Colorado Supreme Court keeps Amendment 87 on ballot

What the court decided

The Colorado Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit that sought to throw out the voter signatures used to place Amendment 87 on the ballot. The ruling leaves the measure on the ballot and allows election officials to count votes cast for or against it.

The challenge focused on the signatures that qualified the amendment for a statewide vote. By rejecting the effort to invalidate those signatures, the court left the amendment’s ballot status unchanged. The ruling means the legal challenge will not prevent voters from deciding the measure.

What it means for voters

Voters will continue to see Amendment 87 as a ballot choice and may mark a vote either for or against it. Election officials will include those votes in the count rather than treating the measure as disqualified because of the lawsuit.

The case dealt with whether the signatures placing Amendment 87 before voters should be thrown out. It did not turn the amendment into law or determine whether voters should approve it. Any effect of the proposal depends on the result of the public vote.

No candidate race is directly involved in the decision. The immediate consequence is procedural: Amendment 87 stays before voters, and the signature challenge will not stop the votes on it from being counted.