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2008 Colorado Amendment 46

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Field	Value
name	Amendment 46
title	Discrimination and Preferential Treatment by Governments
date	November 4, 2008
country	Colorado
yes	1,102,046
no	1,138,134
total	2,240,180
map	[[File:2008 Colorado Amendment 46 results map by county.svg	300px]]
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For Against Amendment 46, also known as the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, was a proposed initiative on the Colorado ballot for the state during the 2008 U.S general election. If ratified, Article II of the Colorado Constitution would have stated:

The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.

Controversy

The proposed initiative was sponsored by Californian Ward Connerly. In April, 2008, a Colorado group sued, claiming that over 69,000 signatures on the ballot petition were invalid. Some citizens also claimed that they signed the petition through voter fraud.

Governor Bill Ritter opposed the amendment, along with the Colorado Council of Churches.

Petition company

National Ballot Access was hired to manage this petition drive.

Result

Aftermath

Initiatives with the same language have been introduced and approved in five other states, including California (1996), Washington (1998), Michigan (2006), Nebraska (2008), and Arizona (2010); Colorado was the first state where it was defeated. On December 17, 2010 the University of Colorado at Boulder released a report analyzing the factors that led to the defeat of Amendment 46. According to the study, "...Coloradans overwhelmingly intended to support affirmative action on Election Day; arguably, were Amendment 46 a clearly worded referendum on attitudes toward affirmative action, it would have failed by a much wider margin: 66 to 34 percent." The report also found that (a) many voters were confused by the initiative, (b) voters who followed the measure in the media were more likely to oppose it, and (c) proposed alternative initiatives in support of equal opportunity contributed to the measure's defeat.

References

David Montero (April 24, 2008). "[http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/apr/24/suit-filed-over-amendment-46/ Suit filed over Amendment 46]", ''[[Rocky Mountain News]]''.
Blake Wesley (April 16, 2008). "[http://www.electionunspun.org/issues/local-elections/234-colorado-anti-affirmative-action-legislation-amendment-46 Colorado Anti-Affirmative Action Legislation Amendment 46] {{webarchive. link. (2008-10-10 ", electionunspun.org.)
Jerd Smith (September 29, 2008). "[http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/sep/29/ritter-amendment-46-undercuts-colorado/ Ritter: Amendment 46 'undercuts Colorado']", ''Rocky Mountain News''.
Associated Press (June 10, 2008). "[http://cbs4denver.com/local/Affirmative.Action.Measure.2.745216.html Group Opposes Anti-Affirmative Action Measure]{{dead link. (August 2017)
Dan Hayes [http://www.minutemanhq.com/state/read.php?chapter=CO&sid=822 Denver Ballot Proposal A Success] ''The Minutemen Civil Defense Corps''
[https://theunionnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/unions-may-lose-labor-state.html Unions may lose a labor-state] ''The Union News'', April 10, 2008
Buescher, Bernie. (June 29, 2009). "Official Publication of the Abstract of Votes Cast for the 2008 Primary 2008 General". [[Secretary of State of Colorado]].
Michele Moses, et al (September, 2010). "[http://www.civilrights.org/publications/colorado-46/ Investigating the Defeat of Colorado's Amendment 46: An Analysis of the Trends and Principal Factors Influencing Voter Behaviors.] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-10-13 ", Leadership Conference on Human and Civil Rights.)
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