Hillary Hall is likely to be running the Boulder County election systems she was previously tapped to reform, after beating incumbent Clerk and Recorder Linda Salas in the Democratic primary Tuesday.
Hall, a former county party chairwoman, served on an elections review committee after the 2004 general election votes took three days to count.
Hall collected 59 percent of the vote, 8,395, to Salas’ 5,824 votes, or 41 percent. No Republican is on the November ballot.
In other contended races, incumbent Elbert County Sheriff Bill Frangis beat former Sheriff Jack Knous in the GOP primary.
Frangis collected 881 votes; Knous, 795; and John Scott, 577. There will be no runoff. Democrats have no candidate for sheriff, but Frangis will face unaffiliated candidate Brian Weiss in November.
“I’m looking forward to continuing to build a professional agency,” Frangis said Wednesday.
In Weld County, write-in County Commission candidate Haiko Eichler, whose campaign stemmed from a spat over a mobile home on his Berthoud ranch, lost to incumbent Doug Rademacher in District 2. Rademacher got 3,209 votes, or 92.3 percent, to Eichler’s 268 votes. The seat is unopposed by Democrats in November.
