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BRIDGE TO BRIGHTON

Located in Brighton, Colorado

We believe (paraphrased from Indivisible):

VOTE NOW!

Brighton Area Voter’s Guide

for Nov. 3^rd 2026 General Election

Below you will find information to help make voting as easy as possible.

Who runs the General Election?

The county where you reside runs the General Election you will vote in.

Adams County Elections – https://adamscountyco.gov/our-county/elected-officials/clerk-recorder/adams-county-elections/

Phone: 720-523-6500

Weld County Elections – https://www.weld.gov/Government/Departments/Clerk-and-Recorder/Elections-Department

Phone: 970-304-6525

Voter Service and Polling Centers 

Each County will open Voter Service and Polling Centers (VSPCs) starting on October 19, 2026. The number of VSPCs increases as the election nears. By November 2, 2026, Adams County will have 34 VSPCs and Weld County will have 20 VSPCs. There is a VSPC near you or your place of work. Locations are available on the websites and on the information included with your mail ballot. 

Weld County VSPC locations: https://www.weld.gov/files/sharedassets/public/v/1/departments/clerk-and-recorder/documents/elections/2026-general-voting-and-drop-box-locations.pdf

Adams County VSPC locations:

https://adamscountyco.gov/our-county/elected-officials/clerk-recorder/adams-county-elections/2026-elections/voter-service-polling-center-locations

What can I do at a VSPC?

• Mail ballot drop off
• Obtain a replacement mail ballot
• New voter registration/Update voter registration
• Vote an in-person ballot, a Provisional ballot, or a Statewide Ballot
• ADA accessible voting on a Ballot Marking Device

I have moved since the last election. How do I update my voter registration?

You may register to vote, change your address, or alter your Party affiliation at https://www.govotecolorado.gov/. You may change your address in person at a VSPC.

When will I receive my mail ballot?

Mail ballots will be sent to registered voters beginning October 5, 2026. 

What do I do if I don’t receive my mail ballot? What if my mail ballot gets ruined or lost?  

1- You can request a replacement mail ballot to be sent to you by mail on or before October 26, 2026

2- You can request a replacement mail ballot or vote in person at a VSPC until 7 pm on Election Day.

Where can I cast my ballot?

Each County has 24 Hour Ballot Drop Boxes available from October 5-November 3 at multiple locations. These Ballot Boxes are under 24 hour video surveillance and are collected by official Election Officials at frequent intervals. Information on Ballot Drop Box locations is on the websites and in your mail ballot package. You may also drop off your Mail Ballot at a VSPC.

What is the deadline for ballots to be returned to the County?

In Colorado, a ballot must be received by the County Clerk by 7 pm on Election Day, which is November 3, 2026. If you are in line at a VSPC at 7 pm on November 3, 2026, you are allowed to vote in person at that location.

Do I need an I.D. to vote in person?

Yes. In order to vote in person at a VSPC you must show one of several forms of acceptable I.D., listed here: https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/elections/vote/acceptableFormsOfID.html

What is the deadline to register to vote in the upcoming election?

If you have resided in Colorado for at least 22 days before Election Day (Oct. 12^th, 2026), you may register any time, including Election Day. You must be 18 years old by Election Day in order to be eligible to vote.

Track your ballot:

Go to BallotTrax.coloradosos.gov. Simply enter your first name, last name, date of birth, and residential zip code to access the voter portal or to sign-up.

Voter Assistance Hotlines:

1-833-336-8683 or 1-866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683)

Information compiled from publicly available sources.

Indivisible Bridge to Brighton

September 18, 2026

*Picture by mounsey @Pixabay

Our Past Actions

• March, 2025June 24, 2026

  Our Actions: March, 2025

  Members of our group, before we became Bridge to Brighton, attend various pro-democracy events in Colorado. Here are just a few:

  

  March 9, 2025

  Stand with Ukraine

  Denver, Colorado

  

  Stand

  with

  UKRAINE

  Michael Bennet

  Denver Capital

  Denver, Colorado
  

  

  Town Hall, Michael Bennet

  March 18, 2025

  University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado

  

  Bernie & AOC in Denver – March 21 2025

• March/April 2025June 24, 2026

  Our Actions: March/April, 2025

  Members of our group, before we became Bridge to Brighton,

  attended various pro- democracy events in Colorado.

