Elections

Jennifer Levin, senior attorney for Disability Law Colorado said the safest way to vote during the health crisis is by mail, but all options are on the table for people with disabilities.

Critics of the ballot measure point to huge government bureaucracies and mandated “taxes” in other states, but supporters say every program is solvent, successful.

Super PACs and dark money nonprofits have already spent more than $27 million on the race between Colorado’s two major-party Senate candidates, Cory Gardner and John Hicknelooper.

COLab intern and Stanford MA grad Max Lee analyzed hundreds of fundraising emails from the Gardner and Hickenlooper Senate campaigns and came up with this analysis of their partisan wording.

After the council vote, education and outreach efforts shifted to comply with campaign practices law, according to Jennifer Loper, spokeswoman for the city of Longmont’s Public Works and Natural Resources.

We know voters and potential voters will have questions about how voter registration works, how mail-in ballots work, how ballots are counted and more. The Colorado News Collaborative and its members, which the Leader is among, want to answer those questions. Here’s a start.

The voting methods in Colorado are customary and date back to 2013, when the all-mail ballot system went statewide for all elections. Yet Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold and county clerks from both parties now find themselves defending a system that was added as an option for Colorado counties back in 1993.

Initiative 283 would provide 12 weeks of paid family or medical leave. Businesses with 10 or more employees would pay a premium equal to about 0.9% of an employee’s wages into a state-run insurance program, up to half of which could be taken out of the employee’s paycheck.

The “She is Me” virtual happy hour and panel discussion on Wednesday will focus on stories of league members shared through a photojournalism project of the same name. It also will celebrate Women’s Equality Day, which marks the anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. 

The St. Vrain and Left Hand Water Conservancy District, made up primarily of Boulder County, is asking voters for more money for the first time in 50 years.