Former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton submitted enough valid signatures to qualify for a spot on the primary ballot in the state’s Republican U.S. Senate race, state officials said Wednesday.
Norton will face off against Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, who earned top line on the ballot after earning 77 percent of the 3,500 delegate votes at the state Republican Assembly in May.
“Our campaign is energized by the huge outpouring of grassroots support from the voters across the state,” Norton said in a statement. “These are 30,000 signatures from Coloradans fed up with the status quo in Washington.”
State rules require 1,500 signatures from registered Republicans in each of Colorado’s seven congressional districts. The Norton campaign submitted 33,336 signatures and had more than enough from each district validated by the Colorado secretary of state’s office. About one-third of the signatures were gathered by volunteers, and the rest were collected by a firm paid for by the campaign.
Allison Sherry, The Denver Post
