voting access

Colorado lawmakers have sent Governor Jared Polis a $36 billion budget package for next year. And a new law in Colorado will allow people who are displaced by natural disasters to continue voting in their hometown elections.

Colorado Democrats have blocked several bills from Republicans that aim to change how the state runs its elections. And Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is officially launching his campaign for a second term.

A new bill in the Utah Legislature is sparking fears of voter suppression.

Colorado secretary of state Jena Griswold has ordered Mesa County to stop using some of its voting equipment, after passwords to the machines were allegedly leaked online; Navajo Nation Leadership met with Utah Governor Spencer Cox last week in Salt Lake City.

Arizona Republic reporter Jen Fifield breaks down what's next in the unofficial recount of 2020 election ballots that supporters of former President Trump are pursuing.

Montana now prohibits anyone who receives a monetary benefit from collecting sealed absentee ballots. Advocates worry that could affect Native Americans and residents of assisted living centers.

The measure passed the Republican-controlled legislature and will overturn a 2006 measure that denied immigrants living in the U.S. illegally access to public benefits.

Voters on the state's Permanent Early Voting List — or PEVL — are automatically sent a ballot for every election in which they're eligible to vote. The new law takes the "permanent" out of the PEVL.

A Republican Arizona state senator broke ranks and voted against a GOP-backed measure that could remove tens of thousands of voters from the state's early ballot mailing list.

Colorado state lawmakers shelved five Republican voting bills this week that Democrats blasted as dangerous attempts to make it harder to vote.The Bureau…