Ballot Title Setting Board
2015-2016

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning the manner in which recall elections are triggered and conducted, and, in connection therewith, changing the number of recall petition signatures required to trigger a recall election from, for example, 25% of the votes cast at the last preceding election for all candidates for the position at issue to 5% of the active registered electors in the recall area, not to exceed 100,000; changing the required number of successor petition signatures to 0.25% of active registered electors in the petition area, not to exceed 5,000; limiting petition review that election officials may perform; prohibiting recalled officials and officials who have resigned during a recall process from being any official for six years; restricting recall from the same office for an official who has already defeated a recall effort; and prohibiting identification, reporting, or limitation of donations to recall campaigns and payments to recall petition circulators.

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning the manner in which recall elections are triggered and conducted, and, in connection therewith, changing the number of recall petition signatures required to trigger a recall election from, for example, 25% of the votes cast at the last preceding election for all candidates for the position at issue to 5% of the active registered electors in the recall area, not to exceed 100,000; changing the required number of successor petition signatures to 0.25% of active registered electors in the petition area, not to exceed 5,000; limiting petition review that election officials may perform; prohibiting recalled officials and officials who have resigned during a recall process from being any official for six years; restricting recall from the same office for an official who has already defeated a recall effort; and prohibiting identification, reporting, or limitation of donations to recall campaigns and payments to recall petition circulators?

Hearing January 20, 2016

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 11:30 AM

Rehearing February 3, 2016

Motion for Rehearing granted only to the extent that the Board made changes to the titles; denied in all other respects.
Hearing adjourned 10:46 AM.

Hearing May 27, 2016 on remand from the Colorado Supreme Court

Titles amended and set.
Hearing adjourned 2:33 PM

* Unofficially captioned “Public Accountability of Officials" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.