Colorado does not allow digital signatures for candidate petitions. That means every name on those sheets was written by hand, in person, by a registered Denver voter who stopped what they were doing to do it. There is no shortcut version of that, and there is no way to do it without people. Thank you.
Signing takes a minute. Carrying a petition means asking strangers for something on somebody else's behalf, in the heat, over and over, and being told no more often than yes. It is the hardest thing anyone volunteers for and the least visible. You know who you are, and so do we.
The sheets went to the Denver Clerk and Recorder, where every line was checked against the voter file: registration, address, whether the same person had already signed. Signatures that did not match were struck. On Monday, August 24, the Clerk issued the Notice of Sufficiency. The petition qualified.
Cynthia Diaz is on the ballot for Denver City Council, At-Large Seat B, in the special election on November 3, 2026. We said we would post the result here the moment it was official, whichever way it went. This is it.
Denver's Fair Elections Fund matches the first $50 from every Denver resident at 900 percent. Five dollars from you arrives as fifty. The campaign is asking 100 neighbors to do that by 3pm on Friday, September 4, and what counts is the number of people, not the size of the checks. If you signed, this is the same favor asked once more, and it takes about a minute.
The Santa Fe Ledger does not depend on an election. Two construction projects are tearing up the corridor through 2028, and every week we publish what that is costing the businesses trying to stay open through it. Being on the ballot changes nothing about that.