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The League of Women Voters of Boulder County is backing several measures that aim to protect election officials and the integrity of local voting. Learn more in this local news article.

Our friends from CIRC (Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition) are asking for our help with HB22-1289 “Health Benefits for Colorado Children and Pregnant Persons” (also known as “Cover All Coloradans”).

Our new LWVBC study on Timing of Local Elections is particularly relevant this month. Erie and Nederland held elections for mayor and town trustees on April 5, and Louisville is holding a special election on the Redtail Ridge development question on April 19.

Our past letters to the editor are now archived. Click on arrow —>

This is the second installment of reports on the activities of the LWVCO Legislative Action Committee (LAC).

At the recent LWV of Boulder County Program Planning meeting, LWVBC decided to study the timing of municipal and special district elections

The 2022 Colorado State Legislative session officially kicked off on January 12, and with it the start of the LWVCO Legislative Action Committee (LAC).

A third of the states allow citizens who are 17 but will be 18 by the general election to vote in the primary election. However, this right to vote was revoked – inadvertently, LWVCO thinks – by the Colorado electorate in 2020 with the passage of Amendment 76 (A76).

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This month's newsletter includes a call for volunteers for the 2021 election season, update on League efforts around redistricting, and a letter in memorial of Betty Bramhall.

Would you like to know how we spend our money to Make Democracy Work for All? This article will give you a brief rundown.

Would you like to help fulfill our mission of educating and empowering voters? We are looking to fill two positions--Voter Registration Drive Coordinator and Ballot Issue Coordinator

News and actions on gun safety

Article from membership team

Such a state of affairs would be music to my ears! It is possible, with the passage of the United States Senate Bill #1 (S #1), the “For the People” Act that passed the U.S. House of Representatives (HR #1) March 3rd, and was presented in the U.S. Senate on March 8th, 2021.

Welcome to New Members Jennifer Greene and Veniece Miller. Our current member count is 281.

90 Never Looked so Good

Musing on the occasion of the new climate action issue team

Membership updates

The nominating committee is looking for people to fill three positions

We note with sadness the recent passing of Marion Read, after a long bout with cancer

VOTER article - Feb 2021 Membership

Voting methods - City Council Elections - The Voter, Feb 2021

Shelby Bates and Lydia Linke form LWVBC's ne website team

Letter to the Editor by Co-President Elizabeth Crowe regarding the proposed For the People Act

Additional Bequest from Pat Johnson and interview at Carnegie Library

In memoriam - Judith Stueben

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold awarded NASS Medallion Awards to those who contributed to the success of the 2020 election including LWVCO

Presidents' Letter Feb 2021 - Reflection and Action!

At this summer’s convention, most Colorado Leaguers will be focused – appropriately enough – on gaining LWVUS concurrence with our new state position on Election Security. However, we wanted to let you know that our very own local LWVBC will also be co-sponsoring two caucuses on voting methods.

LWVBC helped write and then signed a letter asking Boulder City Council to consider electoral reforms, specifically proportional representation. A diverse group of political thinkers co-signed, including former council members Jan Burton and Steve Pomerance, who both wrote Daily Camera opinion columns about alternative voting methods to elect council members.

Mark Parsons and Neal McBurnett, two members of the league of women’s voters election integrity team say, rather than hanging chads or election fraud, people should spend more time looking at the math behind election results. Alexis Kenyon from KGNU spoke with them about their recent article in Boulder Beat, “A Better Way To Report Election Results.” Listen in at: https://news.kgnu.org/2021/12/the-way-most-places-report-election-results-is-pretty-misleading/

In the February 2021 VOTER newsletter, our LWVBC Voting Methods Team presented a better way to display multi-winner Boulder and Lafayette council elections, using the 2019 Boulder council election results. By clicking on the link below, you can view the improved reporting of results for three 2021 Boulder County elections – this time including the Longmont 2-winner at-large council member election.

Some voting methods we don't recommend

Was the city of New York’s Democratic primary for mayor a good test case for Boulder? In 2023, Boulderites will elect their mayor using instant-runoff voting (IRV), the most well-known form of Ranked Choice Voting (RCV).

A talking point getting a lot of buzz recently states that voters have to be strategic when they fill out an approval voting ballot. We’d like to disentangle this accusation.

The term ranked-choice voting (RCV) is so bandied about these days that it tends to take up all the oxygen in any discussion on better voting methods. However, RCV is actually an umbrella term referring to several, though not all, ranked-voting methods.