By Quentin Young | editor
“Colorado voters should know that nothing has changed about their ability to vote in November.”
– Steve Schleiker, El Paso County clerk
Volunteers at the Denver Clerk and Recorder’s office atrium check and organize primary ballots on June 30, 2026. (Photo by Andrew Fraieli/Colorado Newsline)
By Lindsey Toomer
Colorado election officials expect the November election to proceed without interruption despite attempts from the Trump administration to change how states use mail ballots. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed to move forward an executive order from President Donald Trump that would upend mail voting. “The most important thing voters should know is that the decision (Monday) doesn’t change anything for November,” said Matt Crane, executive director of the Colorado County Clerks Association.
Phil Weiser, Colorado attorney general, speaks to supporters in Denver in June. (Photo by Andrew Fraieli/Colorado Newsline)
By Sara Wilson
The tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, agreed Wednesday to pay over $17 billion in a nationwide settlement in a case centered on youth social media addiction. The deal includes over $615 million over nine years for Colorado, which was one of 51 states and territories to sue the company in 2023. The action ends a federal trial in the U.S. Northern District of California that began last week, where Colorado and a handful of other states argued that Meta intentionally designed its social media apps to be addictive to children and knew about those risks without telling the public.
A ballot drop box sits outside the library at Virginia Avenue Park in Santa Monica, California, on July 14, 2026. (Photo by Greg LaRose/Louisiana Illuminator)
By Jacob Fischler
Democrat-led states and voting rights groups re-filed lawsuits Wednesday to block the Trump administration from executing a new regulation to restrict mail-in voting, while a federal judge lifted a nationwide pause on the policy in line with this week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that handed the administration a procedural win. Democratic officials in 24 states and the District of Columbia launched a new federal lawsuit challenging a U.S. Postal Service rule establishing federal vote-by-mail standards as unconstitutional and a coalition of voting rights advocates filed a supplemental complaint against the USPS rule after the Supreme Court struck down a similar suit as premature.
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