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(D) Kamala Harris
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
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30%
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August 29, 2012 08:14 PM UTC
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How many times did Dougie get TABOR on the ballot before it finally passed?
I for one never wish for draconian measurers to make the ballot. Then again, I’m not a gambler.
personhood has been on the ballot here before and was voted down decisively both times, about 3 to 1 last time. One can only imagine how badly it would have lost this time had they been able to scrape the required number of signatures together. This is something they couldn’t even pass in deep red Mississippi.
This is not something that’s building. It’s a fringe zombie. And it can be tied directly to almost all GOP candidates and indirectly to all of them via the platform they’re so proud of.
Mitt can say he supports exceptions for rape and incest in abortion policy but as long as he supports personhood he can’t say that with any credibility. Personhood, if it passed the Supremes scrutiny, would up end Roe v Wade and make all abortion, no exceptions, murder. Just as slaves no longer existing rendered the three fifths decision no longer operational, declaring fertilized eggs persons with full rights under the law would render Roe v Wade no longer operational.
And I know it’s not about the silver miner who was appointed to the Senate from Colorado and later tried to run for Pres o t VPres.
But TABOR sounded good.
This just sounds….not good.
because it drives D voters
Remember, the Eggmendment (3) campaign was saying how strong their signature drive was, even though it started late due to lawsuits.
I wouldn’t put it past Republicans to try to drive out the vote by saying that the initiative was suppressed unfairly. No basis in reality, but that’s never stopped them.
That’s a heck of a lot of duplicates, or improperly completed petition forms or what not.
But I’m sure Gessler didn’t shed any tears about disqualifying this ballot petition. He’d rather see Romney and Ryan push this through the SCOTUS with a few more right-wing appointments in the next 4 or 8 years.
Setting political calculations aside, I’m glad that after two massive failures on the ballot we won’t be seeing it again.
this cycle.
Is more important to me than the little fundraising and turnout bump we’d get from it. We’ll just have to work harder for GOTV.
They got the signatures before. They didn’t get them this year. The electorate is wising up–thank God/dess/es.
Voter supression.
Why no additional time to gather more signatures and correct the deficit, as happened this year with A64?
There’s a hard deadline of 90 days before the general election, which was August 6. The insufficiency cure process can’t be used to extend the signature-gathering deadline after that.
Personhood Colorado didn’t start the filing process until late November of 2011, following the defeat of personhood in Mississippi. By the time the legal challenges were concluded, they were too close to the hard deadline.
Had they filed in August or September of 2011, as they did in their previous attempts, they could have used the cure.
it conveniently eliminates the awkwardness of Mitt Romney being asked at the debates whether he supports the Colorado “Personhood” Amendment.
It also might really really piss off the abortion obsessed radicals which could have repercussions on how hard they work for establishment Republicans like Romney. Most of these pious Christians hate Obama so badly that it wouldn’t matter if Romney invested fetus disposal operations. They’d work their tails off for him just to beat Obama or maybe not. Could be a mixed blessing for the Republicans. Democrats had nothing to lose on this one and every advantage to gain in women voter awareness. No wonder it died at Gesllers hands.
Your view of this is probably right. If RomneyRyan wanted more of the Akin inspection I am sure Gessler would have found a way to get this on the ballot. The way it is the War on Women is getting in the way of ‘get the black guy out of the White House’ strategy.
The way this thing keeps coming back makes me think Dobson is involved somewhere.
Why let reality get in the way now? They’ve never paid attention to it before.
We will get a judge to do what the the legislature is just to cowardly to attempt and the voters don’t want.
The “Eggs aree People Three” folks should be able to get back on the ballot via a courtroom.
The SoS’s petition verification instructions tends to ignore previous court rulings that certain foibles by petition signers should be allowed.
Courts in the past have basically ruled that as long as the person who signed is an eligible voter, gave their correct address, and can be positively identified, the signature should be accepted.
There are several issues which the SoS throws out that the Courts will accept. One that comes to mind are the people who live at Denver addresses (their zip code is 802XX) but are not in Denver county. If they put the correct address, but call it Denver County when it is really Adams, Arapaho, or Jefferson, the courts have generally allowed it even though the SoS rejects it.
There is also the error rate of the people check ing the petitions. They are human, they make errors. One person may look at some chicken scratch on a petition and think it says one thing, and they don’t find that voter at that address. Then another person looks at it and thinks it says something totally different and is able to find it where he/she looks.
Out of 120,000 signartures turned in, it should not be too difficult for them to find 4000 that a court will accept.
Having said all of that, the opponents (otherwise known as sane people) should also be able to find more signature to disqualify than the SoS’s office accepted. One big one is forged signatures. The SoS’s does very little in the way of signature verification. There are dishonest petitions circulators out there who will try to make a fast buck by filling out the petitions lines themselves using a phone book or voter list. Weeding them out should increase the number of invalid signatures.
Bottom line: success in court in dependants on the veracity with which each sides double checks the results.
The measures that are definitely on the ballot in November are the Marijuana legalization initiative (the star of the ballot issue show in 2012) and the the civil service referrendum (important in terms of policy but boring politically) proposed by the state legislature.
As far as I can tell, there is one other initiative in play pending a signature count, the one with the summary title “Colorado Congressional Delegation to Support Campaign Finance Limits”. I haven’t heard how many if any signatures were submitted for it. Since a pass or a fail would in either case be merely symbolic for that one, I don’t really care.
Of course, there can be local ballot issues too.
I guess they turned in 176,000 signature on August 6 when they need 82,000. This is quite a bit more than the 121,000ish signatures that the Personhood group submitted so they can survive a much higher rate of invalidation. The personhood group validated about 73% of their signatures; Colorado Fair Share that submitted the other batch needds only about 47% of their signatures to be valid. So, I suspect that the campaign finance issue will make it onto the ballot as well and that an announcement of that fact will come soon.