Press Release

Monday, March 2, 2026 

Contact: press@celeste4sos.com 

Website: https://www.celeste4sos.com/  

Celeste Landry is running for Colorado Secretary of State 

Celeste Landry is a longtime election champion. She is the Secretary of State candidate fighting hardest in Colorado 

for the right to vote,  

for better representation, and 

for election integrity. 

Celeste wants to empower voters, not a political party. She believes that the Secretary of State works for all Coloradans, regardless of political affiliation. Celeste is running with the Forward Party label and will appear on the November ballot. 

While the other candidates are focused on the national election scene, Celeste is also concerned about important issues in Colorado that seem to be flying under the radar. Since 2020, Coloradans have seen the erosion of the right to vote, especially with the passage of two unconstitutional bills in 2025. Other bills to allow the widespread use of electronic ballot return put the integrity of Colorado’s elections in jeopardy. Celeste has also worked for more than a decade to give voters more expressive ballots so that election results can better reflect and represent the will of the electorate. 

As Secretary of State, Celeste Landry will stand for voters. She will also collaborate with the county clerks to conduct secure and accessible elections while being transparent and accurate. 

Celeste joined the race for Secretary of State because the other candidates are ignoring these important Colorado-specific issues or, unfortunately, are working at cross purposes. Please visit the Priorities page of Celeste’s website to see examples of Celeste’s public record working for the right to vote, better representation and election integrity. 

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Right to Vote 

• Celeste believes that everyone who is eligible to register to vote should be encouraged and supported in their effort to vote in every government election, especially any election that fills a seat. 

• When primary elections are the de facto decisive election, Celeste supports expanding the primary electorate to let more people participate. This includes letting 17-year-olds who will be 18 in the general election vote in the primary election initiating a lifelong voting habit, as Colorado briefly did in 2020 and as one-third of the states do. Why should Colorado silence the voice of young citizens, giving our state less say than others in presidential primaries? 

Better Representation 

• Celeste supports more candidates running for office, but also wants voters to be able to express their true preference without the risk of a spoiler candidate leading to the least-preferred candidate winning.

• Celeste supports proportional voting methods to elect members of a legislature, council, commission or board. When a district elects multiple members using a proportional voting method, gerrymandering is virtually impossible and more electoral groups get representation leading to better decisions. 

• For elected offices, such as Secretary of State, which are not part of an elected body, Celeste supports better single-winner voting methods, such as Approval Voting, ranked voting methods (Instant-Runoff Voting or Condorcet methods), and STAR (Score Then Automatic Runoff) Voting.

Election Integrity 

• ​​​​Celeste is a strong supporter of paper ballots. She wants to limit electronic ballot return to only necessary cases to prevent voter disenfranchisement (e.g., overseas voters) or to provide access to a private ballot (e.g., blind voters). 

• Celeste supports robust audits of both ballot counts and chain-of-custody of election materials. She has observed risk-limiting audits of both choose-one and Instant-Runoff Voting elections.