Campaigns, elections and the people who represent Montezuma County.
Election 2026 Live results: Montezuma County, Cortez and Colorado racesUnofficial counts from the Secretary of State, updated as counties report.See the resultsThe Associated Press declared the Republican incumbent the winner Friday morning, three days after the election. Jeff Hurd leads Democrat Dwayne Romero by about 6,100 votes across the district and took 55 percent in Montezuma County.
Montezuma County questions 1A and 1B are both projected to fail, keeping term limits on four county offices and the county lodging tax at 2 percent. The Town of Mancos's sales tax question is now projected to pass. Cortez Question 2A still trailed, by 153 votes.
Democrat Rebecca Busic, who said she would be proud to lose over her support for the Valley Range solar project, trailed Republican Rodney Cox 57 percent to 43 percent in Montezuma County's latest count of unofficial results.
Unofficial results from the Colorado Secretary of State for every race and question on Montezuma County ballots, updated on this page as counties report.
Rebecca Busic would need more than three of every four unaffiliated votes to beat Republican Rodney Cox, a Cortez Current analysis of Tuesday morning's ballot returns and past results finds. Ballots are due by 7 p.m.
Montezuma County posted the notice twice on Monday morning, the day before Election Day and hours after an evacuation order covered blocks of Mancos. It asks voters to disregard earlier information about a possible change, without saying what that was.
About 7,500 ballots, nearly 38 percent of active voters, were in by Sunday night, about the same share as in 2022. That year, 45 percent of the county's ballots came in after that point.
About 24 percent of the county's 20,310 mail ballots were back as of Monday night. The office says anything posted from here may not arrive by the 7 p.m. Election Day deadline.
The Democratic candidate for county commissioner says opponents of the battery site are spreading misinformation. A neighboring business says it's being unfairly targeted. Republican Rodney Cox, who said last month he was "against everything" about the project, now says he won't decide until he sees the plan.
The measure on Montezuma County ballots would cut income tax for taxable income under $500,000 and raise it above that, for an estimated $2 billion a year. A second measure, Proposition 136, would cap the rate where it is.
A one-page guide recommending votes on 16 ballot measures, headed "Bruce's Position" and credited to Lighthouse Baptist pastor and city Planning and Zoning commissioner Bruce Burkett, drew a church-and-state debate in a local Facebook group Sunday. By 9:13 p.m. the post was no longer available. Burkett says the guide is his personal opinion as a citizen and a Christian.
Three weeks before Colorado votes on two transgender ballot measures, KSJD won't say who edits the one person behind much of its political coverage.
The city wants to raise the tax on hotel, motel and short-term rental stays from 2% to 6%. The ballot caps the first year's take at $900,000, and the city manager says the money is for tourism, downtown and the arts.
Propositions 134 and 135 would sort school sports teams by biological sex and ban certain surgeries on minors. Here is what each would do, who is for and against, and how to vote.
The city will answer questions about its November ballot question on hotel and short-term rental taxes at the Cortez Public Library on September 24 and October 6.
Ballots went out October 5. Here's what's on them, where to drop them off, and where to vote in person.
