Colorado voters are being tricked into signing billionaire-backed petitions (Opinion)
- Posted on August 6, 2026
- By The Denver Post
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In brief
Colorado's petition system raises serious concerns about voter manipulation and corporate influence. With paid signature-gathering legal in 16 states, circulators can exploit voters by promoting seemingly contradictory initiatives simultaneously. This practice enables wealthy interests to weaponize the ballot initiative process, potentially deceiving citizens about competing policy agendas while collecting lucrative per-signature compensation.
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Colorado voters are being tricked into signing billionaire-backed petitions (Opinion)
Why would one volunteer be circulating two petitions that seemed so ideologically opposed? Colorado is one of 16 states where it’s legal to pay petition-circulators per signature.