  

  March 22, 2025

  Gabe Evans (U.S. House for Colorado District 8) refused to hold a town hall (and still does refuse). When he refused participation, the Absentee Town Hall was held without him, Northglenn, Colorado. Manny Rutinel attended.

  March 30, 2025

  Manny Rutinel campaign launch for U.S. House, District 8 Colorado, Northglenn

  

  

  April 19, 2025

  After many trips to Denver and Greeley, we decided to start our first protest in Brighton, Hands Off!

  April 26, 2025

  As CD 8 House Representative Gabe Evans continued to refuse to hold town halls, another Absentee Town Hall was held. He refused participation. Greeley, Colorado. Manny Rutinel attended.

  

• July 4, 2026June 26, 2026
  The Reading of the Declaration of Independence

  

  We Hold These Truths

  To celebrate the 250th anniversary of our country, we will be holding a reading of the document that got it all officially started, the Declaration of Independence.
  
  On Saturday, July 4th, we will gather at 3:45 on the sidewalk on the north side of Carmichael Park (on Southern near 6th) and begin the reading at 4:00. Please join us!

  This event is sponsored by Indivisible Bridge to Brighton with the support of Indivisible Westminster.

  A core principle behind all Indivisible events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values. If you are hosting your own event, we expect hosts to ensure all participants in your event uphold this commitment.

• Weekly Visibility EventsAugust 8, 2026
  Manny Rutinel for CD 8

  &

  Dez Packard for Colorado HD 48

  

  We will schedule events weekly after looking at the weather on Saturday. Event days will be posted here each week.

  We will be on the pedestrian bridge over Highway 85 in Brighton.

  Ample parking can be found in the parking lot, off Skeel Street, south of the Brighton pavilions – near the AMC theater. The bridge can also be accessed at South Kuner Road and Southern Street.

  For now, our events will be held from 4:30-5:30. The times may change as we get closer to the election, depending on daylight hours and whether changes in Daylight Savings Time happen. Bring your smiles and arms ready to wave.

  We will have banners ready to hang!

  

  

  Eighth VISIBILITY EVENT:
  
  Wednesday 10/2/26, 4:30-5:30 Weather permitting

  South Kuner Road / Southern Street 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

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  A core principle behind all Indivisible events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.

• What Do You Know About Data Centers?August 19, 2026

  

  Data Centers and Jobs.

  First Follow-Up to our 8/18/26 City Council Meeting in Brighton

  This is going to be a series of articles on why we don’t want data centers in our community, but the argument from the other side is going to be why we do need them. So, here is some background information because their argument is partially fair, and to fight it, we need to acknowledge it and understand it.

  CONTINUED…

  What is a Data Center, and why do they not create many jobs?

  Well, I happen to know a fair amount of people who work with Data Centers, so I am going to try to answer this question from interviewing them. It’s a little complicated because Data Centers are changing, especially with AI.

  First, not all Data Centers are owned by a single company. Developers create Data Centers, which can hold servers for many companies and run them all at once. This is the type of Data Center that Brighton City Planning said they want here. In the simplest terms, older (more pre-AI) Data Centers look like aisles and aisles of servers (for simplicity sake, servers are computers that are different than your home computer). These aisles and aisles of servers are on racks, so they can basically stack servers from floor to ceiling. Organizing them this way makes it easier to find where a specific company’s servers are located in a Data Center (building 4, aisle 13, rack 11, 7 servers up from the bottom, for example). It also makes it easier to organize power, internet connectivity, etc… for each server. Think of this somewhat like a parking lot, with thousands of the same or very similar EVs, all plugged into charging ports right at their parking spot.

  In the Data Center itself, there tend to be very few employees. Once the Data Center is built, they will hire a few people for security, and possibly keep a person or two around to make sure things are running ok. Some Data Centers might have a person or two to help with server issues.

  How do the servers get into the Data Center, and who owns them?

  Let’s pretend you’re opening a large business that handles a lot of phone calls, maybe an insurance company. You hire a business that helps you set up your phone system, so that when people press 1, it goes to the “questions about coverage” department and 2 goes to the “why didn’t you pay my hospital bill” department, etc…. This company will help you figure out how many servers you will need to do the work and possibly to have backups and future growth.

  Maybe they determine you need 20 servers. They will order the 20 servers and find a Data Center that has space to “rack” them. The servers may need to be certified by another company to make sure there is no spyware on them. They will then coordinate with that Data Center for the arrival of the servers, and often for a tech to go out to the Data Center. The employee of the Center will take the tech to the designated space where the tech will “rack and stack” them.

