Proposed Initiative #31 (“State Income Tax Rate Reduction”) Qualifies For 2022 General Election Ballot

Denver, November 18, 2021 - The Elections Division of the Colorado Secretary of State’s office announced today that Proposed Initiative 31 (“State Income Tax Rate Reduction”) obtained the sufficient number of signatures and has qualified for inclusion on the 2022 general election ballot.

The “State Income Tax Rate Reduction” Initiative submitted 215,365 petition signatures, needing 124,632 valid signatures to qualify for inclusion on the 2022 ballot. After reviewing a 5% random sample of the submitted signatures, the Elections Division of the Secretary of State’s office projected the number of valid signatures to be 148,189, greater than 110 percent of the total number of signatures required for placement on the ballot. These requirements are outlined by Article V, Section 1 (3) of the Colorado constitution and 1-40-116 of the Colorado Revised Statutes.

Random Sample Verification Summary:

The full Statement of Sufficiency is available here. A calculation of sufficiency signatures from the random sample is available here. The text of the “State Income Tax Reduction” Initiative is available here.

A copy of the petition is on file with the Secretary of State’s office.