Colorado voters will see Amendment 71 on their November 2016 ballot. It would say that a constitutional initiative needs the signatures of 2% of the voters in each one of the 35 State Senate districts. This newspaper editorial recommends a “no” vote, because such a law would make it virtually impossible to qualify a statewide constitutional initiative.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
EVERY house of EVERY State legislature has an EVIL and VICIOUS ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymander OLIGARCHY in control of it —
which will do ANY thing to stay in power.
The names of the robot hacks change BUT the EVIL systems continue.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Years ago in Missouri I was lobbying the state legislature to make it less difficult for third parties & independents to petition to get on the ballot. Many legislators were eventually sympathetic — as long as the legislation didn’t make it easier for initiative petitions!
And the few reps & senators who were deadset against any help for folks outside the two parties were much more upset with the notion of uppity citizens usurping the bailiwick of legislators.
K did you support Bill Johnson for the US Senate here in Missouri in 94 .Do you know Martin Lindstendt.