OFFICIAL BALLOT GENERAL ELECTION LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2008 SAMPLE BALLOT SCOTT DOYLE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS: To vote for the candidate(s) of your choice, completely fill in the OVAL to the left of the candidate(s) name. To vote for a person not on the ballot, write in the name of the candidate in the space provided and fill in the OVAL to the left of the write-in line. To complete your ballot, please review both sides. If you tear, deface or wrongly mark this ballot, return it to an election judge to get another. VOTE LIKE THIS "Ballot issues referred by the general assembly or any political subdivision are listed by letter, and ballot issues initiated by the people are listed numerically. A 'yes' vote on any ballot issue is a vote in favor of changing current law or existing circumstances, and a 'no' vote on any ballot issue is a vote against changing current law or existing circumstances." C.R.S. 1-40-115(2) FEDERAL OFFICES STATE OFFICES COUNTY OFFICES JUDICIARY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS STATE SENATE - COUNTY COMMISSIONER - COURT OF APPEALS (Vote for One Pair) DISTRICT 14 DISTRICT 2 (Vote Yes or No) (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Shall Judge Jerry N. Jones of the Colorado Court of Appeals be retained in office? John McCain/Sarah Palin Matt Fries Steve Johnson Republican Republican Republican Barack Obama/Joe Biden Bob Bacon Randy Eubanks YES Democratic Democratic Democratic Chuck Baldwin/Darrell L. Castle STATE REPRESENTATIVE - COUNTY COMMISSIONER - NO Constitution DISTRICT 49 DISTRICT 3 Bob Barr/Wayne A. Root (Vote for One) (Vote for One) COURT OF APPEALS Libertarian (Vote Yes or No) Cynthia McKinney/Rosa A. Clemente Kevin Lundberg Tom Donnelly Green Republican Republican Shall Judge Gilbert M. Roman of the Colorado Court of Appeals be retained in Jonathan E. Allen/Jeffrey D. Stath James Ross Roger Hoffmann HeartQuake '08 Democratic Democratic office? Gene C. Amondson/Leroy J. Pletten STATE REPRESENTATIVE - JUDICIARY YES Prohibition DISTRICT 51 James Harris/Alyson Kennedy (Vote for One) JUSTICE OF THE COLORADO NO Socialist Workers SUPREME COURT Charles Jay/Dan Sallis Jr. Ken Bennett (Vote Yes or No) COURT OF APPEALS Boston Tea Democratic (Vote Yes or No) Shall Justice Allison H. Eid of the Colorado Alan Keyes/Brian Rohrbough Don Marostica America's Independent Republican Supreme Court be retained in office? Shall Judge Diana L. Terry of the Colorado Court of Appeals be retained in office? Gloria La Riva/Robert Moses STATE REPRESENTATIVE - YES Socialism and Liberation DISTRICT 52 Bradford Lyttle/Abraham Bassford (Vote for One) NO YES U.S. Pacifist Frank Edward McEnulty/David Mangan John Michael Kefalas JUSTICE OF THE COLORADO NO Unaffiliated Democratic SUPREME COURT Brian Moore/Stewart A. Alexander Bob McCluskey (Vote Yes or No) COUNTY JUDGE, LARIMER Socialist, USA Republican (Vote Yes or No) Shall Justice Gregory J. Hobbs Jr. of the Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez STATE REPRESENTATIVE - Colorado Supreme Court be retained in Unaffiliated DISTRICT 53 Shall Judge Christine A. Carney of the office? Larimer County Court be retained in office? Thomas Robert Stevens/Alden Link (Vote for One) Objectivist UNITED STATES SENATOR Donna Gallup YES YES (Vote for One) Republican Randy Fischer NO NO Democratic Bob Schaffer DISTRICT ATTORNEY - COURT OF APPEALS COUNTY JUDGE, LARIMER Republican 8th JUDICIAL DISTRICT (Vote Yes or No) (Vote Yes or No) Mark Udall (Vote for One) Democratic Shall Judge Steven L. Bernard of the Shall Judge Ronald L. Schultz of the Larimer Colorado Court of Appeals be retained in County Court be retained in office? Bob Kinsey Larry R. Abrahamson Green Republican office? Douglas "Dayhorse" Campbell YES YES American Constitution NO NO Write-In REPRESENTATIVE TO THE 111th COURT OF APPEALS UNITED STATES CONGRESS - (Vote Yes or No) DISTRICT 4 (Vote for One) Shall Judge David M. Furman of the Colorado Court of Appeals be retained in Betsy Markey Democratic office? Marilyn N. Musgrave YES Republican NO COURT OF APPEALS (Vote Yes or No) Shall Judge Robert D. Hawthorne of the Colorado Court of Appeals be retained in office? YES NO STATE OF COLORADO STATE OF COLORADO STATE OF COLORADO STATE OF COLORADO Amendment 46 Amendment 50 Amendment 53 Amendment 56 Shall there be an amendment to the SHALL THERE BE AN AMENDMENT TO Shall there be an amendment to the Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning a THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION Colorado Revised Statutes extending the Colorado Constitution concerning health prohibition against discrimination by the CONCERNING VOTER-APPROVED criminal liability of a business entity to its care coverage for employees, and, in state, and, in connection therewith, REVISIONS TO LIMITED GAMING, AND, IN