Inside the red brick walls of the La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo, Colorado, Tina Peters has grown impatient. The former Republican clerk of Mesa County, Peters is one year into a nine-year prison term for her role in a scheme with fellow election ...

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Can a relative centrist hold on against a surging left-wing candidate? This Midwestern city is about to find out.