Hey y’all! Welcome back to my week-long ballot breakdown. As I promised, I am continuing to sift through all these measures to help us look past the commercial noise and understand exactly what we are facing this year.
Next up on the stack is Amendment 85, which wants to force all future ballot measures to be written at an 8th-grade reading level. When I saw this one, my immediate reaction was: Get real! This is a firm NO for me.
Look, our ballots are already written in plain language. The state already has a process to ensure summaries explain what a measure does without being overly confusing. Forcing a rigid, automated formula onto complex legal and financial text is just unnecessary.
Worse, trying to dumb down the text might actually backfire by stripping out precise legal definitions that voters need to see to make an accurate choice. We don’t need to clog up our state constitution with a mandatory rule for a problem that doesn’t really exist.
Trust the system we have, keep it accurate, and do your homework!
If you want to read the current ballot titles and see the arguments surrounding Amendment 85 for yourself, look at the official facts right here:
Official Colorado Blue Book:Colorado General Assembly Blue Book Portal
Non-Partisan Breakdown:Colorado Newsline 2026 Voter Guide
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