It's time to do election homework.
Colorado has this neat practice. Every election, we spend a ton of taxpayer money to compile, print, and mail to every voter, a little booklet of information describing the various ballot issues. It's the "Colorado Blue Book."
This Ballot Measures for Dummies® is necessary because Colorado's petition process for getting a measure on the ballot is relatively easy. Every special interest group in the State tries to get their concerns addressed by Constitutional Amendment, which explains why our Constitution is such a hacked up mess of populism.
Most of us accept this as a more or less annoying game that plays out every election season. We value the Initiative Process, so we put up with all the bullshit amendments that it produces, and we pay for the convenience of having the "nonpartisan research staff" explain the bullshit just in case we miss it.
This is nontrivial. There are 14 proposed Constitutional Amendments on the ballot in November.
That's a lot of homework. . . .
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