The Colorado Off-Year Election Ballot

Colorado elections will be held on November 6. Most of the state will be conducting an all-mail ballot election. You can check on-line if you're registered to vote in Colorado. You can also find your voting places.

Concerning the Colorado ballot measures this election period, these are primarily taxes, taxes, taxes, and bonds, bonds, and more bonds. There doesn't seem to be any real polarizing issues this year for voters, such as should gays be allowed to marry or adopt children or any anti-abortion measures on the ballots.. If these two topics appear on the ballot again, and they most certainly will, it will be during a peak year when the country votes again for the President of the United States. The reason these issues aren't on the ballot is because very few people vote during the non-presidential voting years. This is why the "off years" are called the sneaky years. Tax increases and bond issues sneak through like wet slippery slides.

So far in Colorado, there are thirteen cities and towns asking for millions in bond issues. Denver, of course, is in first place. There are also tax increases, city council races and spending limits.

In Denver, Colorado, the voters are being asked to approve a half-billion-dollar tax increase, a $2.5 million levy and $550 million in bond projects. They are also being asked to improve Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver Botanic Gardens, and the Museum of Nature and Science.

The City of Las Animas has no races, so there will be no voting for anything at all this year.

The City of Commerce City, Colorado will be asked to increase taxes by an estimated $68,000.00 for the first full fiscal year (2008) and by such amounts as may be generated annually thereafter which shall be collected only from a hotel and motel accommodation tax commencing January 1, 2008.