MAGA Republicans attack democracy in Boulder - YES on 2E

By Eric Budd, published in the Boulder Daily Camera:

Across the country, MAGA Republicans are working to restrict our right to vote. The tactics include reducing early voting in Iowa, suing to block mail voting in Pennsylvania, and removing polling places to force people to wait in line for hours to vote in Georgia. Our democratic right to vote is under threat across the nation, and Boulder is not immune to GOP efforts to suppress the vote.

On Monday August 29th, the GOP candidate to represent Boulder in House District 10 filed a lawsuit to challenge the compliance of Boulder County’s election ballot drop boxes. The complaint “asked the court to issue an emergency injunction ordering [the Boulder County Clerk] to bring the District 10 drop boxes ‘into compliance with the laws,’ or to rule that the boxes cannot be used,” per Colorado Newsline.

The attempt to challenge the use of drop boxes is clearly timed to disrupt Boulder residents who will be voting in the 2022 midterm elections.

Here in Boulder and Colorado, we praise efforts to make it easier to vote. We support all-mail elections, weeks of early voting, and convenient ballot drop boxes across the city. Not only must we protect everyone’s right to vote, we must take opportunities to expand access to voting here at home.