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Colorado Amendment 15, Contributions to Candidates Initiative (1996)
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| Topic Campaign finance |
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| Type Initiated state statute |
Origin |
Colorado Amendment 15 was on the ballot as an initiated state statute in Colorado on November 5, 1996. It was approved.
A “yes” vote supported placing limits on the amounts individuals, political committees, and political parties may contribute to candidates. |
A “no” vote opposed placing limits on the amounts individuals, political committees, and political parties may contribute to candidates. |
Election results
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928,148 | 65.79% | ||
| No | 482,551 | 34.21% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Amendment 15 was as follows:
| “ | An amendment to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning campaign reform, and, in connection therewith, limiting the amount of campaign contributions to candidate committees, political committees, and political parties; prohibiting candidate committees and political parties from making or accepting certain contributions; specifying who may contribute to a candidate committee; limiting the amount of unexpended campaign contributions that a candidate can carry over from one campaign to another campaign; creating voluntary campaign spending limits and attendant disclosure requirements; and reenacting, with amendments, current campaign reform law definitions and provisions regarding deposits of contributions, limits on cash contributions and expenditures, the prohibition on contribution reimbursement, uses of unexpended contributions, notice and disclosure of independent expenditures, reporting of contributions and expenditures, registration requirements for candidates and committees, civil and criminal sanctions and penalties, expenditures for political advertising, encouraging withdrawal from a campaign, home rule counties and municipalities, and contribution limits on state and political subdivisions and lobbyists. | ” |
Full Text
The full text of this measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
In Colorado, proponents needed to collect a number of signatures for an initiated state statute.
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Footnotes
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