Colorado Supreme Court boots GOP congressman off June primary ballot

Doug Lamborn with his wife and Paul Ryan.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Zach Gibson)

On Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn cannot appear on the June 26 primary ballot because the signatures his campaign gathered were invalid.

Five voters sued the Colorado secretary of state, arguing that the 1,000 signatures Lamborn handed in to get on the ballot didn't count because they were gathered by petition circulators who did not live in the state. Lamborn hired a firm called Kennedy Enterprises to collect the signatures, CBS Denver reports, and they were approved by the secretary of state on March 29.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.