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Didn't Arizona do something like that recently?It was a wise choice in advertising to point out to the often confused and un-educated public that ecological and wildlife decisions should be made by CPW experts that have years of education, experience, and knowledge rather than leaving these decision up to public vote.
Looking county by county across Colorado, it is clearly evident that the dominate support for this and the previous wolf proposition were counties with big cities where voters have little knowledge base to make these types of decisions. Most of these citizens have no clue about the long-term negative ecological impacts and consequences from their decisions.
It is evident that until a statewide initiative is put into place that allows the CPW to solely make science-based wildlife management decisions that similar propositions will continue to be placed on public ballots.
The next step would be to put a proposition on the next ballot that allows the CPW to make these decisions and eliminates the ballot box.
Absolutely. The focus in CO should be a massive push to get something into state statute preventing ballot box biology in the futureThe next step would be to put a proposition on the next ballot that allows the CPW to make these decisions and eliminates the ballot box.
According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), managed mountain lion hunting has not hurt mountain lion populations—in fact, it has helped these species recover. There were only a few hundred mountain lions in Colorado in the 1960s; today there are 4,500.Proposition 127 is not a carefully worded regulation of hunting practices that ensures the critical principles of “fair chase.” It is a complete ban that would open up a slippery slope for all hunting across Colorado.
Hunting and fishing bans were considered in at least a dozen states in 2022. The worst of which was a ballot initiative in Oregon that would have criminalized hunting, fishing and farming. This radical proposal missed being added to the ballot in Oregon by only 20,000 signatures in 2022.
Ballot Box Biology, as we've recently seen in states like Colorado, is a real danger to science-based wildlife management. Currently Arizona could see ballot box biology on their ballot with ALL of the required signatures for a ballot initiative coming from Maricopa County alone. Prop. 134 would require ballot measures to receive support from registered voters from each of the 30 legislative districts in Arizona. Prop. 134 would ensure that all of Arizona’s communities have a say in what makes the ballot.
72% of the state votes have been counted and we have a 263K vote lead.Close, not quite. Still haven’t heard from all of Denver yet.
Holding my breath though..72% of the state votes have been counted and we have a 263K vote lead.
I am showing that 50% of the votes have been counted in Denver and thus far Yes votes are 30K above the NO votes. Even if this trend holds we are still up 260K votes as of right now, so if we gave up another 30K Denver votes we are solid.
The Denver Fur Ban and Slaughter House Closures - I believe have I read they had both been defeated.
Holding my breath though..
Yep. Zero reason it hasn’t been called yet.I'm surprised it hasn't been called yet. My math suggests it can't catch up if remaining Denver and Boulder Counties votes continue to break the same way, and those are the only two counties that can make a difference.
Boulder: ~82,550 votes remaining, at 59/41 in favor would be 48,705/33,845
Denver: ~283,118 votes remaining, at 57/43 in favor would be 161,378/121,740
That's a net gain for the yes side of 54,498 votes. The margin is still over 200k votes.