Secretary Wayne Williams: Erin Bennett makes ballot

DENVER, April 14, 2016 -- Secretary of State Wayne Williams announced today that state Senate candidate Erin Bennett successfully petitioned onto the June 28 primary ballot.

Bennett, a Denver Democrat, is running for Senate District 31 represented by Sen. Pat Steadman, D-Denver, who is term limited.

Here is the signature breakdown for Bennett:

• Required: 1,000
• Turned in: 1,403
• Rejected: 173
• Accepted: 1,230

The Secretary of State's office is still counting signatures from other candidates who turned in their petitions, including four Republican U.S. Senate hopefuls: Jack Graham, Jon Keyser, Robert Blaha and Ryan Frazier. One other Senate candidate, Darryl Glenn, got on the June 28 primary ballot at the state assembly.

Bennett brings to five the number of candidates -- all running for the Colorado General Assembly -- who have been notified they successfully petitioned onto the primary ballot. Twenty candidates turned in petition signatures by the April 4 deadline. Of that, one candidate's campaign improperly collected the signatures, which earlier were rejected without being tabulated. Another candidate turned in signatures, but then made the ballot afterward through the assembly process so the signatures were not recorded.