On September 4, a Colorado state trial court ordered the Secretary of State to put Sean Vadney on the ballot as the Libertarian nominee for Secretary of State. Vadney v Griswold, Denver District Court, 2026CV33176. Here is the 5-page order.

The original Libertarian nominee for Secretary of State had withdrawn on Aaugust 26. The party replaced him as quickly as it could, on August 29. But the Secretary of State did not accept the new nominee because the original nominee had withdrawn 69 days before the general election, and the law said he was one day too late, and the replacement process could not be carried out. The decision says that the relevant law should be applied liberally, not strictly. It noted that no harm was done to the elections orocess by the timing problem.