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The Voter Newsletter

Published On 2/14/2025
Includes

Words of inspiration from our Presidents and other leaders
Student Scholarship Applications Open
Merit Awards Nominations
Doing Democracy Day
Meet Your Legislators
Program Planning meeting
Immigrants' Rights Events
How Do You Get Your Local News and Information?
Proportional Representation for City Council and County Commissioners
Upcoming LWVUS Judiciary Study
Counted Out - Math is Power film
Consensus Meetings for the LWVCO Religious Freedom Position
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Published On 12/8/2024
As you prepare for your holidays, please remember that your end-of-year donation to LWVBC is essential in helping us meet our education and legislative action goals for the new year.
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Published On 9/5/2024
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.
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Published On 6/2/2024
Introducing WHY I VOTE - VOICES OF OUR COMMUNITY
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Published On 6/2/2024
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.
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Published On 6/2/2024
A report and pictures from our annual meeting
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Voting Methods Team

Published On 2/7/2025
Longmont, Boulder (City) and Boulder County – Considering Proportional Representation for City Council and County Commissioners
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Published On 12/8/2024
The post-election headlines are making much ado about the failure to adopt Instant-Runoff (ranked) Voting in Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Arizona. In all but Oregon, the reform was paired with a choose-one all-candidate primary open to all voters, modeled after Alaska’s Final-4 Voting. (Alaska voters narrowly – by 664 votes – retained Final-4 Voting.) Voters also rejected primary election reforms in Montana and South Dakota and banned ranked voting in Missouri.
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Published On 10/2/2024
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.
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Published On 8/2/2024
OUR SHARED REPUBLIC: The Case for Proportional Ranked Choice Voting in the United States House of Representatives
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Published On 6/3/2024
Eugene, Oregon and Boulder, Colorado are similar-sized university cities in the western U.S. They are typically regarded as peer cities. They recently held elections revolving around a new voting method. The ballot contests and results were quite different, but the campaigning had some similarities.
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Published On 5/5/2024
In our previous article, we highlighted the misleading nature of reporting multi-winner city council contests, and advocated for a shift to presenting a candidate’s support as a percentage of ballots rather than a percentage of votes. Continuing this discussion, we delve deeper into how our current reporting approach can hide serious ballot design flaws, which can be responsible for changing the outcomes of elections! These examples underscore the crucial need for consistent and transparent reporting of election results.
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Published On 4/28/2024
A Review of "The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes"
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