| VOLUME 33, NUMBER 4 • DECEMBER 2019 | Message from the President |
The LWVCO Board of Directors and staff wish you a happy and healthy 2020!
Thank you to everyone who joined us on the November 14th and 15th LWVCO Presidents Calls. We hope you found them helpful and will give us feedback for future calls. The next calls will be January 13th and 14th. Please mark your calendar now.
Volunteers needed:
- Liz Nick, League of Women Voters of Boulder County, chairs LWVCO’s Grants Committee. We are looking for two volunteers for this committee. (READ MORE)
| | |  | Colorado Prepares for Super Tuesday
Thanks to Initiative 107 passed in 2016, Colorado will hold its first presidential primary election in 20 years on March 3, 2020 -- Super Tuesday.
Key dates:
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Jan. 3: Secretary of State certifies the names and party affiliations of candidates on the presidential primary ballot
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Jan. 18: Deadline for primary ballots to be sent to military and overseas voters
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Feb. 3: Last day for voters who are affiliated with a party to change or withdraw their affiliation in order to vote in a different party's presidential primary. Also, last day for unaffiliated voters to select a party preference in order to be sent that party's ballot.
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Feb. 10: First day primary ballots can be mailed to voters
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Feb. 24-March 3: Voter services and polling centers must be open for primary election
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March 3: SUPER TUESDAY -- Colorado's first presidential primary since 2000
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has announced that the following candidates will appear on the presidential primary ballot:
Robert Andini - Republican
Michael Bennet - Democratic
Joseph R. Biden - Democratic
Michael R. Bloomberg - Democratic
Cory Booker - Democratic
Pete Buttigieg - Democratic
Julián Castro - Democratic
Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente - Republican
John K. Delaney - Democratic
Tulsi Gabbard - Democratic
Zoltan G. Istvan - Republican
Amy Klobuchar - Democratic
Rita Krichevsky - Democratic
Matthew John Matern - Republican
Deval Patrick - Democratic
Bernie Sanders - Democratic
Tom Steyer - Democratic
Donald J. Trump - Republican
Joe Walsh - Republican
Elizabeth Warren - Democratic
Bill Weld - Republican
Robby Wells - Democratic
Marianne Williamson - Democratic
Andrew Yang - Democratic
Voters affiliated with a major party may only cast ballots for the party with which they are affiliated, while unaffiliated voters may cast a ballot for either party, but must choose one.
|  | | There are a variety of 100th Anniversary tools available for local Leagues to utilize in LWVCO website's Document Library under Local League Resources, including:
- a number of articles that can be submitted to you local newspapers
- a proclamation for the 100th anniversary of the League for submission to municipal governments
- a PowerPoint presentation -- The History of the Suffrage Movement
| | | | VOTE411.org served approximately 4% of Coloradans who voted in the 2019 election.
VOTE411.org usage increased 257% from 2017 - 2019.
BIG THANKS TO CATH PERRONE FOR HER HARD WORK IN IMPLEMENTING AND MAINTAINING THIS VALUABLE PLATFORM! | | | LWV Boulder County's Shoebox Stories |
The League of Women Voters in Boulder are hosting a unique story-sharing experience, and would like you to join! Shoebox Stories is a story-holding project where we gather together and stand in another person's shoes by reading aloud their story, saying their words, and holding, for a moment, the weight they carry.(Click here to read more.)
| Six Minutes of Suffrage: Inez Milholland, 1886-1916
by Lyda M. Hardy, Program Director, League of Women Voters of the Gunnison Valley | | On Christmas Day 1916, some 10,000 mourners filed into Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol to attend a memorial service. It was the first time a woman had ever been honored with a service in the seat of government. The woman was Inez Milholland. Although not a household name today, she was a figurehead in the suffrage movement.
Milholland was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Vassar College, where she enrolled two-thirds of the students in a suffrage organization even though the male president forbade any suffrage activities on campus. (READ MORE) | | | Funding Opportunities
Grant opportunities for Colorado Leagues are listed on the LWVCO website here. It's updated when new funds or grants become available, so check back often! | ReFUND - A New Way to Raise Funds! | ReFUND COLORADO is a new system of charitable giving enabling taxpayers to donate any portion of their Colorado state income tax refund to a trusted nonprofit! Learn more, including how to get your League involved, here. | | |  |
- 2020 is just around the corner and so is the 100th Birthday of the League of Women Voters on February 14th. For those of you planning events in February, please let Jean McGuire and Cameron Manning know what you have in the works. We would like to get your event on the LWVCO calendar and, if possible, state board members would like to attend.
- An email was sent out to all League Leaders from Jean McGuire requesting best practices on Membership Engagement and New Member Orientation. We heard from one League, Arapahoe-Douglas. Thanks Alice and Jo! We would like to hear from more.Please email Jean to share your League’s successful practices.
- Does your League support National Popular Vote? If you have not informed us yet, please email Cameron Manning.
- Half of the local Leagues have responded to our Local League Survey. If you have not yet responded, we ask you to respond HERE. It's information we really need; thank you!
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2020 Program Planning information was emailed out earlier this month. This year, however, we are now calling Program Planning, "Issues for Action." We recognize this name change may require some adjusting, and we appreciate your help in making the transition seamless.Response forms are due March 1, 2020. We ask for the response form to be returned via email to info@lwvcolorado.org. After reviewing these materials, we invite you to direct questions to Lena Brown.
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