By Michael Karlik | Colorado Politics
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday confirmed a proposed ballot initiative to ban gender-affirming care for children will not appear on the November ballot, while another measure that would revamp the state’s primary elections and implement ranked-choice voting remains eligible.
The justices reached their conclusions on narrow procedural grounds, revolving around the deadline for seeking Supreme Court review and the limited types of challenges the court may hear under existing law.
Both initiatives arrived at the Supreme Court after consideration by the Title Board, the three-member body that screens citizen-initiated ballot measures. The board’s responsibility is to determine whether a proposed initiative contains a single subject, as the state constitution requires. If so, it sets a ballot title that appears before voters to describe the measure. Proponents are then eligible to collect signatures and place their measure on the ballot.