Proponents of proposed Initiative Measure 2025-26-225 — which would eliminate automatic voter registration and mail ballots for most voters, destroy all electronic voting machines, authorize citizen detention of suspected election law violators, and create new felony and misdemeanor offenses — appeared before Legislative Council Staff and Legislative Legal Services for a review and comment hearing. No vote was taken; the proponent acknowledged numerous provisions require amendment before the April Title Board deadline.
Staff's technical comments recommended standard Colorado statutory conventions using lowercase 'people.' Proponent 'Missy Espinosa' explicitly objected, stating 'I do think for the purposes of this act, we should capitalize the P in people when it's, if you're talking about it as, you know, the people in which power is vested in,' and identified this as 'the only one we have an objection to' among the technical comments. The second proponent also agreed on capitalizing 'People,' citing U.S. Supreme Court cases defining 'the people.'
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“I, when I talk about election fraud, remember I, I always come with, , , I always quantify what I'm saying. So the reason this whole thing is necessary, it's all based on my own examination of elections nationally as well as statewide. And so everything in here is to stop one of these ways that was utilized somewhere to rig the election. So it's important bring it back to its integrity where it should have been. So that's the goal”
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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 202526225 concerning election procedures and voter identification. If we could just go around and 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 public…
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