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Week of October 20, 2022
ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO
A publication of
Northglenn-ThorntonSentinel.com
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VOLUME 59 | ISSUE 11
Westminster increases water rates by 4% for 2023 BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Westminster voted 5-2 to increase water rates by 4% on Oct. 10, a measure Councilor David DeMott said seemed fair. DeMott commended city staff for their work on finding the
right balance to fund a new water treatment plant and making sure residents can pay their bills. “The question for me always was ‘is it balanced in a way that people can assume those increases?’” he said. SEE WATER, P3
Election 2022: How secure is the vote? BY VIGNESH RAMACHANDRAN COLORADO NEWS COLLABORTIVE
Colorado is known for its mail-in-ballot system that some election experts have called the “gold standard” in the nation. But with unfounded claims of massive voter fraud rampant, some state residents remain concerned about whether their vote will get counted. The Colorado News Collaborative is speaking with nonpartisan election experts to help the public understand more about the integrity of the vote. One of them, M.V. (Trey) Hood III, is a professor of political science at the University of Georgia. His state has been the epicenter of high-profile claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, which have been found false. This Q&A has been edited for clarity and length. Roscoe the standard poodle hops up to greet Tyler Chic. Chic, atop his stilts and dressed as the children’s book character Waldo, was attending the Mallowen celebration, a safe trickor-treat event at Westminster’s Orchard Town Centre Oct. 15. Roscoe belongs to Michelle PHOTO BY SCOTT TAYLOR Antonio of Westminster.
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How easy is it for someone to mess with the vote? Certainly every state has a lot of things that have been put in place
to prevent voter fraud, so a lot of safeguards are in place. It’s not necessarily easy to commit voter fraud. It does happen — it’s pretty episodic and rare, though. But, the fact that it does happen some – that’s what gets into the news and that’s sort of what reinforces the belief that it’s just completely rampant. [Editor’s note: In Colorado, the conservative-leaning Heritage Foundation has documented 16 cases of voter fraud in the entire state since 2005.] SEE ELECTION, P6
PATHS TO ART
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