CO Right-to-Work Foes Sue to Block Ballot Issue

Rocky Mountain News: A group challenging the right-to-work ballot initiative has filed a lawsuit against its backers, as well as the secretary of state, alleging a "pattern of massive fraud" that should keep the issue from going to voters. The group, called Protect Colorado's Future, says thousands of signatures collected for the initiative were duplicates, came from unregistered voters or had false addresses. The right-to-work measure, to be known as Amendment 47, would change the state Constitution by doing away with the current process that allows employees to vote on whether they want to set up an all-union shop. Such arrangements require all workers covered by collective-bargaining contracts to contribute financially in return for being represented by a union. The secretary of state's office certified the measure in late April by using the process specified by law, sampling 5 percent of the signatures. The secretary of state's office determined that 69 percent of the signatures in the sample were valid. The secretary of state's office applied that percentage to the 136,608 signatures and then presumed that 94,546 were valid. That put the measure 18,499 above the minimum necessary. The group also alleges two violations of ballot-initiative law. It claims that some of the people who certified the petitions as notaries public were not actually notaries and that the petitions were not numbered before the signatures were collected.

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