How Amendment 85’s Requirement for Simple Ballot Language Could Help Progressives

By Deep Singh Badhesha Amendment 85, which was put on Colorado’s 2026 ballot by dark-money group Advance Colorado, is just two sentences long. If it’s approved, future ballot questions would have to be written in plain language at no more than an eighth-grade reading level, and any state laws that force specific wording into a citizen initiative’s title must comply with those standards. The heart…