The Colorado House of Representatives passed, on a 37-28 party-line vote, a bill that will allow citizens to cast remote ballots in recall elections.
Senate Bill 158 was being pushed by Democrats angered by the recalls last year of state Sens. Angela Giron and John Morse, who were voted out of office after their support for gun-control measures.
A third Democratic senator, Evie Hudak, resigned rather than face a recall battle.
Morse and Giron were removed after voter turnouts of 21 and 36 percent, respectively. Democrats argue that the outcome was, at least in part, the result of recall election laws, which effectively required voters to physically turn in ballots on a single day.
That differs from how most voting is conducted today, with mail-in and absentee ballots.
The new bill would bring recall ballots in line with general elections.
House Republicans argued that the measure would be tantamount to changing the state’s constitution.
