Colorado Efficiency Gap in Congressional Districts Initiative (2018)
| Colorado Efficiency Gap in Congressional Districts Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Redistricting measures | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Colorado Efficiency Gap in Congressional Districts Initiative was not on the ballot in Colorado as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have required that congressional districts in Colorado have an efficiency gap of less than eight percent.[1]
The proposed initiative did not define efficiency gap. Professors Nicholas Stephanopoulos and Eric McGhee developed the concept.[2] According to Stephanopoulos and McGhee, the concept "represents the difference between the parties’ respective wasted votes in an election, divided by the total number of votes cast."[3]
Text of measure
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The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
Jason Legg and Scott Cadiz submitted the initiative to the Colorado Legislative Counsel for review and comment on March 29, 2017. On April 12, 2017, the counsel offered comments.[1] Compliance with these recommendations is not required. The next step is for proponents to submit a draft to the Colorado secretary of state, who will convene a title board to evaluate whether the initiative meets the single-subject rule and write a ballot title.
The number of signatures required for a successful petition is equal to 5 percent of the total number of votes cast for the office of secretary of state in the preceding general election. The same number of signatures is required for constitutional amendments, statutes, and referendums. In 2018, the number of signatures required for an initiated state statute is 98,492. In Colorado, petitioners have six months to collect signatures after the ballot language and title are finalized. The Colorado Constitution says that signatures must be filed three months before the election at which the measure would appear. In 2018, three months before the November election is August 6.
The measure did not qualify for the November 2018 ballot because it had either (a) never been cleared for signature gathering, (b) was abandoned by sponsors, or (c) otherwise reached a certain stage in the initiative process, but did not make the ballot.
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Colorado Legislative Counsel, "Voter Registration Through Public Entities," accessed April 3, 2017
- ↑ Washington Post, "Wisconsin’s gerrymander being struck down should scare Republicans nationwide," November 23, 2016
- ↑ University of Chicago, "Partisan Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap," accessed April 3, 2017
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