When your ballot arrives in the mail in a few weeks, it will be the size of a phonebook. That’s due to the whopping 14 ballot initiatives which qualified for the November election, tying 2008 as the high water mark for Colorado’s initiative system. As I’ve spent the last several weeks rambling about, 8 of those 14 initiatives are sponsored by billionaire-backed conservative organization Advance Colorado, and every single one of those eight deserve a no vote. 

The eight Advance-backed measures are not the only initiatives on the November ballot which deserve your no vote, though. Three others – a slate of conspiratorial and bigoted measures backed by right-wing activist group Protect Kids Colorado – also warrant resounding rejection. In order to give you the most concise explanation of why each of the PKC initiatives should be discarded with as much disdain as possible, I turned to someone who knows more about the initiatives and the group behind them than anybody else I know: CTR’s own Jamie O’Rourke.