Brief by Central Staff
Local Politics – May 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
There’s the saying that “every vote matters,” and it was certainly true in the Westcliffe municipal election on April 2.
Jess Price beat Dave Purnell for the mayor’s seat by a one-vote margin: 64-63.
Price has served on the town board of trustees for a dozen years, and this isn’t his first close election. When he first ran for the board, in 1990, he and Tom King tied with 56 votes apiece.
It was settled with a coin toss, which seems to be the preferred method in Colorado, since that’s also how a tie vote was settled this spring in the town of Morrison, which sits near Red Rocks Park just west of Denver.
While there may be a better way than a coin toss, we’re pretty sure it’s an improvement over litigation about pregnant and hanging chads.
