Colorado Ballot Measures.

[brutal]

With all the hubub surrounding POTUS, I didn't see much mention of the shitstorm we have coming with all the ballot measures that passed save a few quick mentions about 115 and 118 I caught in the other thread.

Say hello to the end runs around TABOR/Gallagher with (IMHO) higher property taxes coming, paying for family leave, and letting women kill 22 week old babies. Appears they haven't called a few yet?

It's interesting, but possible I guess, that people don't vote every issue? The numbers don't line up. SMH.




113 - National Popular Vote
Yes



Yes
1,543,768
52.17%


No
1,415,415
47.83%


Percent In (89.29%)




114 - Restore Grey Wolves


Yes
1,478,713
50.32%


No
1,460,145
49.68%


Percent In (89.29%)




115 - Ban Late-Term Abortions
No



Yes
1,218,589
41.12%


No
1,744,953
58.88%


Percent In (89.29%)




116 - Reduce State Income Tax
Yes



Yes
1,702,576
57.48%


No
1,259,423
42.52%


Percent In (89.29%)




117 - New Enterprise Requirement


Yes
1,480,534
52.46%


No
1,341,458
47.54%


Percent In (89.29%)




118 - Family and Medical Leave
Yes



Yes
1,681,622
57.18%


No
1,259,091
42.82%


Percent In (89.29%)




76 - Require Citizenship to Vote
Yes



Yes
1,867,999
62.92%


No
1,100,635
37.08%


Percent In (89.29%)




77 - Local Gaming Limit Approval
Yes



Yes
1,732,585
60.07%


No
1,151,833
39.93%


Percent In (89.29%)




B - Repeal Prop Tax Assess Rates
Yes



Yes
1,639,117
57.39%


No
1,217,176
42.61%


Percent In (89.29%)




C - Charitable Gaming Conduct


Yes
1,482,140
51.9%


No
1,373,428
48.1%


Percent In (89.29%)




EE - Tobacco and Nicotine Tax
Yes



Yes
2,013,631
67.73%


No
959,224
32.27%


Percent In (89.29%)

[rondog]

Unreal.....

[Planner]

It is such a dichotomy to me to see voters on one hand vote for a tax reduction, then on the other hand, approve paid family medical leave and Gallagher repeal, which will raise taxes. I can only infer that most were uneducated on the issue/impact and went with the ?that sounds good to me? method.

I think we have a deeply lazy electorate these days. Just my opinion.


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[Irving]

I can't believe that the tobacco tax was passed.

[sroz]

One of the cable networks blamed the influx of Californians into Arizona for the Dem victories. Stating things got so bad in California, they left the state. It happened a while back and continues here in Colorado. This just shows they haven't learned their lesson wrt taxing themselves into oblivion. I expect property taxes will go up significantly.

Oh yeah....and the willingness to give up your vote and state's independence with the national popular vote.....

[mahkcod]

Oh yeah....and the willingness to give up your vote and state's independence with the national popular vote.....

100% agree [facepalm]

[Eric P]

Property tax growth is still limited by TABOR, but yes. Pure stupidity in CO voters.

[brutal]

Oh yeah....and the willingness to give up your vote and state's independence with the national popular vote.....

Did all the other (13?) states pass? I believe that had to happen. No doubt they picked 13 blue states...

[ray1970]

That?s the downfall to letting everyone have the right to vote. Nobody is educated on the pros or cons of any of the measures. Most likely don?t know anything about what they?re voting for or against yet their uneducated decision affects pretty much everyone in the state. If they think they know anything about the issues they?re making decisions about it?s probably because they saw some commercial from some organization that skewed the facts to fit their agenda.

[.455_Hunter]

Most likely don't know anything about what they're voting for or against yet their uneducated decision affects pretty much everyone in the state.

I try to be an informed voter, but have definitely skipped issues in the past when my knowledge on the subject was pretty much zero. The bingo question on this years ballot was approaching that criteria.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Notice they framed 113 as a "Statutory" measure rather than Constitutional -- it would have failed if considered a Constitutional measure. I don't see how they can justify it being statutory rather than constitutional given it proposes to change the way Colorado allocates its electoral college votes in a national election.

[kidicarus13]

So how should have Colorado residents voted? I'd like to compare my ballot to see if/where I went wrong.

[.455_Hunter]

I was actually surprised the "only a citizen" voting criteria passed pretty handily.

[ray1970]

I was actually surprised the "only a citizen" voting criteria passed pretty handily.

I thought the same thing.

Maybe next time they?ll let the wolves vote once they?re officially residents of Colorado.