Ballot initiatives - The Durango Herald

Ballot issues: Raise the Bar vaults to victory; aid-in-dying wins

DENVER – Colorado voters Tuesday night backed establishing a presidential primary and making it more difficult to amend the state constitution, as part of nine wide-ranging issues that were ...

DATE: Nov 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

End-of-life ballot issue stirs passion on both sides

Big money and claims of misinformation mark campaigns

DATE: Oct 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Amendment 71 creates odd bedfellows

Effort to toughen constitutional amendment process creates strange coalitions

DATE: Oct 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Proposition 106 would allow aid-in-dying medication in Colorado

Opponents concerned about abuse, coercion from family members

DATE: Oct 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Proposition 108 would open state, local primaries to unaffiliated voters

DENVER – Colorado voters are being asked to allow unaffiliated voters to participate in non-presidential primary elections. The statutory Proposition 108 question reads, “Shall th...

DATE: Oct 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Proposition would create a presidential primary

Ballot item comes after chaotic March caucuses

DATE: Oct 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Amendment 71 would make amending state constitution more difficult

Colorado voters are being asked to make it harder to amend the state constitution. The constitutional Amendment 71 question – known as Raise the Bar – asks, “Shall there be an ame...

DATE: Oct 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Tobacco tax hike dollars would go to health programs

Opponents say changing formula would be difficult

DATE: Oct 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Amendment 70 seeks to gradually raise minimum wage

Voters asked to raise the floor to $12 an hour by 2020

DATE: Oct 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

ColoradoCare would create universal health care payment system

Opponents say residents would end up paying more for health care

DATE: Oct 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Amendment would benefit ranchers, rafting companies

Measure would give exemption on using government-owned property

DATE: Oct 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Amendment aims to strike slavery language from Colorado Constitution

Archaic law concerns enslavement as punishment

DATE: Oct 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

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