executive officials for the entity’s failure to connection therewith, requiring employers prohibiting the state from discriminating CONNECTION THEREWITH, ALLOWING perform a specific duty imposed by law, and, that regularly employ twenty or more against or granting preferential treatment to THE LOCAL VOTERS IN CENTRAL CITY, in connection therewith, conditioning an employees to provide major medical health any individual or group on the basis of race, BLACK HAWK, AND CRIPPLE CREEK TO executive official’s liability upon his or her care coverage to their employees; excluding sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the EXTEND CASINO HOURS OF knowledge of the duty imposed by law and of operation of public employment, public the state and its political subdivisions from OPERATION, APPROVED GAMES TO the business entity’s failure to perform such education, or public contracting; allowing the definition of "employer"; allowing an INCLUDE ROULETTE AND CRAPS OR duty; and allowing an executive official who exceptions to the prohibition when bona fide employer to provide such health care BOTH, AND MAXIMUM SINGLE BETS UP discloses to the attorney general all facts qualifications based on sex are reasonably known to the official concerning a business's coverage either directly through a carrier, necessary or when action is necessary to TO $100; ADJUSTING DISTRIBUTIONS TO company, or organization or acting as a self- CURRENT GAMING FUND RECIPIENTS criminal conduct to use that disclosure as an establish or maintain eligibility for federal affirmative defense to criminal charges? insurer, or indirectly by paying premiums to a funds; preserving the validity of court orders FOR GROWTH IN GAMING TAX health insurance authority to be created or consent decrees in effect at the time the REVENUE DUE TO VOTER-APPROVED YES pursuant to this measure that will contract measure becomes effective; defining "state" REVISIONS IN GAMING; DISTRIBUTING with health insurance carriers, companies, to include the state of Colorado, agencies or 78% OF THE REMAINING GAMING TAX and organizations to provide coverage to NO departments of the state, public institutions REVENUE FROM THIS AMENDMENT FOR employees; providing that employees shall of higher education, political subdivisions, or STUDENT FINANCIAL AID AND not be required to pay more than twenty governmental instrumentalities of or within CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION AT Amendment 54 percent of the premium for such coverage the state; and making portions of the COMMUNITY COLLEGES ACCORDING for themselves and more than thirty percent measure found invalid severable from the TO THE PROPORTION OF THEIR Shall there be an amendment to the of such coverage for the employees' remainder of the measure? RESPECTIVE STUDENT ENROLLMENTS, Colorado constitution concerning restrictions dependents; financing the costs of AND 22% FOR LOCAL GAMING IMPACTS on campaign contributions, and, in administering the health insurance authority YES IN GILPIN AND TELLER COUNTIES AND connection therewith, prohibiting the holder and health care coverage provided through THE CITIES OF CENTRAL CITY, BLACK of contracts totaling $100,000 or more, as the authority with premiums paid by HAWK, AND CRIPPLE CREEK indexed for inflation, awarded by state or NO employers to the authority and, if necessary, ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF local governments without competitive such revenue sources other than the state INCREASED TAX REVENUE FROM bidding ("sole source government Amendment 47 general fund as determined by the general VOTER-APPROVED REVISIONS IN EACH contracts"), including certain collective CITY OR COUNTY; AND REQUIRING ANY bargaining agreements, from making a assembly; directing the general assembly to Shall there be an amendment to the INCREASE IN GAMING TAXES FROM THE contribution for the benefit of a political party enact such laws as are necessary to Colorado constitution concerning LEVELS IMPOSED AS OF JULY 1, 2008 or candidate for elective office during the implement the measure; and setting the participation in a labor organization as a TO BE APPROVED AT A STATEWIDE term of the contracts and for 2 years effective date of the measure to be no later condition of employment, and, in connection ELECTION, IF LOCAL VOTERS IN ONE thereafter; disqualifying a person who makes than November 1, 2009? therewith, prohibiting an employer from OR MORE CITIES HAVE APPROVED ANY a contribution in a ballot issue election from YES requiring that a person be a member and REVISION TO LIMITED GAMING? entering into a sole source government pay any moneys to a labor organization or to contract related to the ballot issue; and any other third party in lieu of payment to a YES imposing liability and penalties on contract NO labor organization and creating a holders, certain of