Rogers v. Barnes

Byron G. Rogers, as plaintiff-contester, filed in this Court an original proceeding entitled Petition for Contest of Primary Election and named Craig S. Barnes as a defendant-contestee. Also named as a defendant was Byron Anderson, the Secretary of State for Colorado.

From the petition we learn that Rogers and Barnes were candidates for nomination by the Democratic Party for United States Representative to Congress from Colorado’s First Congressional District and that at the primary election held on September 8, 1970 Barnes had apparently won by some thirty votes. By his petition Rogers…