Colorado Ballot 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.
Complete Colorado articles on Colorado 2026 ballot amendments
Complete Colorado’s 2026 election ballot guide roundup, Complete Colorado, 5 September 2026.
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
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
