Colorado’s November ballot is almost finalized. As of today, ten initiatives are set to bulk up the ballots Coloradans will cast this fall. While those initiatives might look like unrelated efforts by groups of concerned citizens, in reality most of them have been sponsored and funded by billionaire-backed right-wing organization Advance Colorado, which specializes in using Colorado’s ballot process to change state laws in ways the Democratic-majority legislature would not. Soon, they will start the process of trying to trick voters into supporting them.
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