Advance Colorado Institute represented a Douglas County resident in this lawsuit against liberal state legislators to end a secret voting scheme at the Capitol and to stop the violation of Colorado’s Open Meeting Laws by Rep. Bob Marshall and the rest of the legislators. Democrat legislative leadership and individual legislators repeatedly refused to provide documents and records to the public surrounding their “quadratic voting system.” These records are required to be publicly available as part of Colorado’s Open Meetings Laws. The quadratic voting system allowed the Democratic caucus to secretly rank bills for years before they were given a hearing. Each legislator’s votes were hidden, and no one provided the records when CORA requests were made. This lawsuit challenged the rampant secret voting and asked the court to require that the caucus have public meetings when votes are taken, as required by state law. Advance Colorado was successful in this case.
