Voter activation tour stops in Sterling to boost Logan County turnout

A voter activation tour chose Sterling as a stop because Logan County is the kind of place where turnout and party loyalty are easy to measure and hard to ignore. The Courageous Colorado Activation Tour scheduled a November 11, 2025 stop in Sterling and Fort Morgan as part of a 10-day push across conservative counties and the Eastern Plains, aiming to move rural communities from listening into turnout.

Organizers said the earlier Courageous Colorado Listening Tour brought together roughly 150 community members, civic leaders and local officials across nearly 20 cities and towns. The follow-up activation phase put Sterling on the map alongside Greeley, Fort Collins, Craig and Steamboat Springs, signaling that the campaign was looking well beyond the state’s metro centers for voters who might still be moved to participate.

Logan County gave the effort a clear test case. The county cast 10,274 ballots in the November 5, 2024 general election, with Donald J. Trump and JD Vance winning 7,855 votes to 2,098 for Kamala D. Harris and Tim Walz. In the June 25, 2024 primary, Logan County recorded 5,242 cards cast. Those numbers matter in a county with an estimated population of 20,755, where election organizers are working with a smaller electorate and a sharply defined partisan pattern.

Sterling, the county seat and largest city in Logan County, had an estimated population of 13,114 in 2024. The Logan County Clerk & Recorder lists the voter service and polling location at the Logan County Courthouse, 315 Main Street, Suite 3, in Sterling. That makes the city both the administrative center of county elections and the most visible place to try to change who actually shows up.

The 2024 general election returns also showed Republican strength down the ballot. Kristi “KBB” Burton Brown received 7,425 votes in the county’s congressional race, and Jim Yahn won 8,318 votes for county commissioner District 2. For organizers, those margins suggest Logan County is less about flipping ideology than about increasing participation among voters already living in a reliably Republican place.

Colorado election records tracked by the secretary of state reach back to 1902, giving organizers a long view of turnout trends and registration patterns. Against that backdrop, the Sterling stop reflected a broader gamble: if rural counties like Logan can be energized, the biggest gains may come not from persuasion at the edges, but from getting more of the already-aligned electorate to vote.