Emailing - League of Women Voters of Colorado

Date: 7/14/2023
Subject: THE VOTER: The Voice of the League of Women Voters of Colorado
From: Beth Hendrix

VOLUME 38, NUMBER 6 | JULY 2023

Free Online Sunshine Law Guide

Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition put together a free online Guide to Colorado's Open Records and Open Meeting Laws.

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Anti-LGBTQIA+ State Legislative Trends

By Rebecca Goldman

This year we have seen an unprecedented number of legislative attacks on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQIA+) individuals, particularly transgender (trans) and non-binary youth. These attacks, accompanied and "justified" by false pathologizing narratives about LGBTQIA+ people have devasting consequences for the community's physical and psychological well being.

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Judge Blocks Part of Florida's Restrictive Voting Law Targeting Nonpartisan Civic Engagement Groups

by Shannon Augustus, LWVUS

Tallahassee, FL - On Monday, a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of portions of Florida's anti voter law, SB 7050. The order comes after three sets of plaintiffs including individual Florida residents, the Florida State Conference of the NAACP, Hispanic Federation, Poder Latinx, and the League of Women Voters of Florida (LWVFL), challenged the law in court and sought emergency relief.

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Colorado's new law giving politicians leeway to block people on social media may be much harder to use than it seems

by Jesse Paul of the Colorado Sun

The legislature's nonpartisan lawyers warn that House Bill 1306 won't necessarily prevent lawsuits and highlighted a host of potential loopholes in the policy.

A bipartisan bill passed this year by Colorado lawmakers that purports to let state officials block people on social media for any reason, as long as their accounts aren't "supported by the resources of state government," may be a lot harder to use than it seems - and may not even be constitutional.

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The League's work continues to be critical to the future of our democracy.

Americans are widely pessimistic about democracy in the United States, an AP-NORC poll finds

by Nicholas Riccardi and Linley Sanders - Associated Press July 13, 2023

Washington - Only about 1 in 10 U.S. adults give high ratings to the way democracy is working in the United States or how well it represents the interests of most Americans, according to a new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

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