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Colorado voters in the Nov. 5 election face a crush of judicial retention questions on the ballot that can be intimidating. How should voters approach them? Judges in Colorado are appointed to the bench in state and county courts, rather than elected. But they later appear on the ballot when they come up for retention — allowing voters to decide whether they should continue serving. The system has its critics, in part because it’s rare for a judge to get booted by voters.

Proposition 131 would fundamentally change how many of Colorado’s elections are run, presenting one of the most sweeping changes to the democratic process in the Centennial State’s 148-year history. As it stands, Colorado’s elections are generally handled in much the same way as in other states: In partisan contests, Republicans compete against Republicans and Democrats against Democrats in June primary races.

The terms of the settlement between 2020 election workers Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, in their defamation case against the right-wing Gateway Pundit site have not been disclosed. But if any plaintiffs deserve a big payout and an equally big apology, it’s these two women. The lives of good Samaritans Moss and Freeman were almost ruined when Rudy Giuliani falsely accused the women of committing election fraud in an effort to overturn the 2020 election on behalf of now-felon Donald Trump.

Oh dear. All of a sudden, the incredibly brave Orange Man, in the wake of his ENORMOUS ear scratch, wants to be protected as if he were the commander-in-chief. HE ISN'T. Via the Daily Beast: Donald Trump’s campaign reportedly wants the GOP candidate to travel in military aircraft and vehicles during the final weeks leading up to the election. He also wants expanded flight restrictions over his residences and rallies, as well as bulletproof glass to be installed ahead of campaign events in battleground states, according to The Washington Post. The requests for such extraordinary and unprecedented measures, first reported by The New York Times, come after the campaign was briefed on Iranian plots to kill the former president.

We've got the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying Trump "is now the most dangerous person to this country,” and most of the American media just blows it off. Retired Gen. Mark Milley Calls Trump ‘A Total Fascist’: Retired Army Gen. Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, now says Trump is a “total fascist” and “fascist to the core,” according to a forthcoming book by Bob Woodward, the famed Watergate journalist. “He is the most dangerous person ever,” Milley told Woodward for his book “War,” according to The Guardian.

By JOSH BOAK, AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLE GREENVILLE, N. C. (AP) — Kamala Harris used an appearance Sunday before a largely Black church audience in battleground North Carolina to call out Donald Trump for spreading misinformation about the government’s hurricane response. President Joe Biden visited Florida for the second time this month to survey storm damage. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, did not speak Trump’s name, but he is most prominent among those promoting false claims about the Biden administration’s response to Hurricanes Milton and Helene.