Ba
llot History
Year:
1996
Ballot Number:
15
Short Title:
Campaign Finance
Ballot Title:
Shall there be 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 on lobbyists?
Election Results:
Adopted
Votes For
:
928,148
(
65.8%
)
Votes Against:
482,551
(
34.2%
)
Type of Change:
Statutory
Initiative/Referendum:
Initiative
Bill/Resolution #:
Election Results - SOS:
Categories:
Elections