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Democratic governor of Colorado since 2019, overseeing state policy on taxation, utilities and other issues.
Colorado voters decide in November whether to swap a 39-year flat 4.4% income tax for six brackets topping out at 8.4% above $1 million. Only those earning over $500,000 would pay more, and how much depends partly on a rival measure on the same ballot.
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The governor's office raised an Iranian-backed campaign against drinking water systems and would not say whether the two Colorado utilities hit in late August were part of it. Both remain unnamed.
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Hochul's Siena lead has halved since June while her attorney general sits on 18 points. The New York office actually litigating prediction markets is the harder of the two for the industry to unseat.
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Registrar Clint Curtis says a contract keeps Tina Peters off county systems. He also says she would help direct his dozen staff, who have the logins.
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A registrar who was censured this month for threatening staff says he will make a convicted election-systems thief his deputy. The controls that would stop it are personnel controls.
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