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Our call — vote NO
The measure
This is a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment. Amendments 81–86 require 55% of the vote to pass. It governs off-cycle (mid-decade) congressional redistricting: any new congressional districts proposed outside a scheduled redistricting year must be approved by the Colorado Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission and adopted by the Colorado Supreme Court, after at least three public hearings, and it prohibits off-cycle changes that intentionally favor a political party or unnecessarily divide communities of interest, per the Blue Book summary.
What YES does
A YES vote locks mid-decade map changes behind commission approval, supreme court adoption, public hearings and an anti-gerrymandering rule.
What NO does
A NO vote continues the current requirements, under which congressional districts are changed every ten years and no special off-cycle approval process exists.
The math
The Blue Book's fiscal analysis, as reproduced in the guide cited below, identifies no change to any tax, TABOR refund, or revenue destination for this measure. No dollar fiscal estimate is published for it.
OUR CALL
Our call: no call.
This is a procedural guardrail, and both readings are honest ones: it restrains mid-decade partisan map-rigging, and it also adds a court-adoption layer to a process the constitution already schedules once a decade. It changes no tax, right or mandate, and its effect depends entirely on a future legislature attempting an off-cycle redraw. Purely procedural — no call.
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Sources
- Ballotpedia, List of Colorado ballot measures — https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_Colorado_ballot_measures
- Colorado 2026 State Ballot Information Booklet (Blue Book), Legislative Council Staff, as reproduced in the Colorado 2026 ballot measures guide — https://whipplewood.com/insights/colorado-2026-ballot-measures-guide/
Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.
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