  The tech will configure the servers to allow your company to get remote access to them, so you can put your software on them to run your company’s phone system. After this time, the servers are generally very stable and can often run years without needing to be physically touched. Your company is able to access those servers from anywhere in the world, reboot them, change what is on them, fix “bugs”, etc…. If something does go wrong, you would generally send the tech you used from the company who installed them to help you, and you are likely paying that company for maintenance.

  So, why didn’t you just put your servers in your own building and run your phone system from there?

  Well, we used to do things like that, but the answer is scale. If you have a big enough business that you now need 20 or 30 servers for just your phones (your imaginary company also has servers for other company needs), it is likely cheaper and easier for you to put them in a Data Center. You don’t have to have the space, figure out cooling, figure out complex power and internet needs, figure out what to do if the power goes out, provide security, etc….

  So, what are more modern Data Centers doing?

  They’re evolving, and they’re starting to look a little different. Think back to the parking lot analogy with all of the relatively same EVs plugged into charging ports and sitting in their parking space. With AI, the Data Centers still have the cars, but they’re broken down into pieces. All of the steering wheels are in once space, the tires in another, but the motors are all piled very high and contain all of the AI information. Businesses connect their pieces, depending on the scale they need, to the AI and let the AI do the work.

  The problem is that AI uses a lot more energy. A document from United Power stated the average non-AI Google search used 0.3 kW of energy, while the average AI data search used 2.7 kW. That is about the energy it takes to run a large burner on your electric stove for an hour. In energy terms, it’s a lot. Based on my home’s average daily electricity use over the last 4 years, for 6-8 AI searches per day, I can, on average, power my entire house comfortably.

  Data Center developers are going to argue about what type of data will be held in their facility. When people want to stop data centers from coming to their towns, it is important to note that they are already all around us, everywhere, and integrated into everyday life. You are using a server in a Data Center when you:

  • Read this article
  • Make a phone call on your home internet phone
  • Make a cell phone call
  • “Press 1” on a phone call
  • Drive a modern car (GPS, service needs, satellite radio, car location, remote start or climate control, etc…)
  • Park your car using an app
  • Make your business website
  • Leave a review
  • Stream music (Apple music, Amazon music, Spotify, etc…)
  • Stream movies or tv (Netflix, Apple TV, cable streaming services)
  • Game (online computer , PlayStation, XBox, Nintendo, etc…)
  • Allow Flock surveillance cameras in your community (did you know Brighton has 8?)
  • Allow companies surveillance over our kids (Intellisee school surveillance cameras were just installed in all 27J middle and high schools)
  • Connect smart kitchen appliances
  • Use the Internet for anything (Googling, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc…)
  • Send, save, or read an email
  • Use a patient portal to access your health records
  • Enroll your child in school (school/student records)
  • Buy anything online (Amazon, concert tickets, etc…)
  • Use AI (Artificial Intelligence), or have it used on you with or without your knowledge (surveillance cameras, phone analytics when you call a company, “this call may be monitored for quality assurance”, smart tv analytics sharing what you watch, internet analytics that share what you pause on, buy, or click on, allow your car insurance company to install a gizmo or for newer cars that can share your driving habits, use FaceApp or FaceLab to make a picture of yourself look different, use Google and other search engines that automatically produce AI answers at the top of the list. Do you Google 6-8 times per day? You may be using more power than your home in a day.)

  What I hope you take away from this is how integrated Data Centers are to our everyday lives, but also how the type of data they are storing is changing from games, music, movies, and access to our health records, to more sinister things like spyware and invasive “one answer fits all “ technology that (in my opinion) causes people to lose their critical thinking skills. Data Center developers will use this “you’re already so dependent on it” thinking to open a facility anywhere at any cost. We will not have control over what kind of technology goes in it. The bulk of new Data Centers are for AI and there is a race to be first and beat out competition. This false claim of AI being inevitable is untrue and they’re losing gobs of money. OpenAI, in fact, is asking for government funds.

  I also hope that you take away that there is no reason they need to be here in our community. They are NOT job creators, and this reasoning is flawed.

  In future articles, we will talk about electricity, gas, water, sound, infrasound, heat, property values, etc… We will also have articles on the information we have uncovered, and what we’re still trying to find out. Thank you to the community for showing up and speaking up!