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While early and mail-in voting continues, I once again have made a couple small updates to Ben’s Colorado Ballot Guide 2008 - including a new link. Check it out, and share the word with any voters still uninformed or undecided about the 14 issues on the statewide ballot.

More links and information have been added to my guide to the 2008 Colorado ballot. If there are any initiatives or referenda on which you’re undecided, I invite you to please check it out.

If you have yet to visit my page with information and recommendations on the long list of initiatives and referenda on Colorado’s 2008 ballot, now is the time to stop by. After all, thanks to the clever and capable stylings of Colorado cartoonist Ben Hummel, the page is now illustrated!

With four measures pulled off the ballot and a new guide to link to, I have updated my Colorado Ballot 2008 page this morning. Please be sure to check it out for the latest.

Despite Governor Bill Ritter’s denial, a state official acknowledged to the Rocky Mountain News that Ritter’s administration used official taxpayer resources to invite people to an anti-Amendment 46 campaign event (H/T Face The State):

Even as Ritter announced his opposition, Amendment 46 backers complained his administration had used state resources to campaign against the measure, which would be a violation of state law.

Ritter denied that. But later, his director of economic development, Don Elliman, acknowledged his office had used state time to invite people to a Sept. 22 forum on Amendment 46, which featured a well-known opponent of such measures, but no one who supported them.

“We blew it,” Elliman said. “It would appear from the wording on the invitation that we were taking a position. The governor can take a position, but that doesn’t mean we can spend state money and time on it.”

Apparently state officials are looking for a way to make up for the transgression of the state’s Fair Campaign Practices Act. Citizens need to hold their feet to the fire, and ask themselves why the governor is lining up special interest groups to oppose equal rights.

Due to the unrivaled success of providing a guide to Colorado’s 2006 ballot measures, and an even larger slate of Initiatives and Referenda to consider, I give you Ben’s guide to the Colorado ballot for 2008. The author is solely responsible for the opinions contained therein.

I came across a great site that features anti-democratic tactics of Leftist organizations: blocking efforts to collect signatures, frivolous lawsuits, and other threats to free speech. Occasionally highlighted is the efforts of a group called By Any Means Necessary to try to shut down Colorado’s Civil Rights Initiative. The radical fraud group ACORN is also regularly featured there. Stay tuned to this site, especially as the election approaches.