Review and Comment Hearing for Initiative #225
Legislative Council and Legal Services staff walked proponents of proposed Initiative #225, the 'Colorado Election Integrity Protection Act,' through a review-and-comment hearing in which staff flagged that the measure gives directions to change the law rather than actual statutory text and does not actually amend existing law — one of a long list of conflicts with the state election code and both constitutions.
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“Yes, and I did want to clarify that and it sounds extreme, but I did have support originally. The treasonous election engineering would have had the death penalty. I did an ex vote. It did have support. I would say it was at 60%. But there was some pushback. So ultimately I took it out just to make sure that we're at, you know, the highest level that this has a very high chance of having passing.”
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Sign in to subscribeGive me one second. Testing. One, two. Test, test. Testing. Maybe sometimes it's not recording. Testing. Okay, we're gonna take it from the top, but we are broadcasting. All right. So sorry, one last time. It is Thursday, January 29th at 102pm we're here for the proposed initiative measure 2025, 26, 225 concerning election procedures and voter identification. If we could just go around, say her name for the record. High Hamza, State Legislative Council Staff Nicole Myers, Legislative Legal Services Michael Scott from the second Proponent for this initiative, Hazard Mobit Espinosa. I identify as Missy Espinosa, proponent perfect section 140 of 151 of the Colorado Revised Statutes requires the Directors of Legislative Council Staff and the Office of Legislative Legal Services to review and comment on initiative petitions to propose laws and amendments to the Colorado Constitution. We hereby submit our comments and questions to you regarding the appended proposed initiatives. The purpose of the statutory requirement of the Directors of Legislative Council Staff and the Office of Legislative Legal Services is to provide comments and questions intended to aid designated representatives and the proponents they represent in determining the language of their proposal and to avail the…
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