Democracy Wire

2022 was a productive Legislative Session for Colorado's democracy. Colorado Common Cause supported bills that will strengthen and protect our gold-standard election system and defended against bills that would degrade it. Check out our 2022 Legislative Summary!

Your Colorado Common Cause Team has been busy at the Capitol this week protecting Colorado voters and working to secure our state’s elections. Read below for an update on our work this week.

Colorado Common Cause loves our state’s voters, so it makes sense that we spent most of Valentine’s Day at the Capitol working to make voting safer and standing up against bad faith voting bills! On February 14th the House State, Civic, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee heard six bills related to elections and voting. We were there to support one and oppose three of these bills.  

The Independent Ethics Commission is the institution charged with providing guidance and enforcement of Colorado's ethics laws. Colorado Common Cause recently submitted this public comment on the Commission's proposed rules. We have strong concerns that the new rules will allow the Commission to operate with unprecedented secrecy outside of Colorado's Open Records Act and Open Meetings Law. We urge the Commission to promulgate new rules that more closely align with Colorado's open-government laws.