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A Boulder ballot measure to shift off-cycle elections to even years — on the same day as state and federal elections — has won with overwhelming support. The measure passed on the November 2022 ballot with 63% support.

Mandatory voting would make for a more representative government, BBOP writes, but mandates alone won't solve all barriers to participation

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Republicans and Democrats weren’t the only ones on the ballot this Tuesday. Issues of policing, housing and clean energy were put before voters too.

A Boulder ballot question asks voters whether to increase the number of unrelated adults who are allowed to live in the same home.

A group of Boulder political organizers is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit from a candidate for city council on anti-SLAPP grounds.

“The current staff are really impacted by this work, partly because there’s not enough resources to do it all,” Kurt Firnhaber, director of the city’s Housing and Human Services department, told council members during the study session on April 27. The other three proposals, which weren’t universally supported but were ultimately approved, included creating a pilot ambassador program that would provide more “eyes on the ground” for law enforcement; funding two unarmed park rangers...