Invalid Signatures Keep Colorado Personhood Off the Ballot in November

[Playinghardball]

Horrified by the Republican platform as we are we sometimes laugh at them individually. There is a certain level of hilarity to be had from their complete denial of reality and watching them combat cognitive dissonance on a grand scale warms the cockles of my heart. Too, amid the bad news there is always some good. Like the news yesterday from Colorado, the state Jason Salzman at RH Reality Check called “America’s personhood Petri Dish.”

Yes, women’s reproductive rights are alive in Colorado. There will be no third personhood amendment on the ballot- not this year – not Initiative 46 – and not only because beer magnate Joe Coors declined to get behind this one. Two previous such amendments have been voted down at the polls: Amendment 48 in 2008 by 73-27 percent and Amendment 62 in 2010 by 70-30 percent.

This one would likely have gone the way of the buffalo as well; 100,000 fewer people voted personhood in 2010 than in 2008 so the writing was on the wall even in this Red State. The amendment is a fanatic’s dream: “(1) Purpose. In order to affirm basic human dignity, be it resolved that the right to life in this constitution applies equally to all innocent persons. (2) Effect. The intentional killing of any innocent person is prohibited.”

http://www.politicususa.com/invalid-signatures-colorado-personhood-ballot-november.html

[Robb]

1. LOL

To be precise, according to LifeNews, “The amendment fell 3,859 signatures short of the requirement and will not be on the November ballot.”

That may not sound bad, but in reality it is much worse: You see, 86,105 signatures were required. They “got” 106,119, which is more than enough – if they are valid.

Which the state determined more than enough of them were not.

The State of Colorado rejected 23,873 signatures as invalid. By my math, that is 21 percent of the signatures.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Do they have time to try again this cycle?

I know it won't pass. They do too. That's not the reason they're trying to get it on the ballot. They need to get their RW extremist to the polls. Many of them don't like Romney, and may not bother to show up without something to lure them in.

[MatthewStLouis]

5. Yep. It's what they do: fire up the base with looney social issues. /nt

[mom2threegirls]

3. So...

In a state of over 5 million people, they couldn't get 86,000 people to support this? Kind of tells you something.

[hifiguy]

4. The very definition of irony.