Colorado: Legislators try to make citizen initiative process more difficult
State lawmakers may once again ask voters to make it harder to get constitutional amendments on the ballot, an idea Coloradans rejected in 2008, The Denver Post reports. This time, though, there may be no attempt to encourage groups circulating initiative petitions to only change state statutes instead of the constitution. “This is a simplified Ref. O,” said Sen. Abel Tapia, D-Pueblo, referring to Referendum O, which voters shot down 52.5 percent to 47.5 percent in 2008.