Your Douglas County Ballot, Top to Bottom: Every Line on the November 2026 Sample Ballot, in Order, With Our Page on Each

Ballots mail Friday, October 2. What follows is the county's composite sample ballot in the order it prints, so you can read this with the real thing next to it. "Composite" means it shows every contest anywhere in Douglas County; your ballot has only the ones for your address, and we note where that matters. Fill in the oval to the left of your choice, blue or black ink, and if you make a mistake cross out the whole name and fill in the right one.

Page one: federal offices

State offices

State legislature (you get one Senate and one House race, by address)

Douglas County offices (every voter)

Town offices (only if you live in the town)

Judges (yes or no on each)

Supreme Court Justice William W. Hood III. Court of Appeals Judges Rebecca Rankin Freyre, Elizabeth L. Harris, Katharine E. Lum, Pax Moultrie, Karl L. Schock, Grant Sullivan. 23rd Judicial District Judges Andrew Baum, Victoria E. Klingensmith, Theresa Slade, Daniel W. Warhola. Douglas County Court Judges Lawrence Bowling and Kolony L. Fields (these two print after the county questions). Klingensmith is the judge who ruled on the commissioners' ballot wording (our account). The Blue Book carries the performance commission's recommendation on each; all 13 are rated Meets Performance Standards, and our judges page has every narrative and vote.

The 14 statewide measures

Amendments need 55 percent except 87; propositions need a majority. Each is explained for Douglas County in one place, and the money ones are in the calculator.

• Amendment 81: immigration status reporting
• Amendment 82: right to natural gas
• Amendment 83: right to hunt and fish
• Amendment 84: ID digits on mail ballots
• Amendment 85: plain-language ballot questions
• Amendment 86: redistricting rules
• Amendment 87: graduated income tax
• Proposition NN: keep TABOR surplus for K-12
• Propositions 132 and 133: fentanyl and trafficking penalties
• Proposition 134: school sports by sex
• Proposition 135: surgeries on minors
• Proposition 136: 4.4 percent income tax cap
• Proposition 137: sporting-goods tax for conservation and wildfire

Douglas County questions (every voter)

200, 201 and 1A, the commission-expansion trio. Read them together: how to vote all three without contradicting yourself.

Local questions (only if you live there)

• Castle Pines, Questions 300 and 301: charter amendments requiring a citywide vote on annexations over 20 acres, and sending recent ones back to voters
• City of Aurora, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D: three new sales taxes (community facilities, public safety, transportation) and a move to even-year elections. Aurora reaches a few blocks into the county's northeast corner; if you see these, you are an Aurora voter
• Douglas County School District, Ballot Issue 5A: the $54 million mill levy override. What it costs your house
• Larkspur Fire Protection District, 6A and 6B: a 3.97-mill increase (about $925,000 a year) and $4.5 million in debt
• West Metro Fire (7C) and Conifer Fire (7D): slivers of the county's western edge
• Stone Creek Metropolitan District, 6C through 6G: repealing debt and multi-year spending authority approved by three voters in 2014. If you live in Stone Creek, this is your homeowners' fight; everyone else will never see it
• Front Range Passenger Rail District, 7A: the 0.333 percent sales tax and $580 million in debt for the train. In Douglas County, only Sterling Ranch is inside the district

Then sign the envelope, date it, and put it in a box. every race and measure on your ballot.