Colorado GOP gets partial win in challenge to semi-open primaries

DENVER — A federal court in Colorado sided with the state’s Republican party, ruling that a state proposition “requiring that ‘at least three-fourths of the total membership of the party’s state central committee votes to use the assembly or convention nomination process’ before a major party can opt for an assembly or convention nomination process is unconstitutional.” This may make it easier for the Colorado GOP to keep the state’s 1.8 million unaffiliated voters from participating in Republican primaries.