A secret ballot system at Colorado’s statehouse is quietly killing bills & raising transparency concerns

Democrats who control the state legislature are increasingly using a survey they fill out in secret to help determine whether bills live or die. The results are kept from the public, raising questions about transparency and potential violations of the state’s sunshine law.

It’s called quadratic voting. State Sen. Chris Hansen, D-Denver introduced it as an experiment on the House Appropriations Committee in 2019, when several big bills were competing against each other for funding.