Colorado Amendment 27, Campaign Contributions and Spending Limits Initiative (2002)
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| Topic Campaign finance |
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| Type Initiated constitutional amendment |
Origin |
Colorado Amendment 27 was on the ballot as an initiated constitutional amendment in Colorado on November 5, 2002. It was approved.
A “yes” vote supported placing limits on the amount of money that is able to be given to candidates and political organizations and creating provisions relating to spending limits by candidates. |
A “no” vote opposed placing limits on the amount of money that is able to be given to candidates and political organizations and creating provisions relating to spending limits by candidates. |
Election results
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Colorado Amendment 27 |
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890,390 | 66.50% | ||
| No | 448,599 | 33.50% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Amendment 27 was as follows:
| “ | An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning campaign finance, and, in connection therewith, reducing the amount of campaign contributions that persons may make to candidate committees, political committees, and political parties; establishing contribution limits for small donor committees; prohibiting candidate committees and political parties from making or accepting certain contributions; restricting the amount of contributions political parties and political committees may accept from certain sources; limiting contributions and expenditures that may be made by corporations or labor organizations; creating voluntary campaign spending limits; providing for a periodic adjustment of contribution and voluntary spending limits; specifying the treatment of unexpended contributions; requiring the disclosure of information about persons making electioneering communications above a specified amount; defining electioneering communications as certain near-election communications that unambiguously refer to a candidate and are targeted to voters; and incorporating into the constitution existing statutory provisions, with amendments, regarding definitions, deposits of contributions, limits on cash contributions, notice and disclosure of independent expenditures, reporting of contributions and expenditures, civil penalties, and duties of the secretary of state. | ” |
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 constitutional amendment.
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Footnotes
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