Denver's Clerk & Recorder office is gearing up to provide a forum for citizens to understand how recent federal policies could potentially reshape the way Coloradans vote. According to Denver Clerk & Recorder, the office is pulling in community leaders and subject matter experts to help the community dig into the implications of the SAVE Act and other legislative proposals on the state's mail ballot voting model.
One of the main concerns appears to be that federal policies might inadvertently restrict access to voting. At the public discussion set for the first week of June at the Denver Press Club, panelists including Denver Clerk & Recorder’s advisor Ben Schler, ACLU’s Jen Samano, and a League of Women Voters representative will lay out both the safeguards currently in place and the risks new legislation might pose. It’s a chance for voters to grasp the nuts and bolts of their electoral system, free of charge.
A second event will build on the momentum, bringing stories and perspective into the dialogue with a networking and panel discussion at the Denver Central Library. This time, the focus will shift, not just on legislative impacts, but on how these changes might follow on the heels of historic struggles for suffrage, an issue particularly close to the panelists, including COLOR Latina’s Dusti Gurule and Alison Friedman from The Women’s Foundation of Colorado. They will join Bianka Emerson, from Colorado Black Women for Political Action, in a candid conversation that dives into history and speaks to their advocacy work.
