Amendment 85 (Constitutional)

Colorado already enacted a plain-language requirement for ballot titles this year (passed with 72% of the vote in 2022), allowing legally required voter disclosures to be rewritten in clear, accessible language. Initiative 234 unnecessarily puts an undefined eighth-grade reading standard into the Constitution and goes much further by prohibiting statutes from mandating language in initiative ballot titles.This means that voters would see less information about how a tax measure hits their own wallet and state/local budgets. We recommend opposing it because we believe voters should have more information about what's on their ballot, not less.