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COLORADO’S BALLOT IS FINAL People keep asking how I am voting on the statewide ballot measures. Here it is, plain and simple. ✅ AMENDMENT 81: YES If someone is charged with a violent crime and police cannot determine whether they are legally in this country, federal immigration authorities should be notified. ✅ AMENDMENT 82: YES You should have the right to use natural gas to heat your home, cook your food, or run your business. Government should not take that choice away. ✅ AMENDMENT 83: YES, WITH RESERVATIONS This puts the right to hunt and fish in the Colorado Constitution. It also says hunting and fishing are a preferred way to manage wildlife. I do not like all the power it still leaves with the state, but protecting hunting in our Constitution is better than leaving it completely exposed. ✅ AMENDMENT 84: YES Mail ballots should require voter identification. If information is missing or wrong, the voter will have a chance to fix it. ✅ AMENDMENT 85: YES Ballot questions should be written in plain English. Voters should not need a lawyer to understand what they are voting on. ✅ AMENDMENT 86: YES Politicians should not be able to redraw congressional districts in the middle of the decade just to help their own party. ❌ AMENDMENT 87: NO This ends Colorado’s flat income tax, creates tax rates as high as 8.4 percent, and increases state taxes by an estimated $2.7 billion every year. Government already takes and spends enough. ❌ PROPOSITION NN: NO They say it does not raise taxes. What it really does is let the state keep billions of dollars that could otherwise be returned to taxpayers through TABOR. The education promises focus on ten years, but the higher government spending limit is permanent. ✅ PROPOSITION 132: YES Fentanyl is killing people and destroying families. Dealers need stronger punishment, and people addicted to fentanyl need real treatment. ✅ PROPOSITION 133: YES Anyone who knowingly buys or sells sexual activity involving a child deserves life in prison. ✅ PROPOSITION 134: YES Girls deserve fair sports. Female sports should be based on biological sex. ✅ PROPOSITION 135: YES Children cannot understand or consent to permanent, life changing surgery. Adults can make their own decisions. Children need protection. ✅ PROPOSITION 136: YES This caps Colorado’s income tax rate at 4.4 percent. Government can lower the tax rate, but it cannot raise it above 4.4 percent. ❌ PROPOSITION 137: NO This lets the state keep about $175 million a year that could otherwise be returned through TABOR. It locks that money into government controlled conservation programs. In Colorado, “conservation” too often becomes restrictions, closed roads, and locked gates. There it is. 11 YES votes. 3 NO votes. Read them for yourself. Make your own decision. Then vote. #SeanPond