Jefferson County, Colorado, Clerk Amanda Gonzalez is projected to win the race for state secretary of state.
Gonzalez, who is bisexual, handily won the race with 60% of the vote to her Republican opponent’s 37%, according to Colorado Public Radio.
The position will put Gonzalez in charge of elections in the state, and she ran on a platform of building trust in elections, telling LGBTQ Nation that “people distrusting or not participating in the system” is the biggest threat to democracy at the moment.
“I think the major threat to our democracy is that we are often not working from the same set of facts anymore,” she said. “People talk about generative AI or those kinds of threats; my bigger worry is that people will lose the ability to know what’s real. So even when their election officials are telling them, ‘Hey, you know, here’s how you vote, here’s how you register, here’s who’s eligible, here’s how you make sure your voice is heard,’ that they’ll see that and say, ‘You know, I don’t know if that’s real or not,’ and I think that is a real danger.”
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