Insufficient signatures hampers initiative effort
A push for a ballot initiative to give Denver sheriff’s deputies enhanced arrest powers suffered a blow Tuesday when elections officials reported that more than half of the nearly 60,000 signatures collected on behalf of the effort were invalid. “The Denver Elections Division has found an insufficient number of signatures valid to place the measure on the ballot, therefore the division deems this petition insufficient,” Denver Clerk and Recorder Stephanie O’Malley wrote in a letter to the president of the Fraternal Order of Police, the union that represents deputies.