DENVER | The Colorado Secretary of State’s office announced Wednesday, April 20, that Jack Graham submitted a sufficient number of petition signatures and will appear as a candidate on the June 28 Republican U.S. Senate primary ballot.
The Secretary of State’s office determined that slightly more than half of the 22,786 total petition signatures Graham submitted late last month were valid, according to a news release. Graham submitted 12,891 valid signatures, which surpasses the 10,500 signatures required to make the primary ballot. Senate candidates seeking to make the primary ballot were required to obtain 1,500 signatures from registered Republican voters in each of the state’s seven congressional districts.
Graham, the former athletic director at Colorado State University, is the first candidate to join Darryl Glenn, an El Paso County Commissioner, on the GOP primary ballot. In an upset, Glenn received about 70 percent of the delegate votes cast at the Republican state assembly earlier this month.
The Secretary of State’s Office is still counting petition signatures submitted by three other Republican candidates for U.S. Senate: Jon Keyser, Robert Blaha and Ryan Frazier.
Each of the prospective senators is vying to dethrone incumbent Democratic Senator Michael Bennet. Bennet won the Colorado Democrtatic Party’s uncontested nomination at a party assembly last weekend.