Colorado ballot measures: What is passing, failing and undecided – Denver Gazette

Colorado ballot measures: What is passing, failing and undecided  Denver Gazette

Colorado voters weighed more than just candidates this year, deciding on 14 statewide ballot measures ranging from constitutional amendments on taxes and natural gas to proposals on voter ID and transgender-related issues. Here’s where those measures stand as election officials continue counting votes. Colorado voters rejected a ballot measure that would have required local law enforcement agencies to communicate with federal authorities on immigration enforcement. Amendment 81, backed by Advance Colorado, would have required law enforcement agencies to notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement when they charge a person who is in the country illegally with a violent crime or when the individual has previously been charged with a felony.

Colorado voters rejected a measure to establish a constitutional right for consumers to buy natural gas for cooking and heating, and for distributors and utilities to sell it. Advance Colorado, a group that actively campaigned for several measures on the ballot, pushed the initiative. The Common Sense Institute of Colorado said 27 states have laws that limit policy restrictions on natural gas, while the remaining 23 do not. Colorado voters rejected a measure to add a right to hunt and fish to the Colorado constitution. Amendment 83 would have designated hunting and fishing as the preferred way to manage wildlife populations. The proposal to require citizens to show identification by mail