October 27, 2008 4:38 PM
Withdrawn Colorado ballot measures cost state, study shows
Colorado spent more than $200,000 in printing costs and extra postage this fall because the deadline for withdrawing ballot measures comes too close to Election Day, according to a study from the University of Denver.
Amendments 53, 55, 56 and 57 were withdrawn by labor groups by an Oct. 2 deadline. But it was too late to keep them off the printed ballot.
DU's Center for Colorado's Economic Future offered some advice for the state legislature: rethink the law that allows ballot initiatives to be pulled as late as 33 days before the election.
November 4, 2008
2:44 PM
Jeff Mosteller writes:
Pulling the measures off the ballot the night before the election was STUPID, Who got the bill, Colorado voters or the Labor Unions ???
Does my YES vote on these things just go up in smoke, I have had this stuff crammed down my throat for so long now, I feel cheated somehow.
J. Mosteller