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The Board of Directors of the League of Women Voters of Colorado (LWVCO) today issued a formal letter to Governor Jared Polis calling on him to stand firm against improper federal interference that threatens Colorado’s constitutional authority to administer free, fair, and secure elections.

Learn about the new law in CO that impacts immigrant communities, learn about new requirements for local agencies, handling personal information, and interactions with federal immigration authorities.

We held our election season kickoff meeting and member mixer on August 21 at the Boulder Junkyard Social club, and as you can see from these pictures, it was a huge success.

Introducing WHY I VOTE - VOICES OF OUR COMMUNITY

Tuesday, June 11, 2024, 6-9pm
Louisville Fire Station 1

As organizers and participants of community events, we have a responsibility to do our best to ensure that everyone feels welcome & safe.

A report and pictures from our annual meeting

Make an informed decision about whether to sign petitions about ballot measures.

Our LWVBC Voting Methods position states, “Candidate vote counts in multi-winner plurality contests should be reported as a percent of ballots for better public understanding of support for candidates." Colorado’s Election Night Reporting software misleadingly only reports percent of the total vote. And unfortunately, the county clerks typically don't report crucial information (the number of ballots cast in each contest), until after certification, making it impossible to know the rate of undervotes or overvotes, or the average number of votes per ballot in council races, until after the audit.

If we had a presidential election based on the national popular vote instead of on Electoral College victories in each state, then, especially in a close presidential contest, voter turnout would increase because people would feel like their vote really matters and is visible in the final tally.

We’ve been reporting about the proposed Final-4 Voting initiative for months now. Get the latest on Prop 131, learn about related ballot measures in other states and see what happened when LWV Estes Park conducted a Final-4 Voting election. In other news, Marcus Ogren has been making a name for themself in the voting methods world, and STAR Voting is up for adoption in Oakridge, OR. *Click here* for all that news and to see sample Final-4 Voting and STAR Voting ballots.

OUR SHARED REPUBLIC: The Case for Proportional Ranked Choice Voting in the United States House of Representatives

A Review of "The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes"