Colorado Referendum A, also known as the Voter Approval - Constitutional and Statutory Amendments Act, was a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment on the November 5, 1996 election ballot in Colorado, where it was defeated.
Election results
| Colorado Referendum A (1996) |
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| Result | Votes | Percentage |
 d No | 787,134 | 59.11% |
| Yes | 544,543 | 40.89% |
Election Results via: The Colorado Legislative Council
Text of measure
The language that appeared on the ballot:
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An amendment to articles V and XIX of the constitution of the state of Colorado, concerning ballot measures, and, in connection therewith, requiring voter approval of proposed constitutional amendments by sixty percent of the votes cast thereon, permitting, until January 1, 2003, a simple majority of votes to approve amendments to amend or repeal any provision that was previously adopted with less than sixty percent of the votes cast thereon, prohibiting the general assembly from amending or repealing any law enacted by the initiative within four years of adoption unless approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house of the General Assembly, and requiring that initiated and referred measures to amend the Constitution be submitted to the electors at a general election and not at an election held in an odd-numbered year.[1]
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