Colorado Ballot and Amendment Information - 2026 Election
Mike Rosen's 2026 Colorado election ballot measure picks, Complete Colorado, 28 September 2026:
Amendment 81 - Law Enforcement Reporting Requirements to Federal Authorities
Recommendation: YES
... It would allow Colorado law enforcement agencies to cooperate with DHS and ICE... Currently, Colorado's "sanctuary" policies handcuff police and sheriffs from doing so...
Amendment 82 - Right to Natural Gas
Recommendation: YES
Common sense to curb anti-fossil fuel radicals.
Amendment 83 - Constitutional Right to Hunt & Fish
Recommendation: YES
Of course.
Amendment 84 - Mail Ballot Voter Identification
Recommendation: YES
Requires mail voters to provide a signature and identification number. Discriminates against illegal voters, so progressives will call it racist.
Amendment 85 - Plain-Language Ballot Questions
Recommendation: YES
Requires all ballot questions to be written in understandable language (not lawyer jargon) at no more than an 8th grade reading level...
Amendment 86 - Congressional Redistricting
Recommendation: YES
Would prohibit congressional redistricting unless approved by the Congressional Redistricting Commission and the Supreme Court.
Amendment 87 - Graduated Income Tax
Recommendation: NO
Would replace Colorado's flat income tax, in place since 1987, with progressive income tax rates. Ever since Democrats gained one-party rule in Colorado, government spending has been spiraling out of control... this is yet another tax increase, and a mammoth one at that... and none of it subject to TABOR refunds...
Proposition NN - State Public K-12 Education Funding
Recommendation: NO NO
Another scheme to drive up government spending and reduce TABOR refunds. Some of it's earmarked for public schools, so "it's for the kids." (Code for: it's for the teacher unions.)
Proposition 132 - Penalties for Fentanyl Crimes
Recommendation: YES
Discourages fentanyl sales, use, and related felonies; stiffens sentences.
Proposition 133 - Penalties for Human Trafficking of a Minor
Recommendation: YES
Would further deter this heinous crime...
Proposition 134 - Male and Female Participation in School Sports
Recommendation: YES
Restricts participation on sports teams to members of the same biological sex, except for teams specifically designated as co-ed...
Proposition 135 - Prohibit Certain Surgeries for Minors
Recommendation: YES
Prohibits sex reassignment surgeries on minors and bans government funding...
Proposition 136 - Income Tax Rate Cap
Recommendation: YES
This is the antidote for Amendment 87 ("Graduated Income Tax," above). Prop 136 would cap the individual and corporate income tax rate at the current level of 4.4% for all...
Proposition 137 - Designate Sporting Goods Sales Tax Revenue for Conservation
Recommendation: NO
Another nitpicking sales tax...
Ballot Measures for the People's Democrat Socialist Republic of Denver.
Recommendation: NO on all
Denver voters are about to elect a communist to the U.S. House of Representatives. Anything sensible on the ballot will lose anyway.
Don't give Jeffco more of your money until it proves it deserves your trust, NotYetJeffco: Vote No on 5A. Vote No on 5B.
Complete Colorado articles on Colorado 2026 ballot amendments
Complete Colorado’s 2026 election ballot guide roundup
Jefferson County voters face tax hike barrage on November ballot
Jeffco schools asking $133 million more from taxpayers
The ballot questions Colorado ranchers should read twice:
Amendment 87 and Proposition 136: Your Income taxes: Vote NO on 87 and YES on 136.
Proposition NN: Your Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) refund: Vote NO.
Amendment 83: Right to hunt and fish: Vote YES.
Amendment 82: Right to natural gas: Vote YES.
