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🧵 Early voting has begun in Colorado, and the outcome has important implications for the state’s democracy. An election denier is running to oversee state elections, and a GOP-backed attempt to heighten ID requirements for voting is on the ballot. Here’s what to know 👇

🪪 VOTER ID ON THE BALLOT: Voters will consider a ballot initiative that, if passed, would require them to write the last four digits of either their: 🔺 Social Security number 🔺 Driver’s license number 🔺 or Real ID number on the OUTSIDE of their mailed ballots.

🗳️ ELECTION DENIERS ON THE BALLOT: James Wiley, who promoted 2020 presidential-election conspiracies, is the Republican nominee for Colorado’s secretary of state – the office that leads election administration.

🗳️ Wiley is campaigning on a state elections overhaul that includes limiting mail voting, implementing stricter voter ID rules, ending electronic ballots, and periodically purging state voter rolls.