The Colorado Baseball Commission, led by banking executive Larry Varnell, was successful in getting Denver voters to approve a 0. 1 percent sales tax to help finance a new baseball stadium.

Colorado voters allowed Cripple Creek to establish legalized gambling in 1991.

The last attempt, the Pico Act of 1859, was passed by the California State Legislature, signed by the State governor, approved overwhelmingly by voters in the proposed Territory of Colorado and sent to Washington D. C. with a strong advocate in Senator Milton Latham.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

In 2004, the voters of Colorado Springs and El Paso County established the Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority ( PPRTA ) and adopted a 1 % sales tax dedicated to improving the region's transportation infrastructure.

An amendment to the Colorado state constitution (" Amendment 2 ") that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to recognize gay and lesbian citizens as a protected class was passed by Colorado voters in a referendum.

Latino voters proved largely uninterested in voting reform ; some of that resistance was blamed on the extreme opposition to the measure voiced by the Roman Catholic bishop of Colorado.

Fifteen states — Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming — have semi-closed primaries that allow voters to register or change party preference on election day.

On November 7, 1972, in a statewide referendum, Colorado voters rejected a bond issue to fund the hosting of the 1976 Winter Olympics.

This rejection by Colorado voters followed a trend in the western states to blame California-style " mindless development " for the urban growth problems experienced in states like Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Oregon.

The games were originally awarded to Denver in May 12, 1970, but a 300 percent rise in costs and worries about environmental impact led to Colorado voters ' rejection on November 7, 1972, by a 3 to 2 margin, of a $ 5 million bond issue to finance the games with public funds.

* Colorado for Family Values, the organization behind Colorado's anti-gay constitutional amendment, Amendment 2, approved by the voters in 1992 and later overturned by the US Supreme Court ;

His agenda was helping senators with current Colorado budget issues and answering questions of Colorado voters.

Efforts to ban circus animals in cities like Denver, Colorado have been rejected by voters.

In Colorado, voters rejected Amendment 46 ( or the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative ) by a very slim margin.

A fan contest, drawing 33, 288 voters, was then held to determine the team's name.

From then on, most Republican candidates for local and statewide offices sought the endorsement of Bob Jones III and greeted faculty / staff voters at the University Dining Common.

Both UMNO and the MCA were nervous about the possible appeal of Lee's People's Action Party ( then seen as a radical socialist party ) to voters in Malaya, and tried to organise a party in Singapore to challenge Lee's position there.

Once approved by Parliament, the bill was then presented to voters in a referendum, and approved by 64 % of those voting in 16 March 2003.

Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the Country Party, and then adopted the name the National Country Party in 1975.

For example, under a PR voting system if 30 % of voters support a particular party then roughly 30 % of seats will be won by that party.

If voters are explicitly allowed to abstain from rating certain candidates, as opposed to implicitly giving the lowest number of points to unrated candidates, then a candidate's score would be the average rating from voters who did rate this candidate.

Consider a system in which voters can vote for any candidate from any one of many parties ; suppose further that if a party gets 15 % of votes, then that party will win 15 % of the seats in the legislature.

Three Texas voters challenged the election in a federal court in Dallas and then appealed the decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, where it was dismissed.

He then added that there was not any widespread desire for reform: he indicated a recent survey of working-class voters that showed that only a third of them wanted to reform or abolish the Lords, with another third believing the Lords were an " intrinsic part of the national traditions of Britain ".

If X would have won had S not been one of the nominees, and if ( most of ) the voters who prefer S over W also prefer X over W ( either S > X > W or X > S > W ), then S is a spoiler.

By then, the YDs had begun to lose influence in the party, as more black voters separated from the Machine and supported independents.

The proposed amendment must then be passed by a majority of the state's voters at a referendum.

If Alice is preferred by more voters then she is the winner of that pairing.

Other parties, such as the Libertarian Party of New York, and the Green Party of New York, and others, now seek ballot access by, first, getting a gubernatorial candidate on the ballot via petition ( by collecting 15, 000 valid signatures of registered voters ), and then by getting 50, 000 votes for that candidate on their line.

" It listed the alleged Northern violations of the constitutional rights of the South, then warned southern voters to expect forced emancipation of slaves in the near future, followed by their complete subjugation by an unholy alliance of unprincipled Northerners and blacks, and a South forever reduced to " disorder, anarchy, poverty, misery, and wretchedness.

The first county election was held on March 1, 1823, with 61 voters participating to elect the first three county commissioners — William Offield, James Blevins and John McCollough — who then ordered that the first jail and courthouse be built.

The voters can then vote on whether or not to recall the incumbent governor, and on the same ballot, they can vote a potential replacement.

If a majority of the voters in the election vote to recall the governor, then the person who gains a plurality of the votes in the replacement race will become governor.

In the prologue to her autobiography Untamed and Unashamed, Hanson cites the Howard government's adoption of her policies as an attempt to win back One Nation voters to the Liberal and National parties, stating " the very same policies I advocated back then ... are being advocated today by the federal government ".

The Republicans, first under Richard Nixon, then later under Reagan, were able to corral these voters with promises to be tough on " law and order ".

* If every voter's preference between X and Y remains unchanged, then the group's preference between X and Y will also remain unchanged ( even if voters ' preferences between other pairs like X and Z, Y and Z, or Z and W change ).

A two-story brick courthouse was then built, using the $ 10, 000 bond passed by the voters.

These new black voters were staunchly Democratic ; since then, the parish has been a Democratic stronghold.