Three voters have sued the Adams County clerk and recorder and asked a federal judge to stop a November ballot question about whether to extend the term limit of District Attorney Don Quick.
The 17th Judicial District attorney’s office encompasses Adams and Broomfield counties, but the ballot is not being distributed to voters in Broomfield at the same time.
The plaintiffs, Mary Dambman, Kevin Kreeger and Edward Snyder are seeking a temporary restraining order against distribution of the ballots during a hearing today before U.S. District Judge Philip A. Brimmer.
Kreeger and Snyder, who live in Broomfield County, claim they will be deprived of a vote concerning Quick’s election in their political subdivision.
Dambman lives in Adams County, but the lawsuit says her vote won’t really count if voters in neighboring Broomfield are not participating.
Adams County Attorney Hal Warren said the Board of Commissioners has legal authority to put the question on the ballots without waiting on Broomfield.
However, Warren said that regardless of the results in Adams County, the issue on the district attorney’s term limit won’t be decided until the people of Broomfield have voted in their own election.
