ScopeProposed amendment
What happens to conflicting statutory wording?
The proposal would bar a statute from interfering with the plain-language requirement by mandating wording before, after, or within an initiative’s ballot title.
Our explanation · Sources below
The evidence
1 excerpt01From the original record
“NO STATUTE MAY INTERFERE WITH THIS PROVISION BY MANDATING LANGUAGE PRECEDING, FOLLOWING, OR IN A BALLOT TITLE OF AN INITIATIVE.”
Proposed Article V, Section 1(5.6), second sentence
Colorado Secretary of State
Initiative #234 Final TextHow to read this
This is the second sentence of the proposed constitutional subsection. Read it alongside the first sentence’s plain-language and reading-level requirements.
What to keep in mind
This is not a promise that every ballot-title dispute will disappear or that every statutory disclosure will be removed. The text sets a rule; how a particular conflict is resolved is a separate legal question.