A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Colorado Republicans that sought to close primary elections to unaffiliated voters.
did not have the legal standing to do so. The plaintiffs, four current or former Republican candidates for office and a GOP party chair, sought to allow only party members to vote in primary elections, rather than keeping them open to unaffiliated voters, arguing that the current process violates their constitutional rights.
The lawsuit was not brought by the Colorado Republican Party, and the party cannot “litigate this case by proxy,” Kane wrote in a 32-page order in which he found the plaintiffs did not claim any personal injury and so could not bring the legal challenge. “Like Don Quixote, plaintiffs are self-appointed heroes, defending the rights of their party by going to battle against the allegedly insurmountable obstacle of a three-fourths majority that compels a form of diluted political speech,” Kane wrote. “They have overstepped their bounds.”
Kane found that the Colorado Republican Party already has a clear avenue for excluding unaffiliated voters from the primary process — by opting out of primary elections through a three-fourths vote of the Republicans’ state central committee. Nominees would then be chosen through caucus and assembly, an in-person process that would have involved only a small portion of all registered Republican voters.last fall, rejecting a push from the far-right members of the party.
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