The case for ‘no’ on Centennial 2A tax hike
Ballot Issue 7A: Higher taxes on tap for Front Range municipalities
Amendment 82: Why Coloradans need a natural gas guarantee
Amendment 83: The conservationist case for hunting and fishing
Colorado media, state government tilt scale for Amendment 87
Amendment 87: Progressive taxes and the Bo Nix problem
Amendment 87: How the Broncos play into Colorado’s tax fight
The perpetual tax hike hidden in Colorado’s Amendment 87
New Jersey a warning against Colorado’s Amendment 87
Progressive income tax cooks Colorado’s golden goose - Amendment 87
Amendment 87: A long-term tax increase for all Coloradans
Colorado media paints incomplete picture on Amendment 87 impact
Misinformation shields true impact of Colorado Amendment 87
Amendment 87: Myth busting Colorado’s ‘millionaire’ tax hike
Colorado voters to decide life sentences for minor sex trafficking - Proposition 133
Guest editorial: The case against Colorado’s Proposition 137
The bodily integrity case for yes on Colorado’s Prop 135
Proposition NN: A recipe for Colorado budget volatility
School districts tee up tax hikes for Colorado’s November ballot
10 reasons to reject the Front Range rail tax
Judicial Retention Questions
Meet the four Dem-picked Colorado justices who kicked Trump off the ballot, New York Post.
William W. Hood III is currently up for retention. The other three are: Monica Márquez, Melissa Hart, Richard L. Gabriel.
You can ask your favorite AI questions about judges, such as: "is judge Rebecca Freyre democrat or republican". DuckDuckGo AI Search Assist responded as follows:
- Judge Rebecca Freyre is a Democrat, as she was appointed by Governor John Hickenlooper, who is a member of the Democratic Party.
- Judge Elizabeth L. Harris is listed as a Democrat on an account of the 2018 Colorado election judges ballot.
- Judge Katharine Lum is affiliated with the Democratic Party, as she was appointed by Governor Jared Polis, who is a Democrat.
- Judge Pax Moultrie is a nonpartisan judge on the Colorado Court of Appeals.
- Judge Karl L. Schock is registered as a Democrat.
- Judge Grant T. Sullivan is affiliated with the Democratic Party.
- Judge Chantel E. Contiguglia is a Democrat, as she was appointed by Governor Jared Polis, who is a member of the Democratic Party.
- Judge Ryan Loewer is affiliated with the Democratic Party, as he was appointed by Democratic Governor Jared Polis.
- Judge Meegan Miloud is a Democrat.
- Judge Andrew Poland is a Democrat.
- Judge Christopher Rhamey is a Democrat, as he was appointed by Governor Jared Polis, who is a member of the Democratic Party.
- Tamara Russell is a nonpartisan candidate.
- Judge Christopher Zenisek is not publicly affiliated with a specific political party.
- Judge Sara Garrido is a Democrat, as she was appointed by Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, in 2020.
- Judge Corinne Magid is affiliated with the Democratic Party, as she was appointed by Democratic Governor Jared Polis.
- Lynn Melton is a Democrat.
What’s on your 2026 Colorado ballot: The seven judges every voter sees, Rocky Mountain Voice:
Every one of the seven was appointed by a Democratic governor. Three by John Hickenlooper, four by Jared Polis.
Retain the justice and he serves 10 more years. Retain an appeals judge and the term is eight years...
Denver District Judge Sarah B. Wallace held a five-day trial and found by clear and convincing evidence that Trump engaged in insurrection as Section 3 uses the term. She then ruled Section 3 does not reach the presidency and denied the petition. The Colorado Supreme Court reversed that second part.
Trump was never criminally charged with insurrection...
Six months after taking the bench, Moultrie wrote Nash v. Mikesell. The decision held that Colorado’s civil immigration detainer statutes are not preempted by federal law, that a 287(g) agreement has to comply with state law, and that the parts of Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell’s agreement with ICE authorizing detainer-based arrests are invalid...
Schock wrote the April 2024 decision in Coomer v. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., which let Eric Coomer’s defamation claims over 2020 election statements proceed against the Trump campaign, Sidney Powell and others. Coomer was Dominion Voting Systems’ director of product security and strategy.
Applying Colorado’s anti-SLAPP law, Schock held Coomer had shown a reasonable likelihood of success.
The division threw out the civil conspiracy claim as to the defendants who appealed it...
