This Mom Wanted Voters to Pay Attention to an Election. Instead, She Got Sued.

Natalie Johnson / @nataliejohnsonn / February 04, 2016

A Colorado mother got caught in a legal battle after buying two ads in a local newspaper to encourage voters to brush up on the candidates running for school board.

Terry Holland says she wanted to make other parents aware of their options because no one had run against an incumbent in the previous election. To spread the word, she placed the ads, listing the names of candidates without advocating for or against any one contender.

What happened next, she says, is that school system officials used Colorado’s campaign finance system to sue her on two counts of violating the law in what she says was an attempt to silence her for the remainder of the election in the Byers School District.

Read the whole story at The Daily Signal...