scanlan LetCoVote2016/donate Former State Republican party chair Don Bain Mail PO Box 6139, Denver, CO 80206 Former State Democratic party chair Howard Gelt MORE INFORMATION Contact Visit Monica Owens Beauprez, [email protected] LetCoVote2016.com LetCoVote2016.com or Hillary Shoun, [email protected] .