A Move to Close Colorado's 2018 Republican Primaries to Unaffiliated Voters was Stopped Saturday after a Majority of the Party Leaders Voted Against the Proposal during a Central Committee Meeting.

Voters Approved Proposition 108 in 2016, overhauling how Major-Party Candidates are Selected in Colorado and allowing the State’s 1.4 Million Unaffiliated Voters to Cast Ballots in either the Republican or Democratic Primaries.

But a Caveat allowed Political Parties to Opt-Out by a 75% Vote of its Entire Central Committee. The Party did not have enough Members present to reach that Percentage, making the move dead before the Votes had been Cast, Colorado Republican Party spokesman Daniel Cole said.

Regardless, those Present Voted and Opt-Out Proponents only garnered 33% of the Vote, Cole said. The remaining 67% Voted to keep the Primaries Open.

Had the Proposal Passed, the Republican Party would have left Statewide Office Nominations to Party Insiders. Instead, the Republican Candidate will receive the Party’s Nomination by Winning the most Votes in the June 26th Primary.

The move to Close the Primaries could technically come up again before June 26th but Cole said that won’t happen.

A Motion to Sue to Overturn Proposition 108 also went down by the same margin, Cole said.

I would rather see an Open Primary. But if a Party Opens its Primary to Non-Members, you must handle a Party's Right of Association, and to do that there should be two Ballots. One for Party Members that includes Candidates for County Committee, State Committee, Party Officials, and Presidential Electors. The other Ballot is for Non-Members that does not have Party Elections.









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