The Long Ballot

Every voter in the City and County of Denver will vote on 56 to 58 matters in the November 2022 election: 2 federal offices (U.S. Senate and U.S. House), 7-8 partisan state offices, 29 judicial retention elections, 11 state ballot measures, 7 Denver ballot measures, and in some cases one non-partisan RTD director office.

There will be 6 more non-partisan positions for each Denver voters to consider in this spring: the Mayor, the Clerk and Recorder, the City Auditor, two city council members at large, and a district level city council member.

Thankfully, voters are spared non-partisan local school board and RTD district elections in this election cycle.

This ignores runoff elections in the municipal elections and primary elections and caucuses in the partisan races for the midterm elections.

Expecting voters to consider 62-64 different decisions in a six month period is unreasonable and reduces the quality of democratic participation. This should be reformed.