Automatic recount likely in Colorado House District 58 GOP primary
Jul 8, 2024 Updated Jul 8, 2024
from The Denver Gazette
LKY NOTE: As of right now, Larry Don has won by 3 votes!
Photo: Larry Don Suckla
With just a handful of votes now separating Colorado House District 58 Republican Primary candidates Larry Don Suckla and J. Mark Roeber, the Colorado Secretary of State will most likely order an automatic recount of the 12,971 votes.
“As it stands, the vote differential is three votes or 0.046%,” Colorado Secretary of State Communications Director Jack Todd confirmed by email.
“We are within that threshold,” Todd said. “The deadline for Secretary (Jena) Griswold to order a mandatory recount is July 19.”
Under Colorado law, a recount is mandatory if the margin between the two top-finishers is 0.5% or less of the leading candidate's vote total.
As of Monday, the Secretary of State’s website showed Roeber, a former Delta County commissioner, holding 6,484 votes (49.99%) and former Montezuma County Commissioner Suckla at 6,487 votes (50.01%).
“We won by three votes,” Sukla announced on his Facebook page. “You have no idea how much I appreciate everybody that voted for me.”
Let Colorado Vote Action, a state-level super-PAC that has ties to former DaVita CEO and millionaire Kent Thiry, had contributed to an independent expenditure committee that benefitted Roeber’s primary campaign. Let Colorado Vote gave almost $1 million a week before the primary election.
Roeber's Facebook page or his website neither acknowledged nor offered comment on the close June 25 primary race.
The winner, once confirmed by the Secretary of State, will face Democratic HD 58 candidate Kathleen Curry in November.
The seat is currently held by Rep. Marc Catlin who is running for the state Senate in District 5.
Kommentare