4-29-2017

Legislative Counsel Staff

BallotImpactEstimates.ga@state.co.us.

Re: Proposed initiative measure 2017-2018 #33, concerning Constitutional

Amendments; fiscal impact statement of sponsors.

https://www.scribd.com/document/346749837/Proposed-Initiative-
Measure-2017-2018-33-Fiscal-Impact-Statement-of-Sponsors

SPONSOR FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT

We believe there will be no negative fiscal impact as a result of this

Constitutional Amendment and most likely result in an overall savings with
respect to each ballot initiative filed after passage of this initiative.
Reasons for this assessment are as follows:

Currently, the Secretary of State must manually go through a

percentage of the statutory required signatures and verify that they are
registered voters; that the signature is correct; that the address is correct
and currently they must also manually verify that 2% of all the valid
signatures are from each senate district. We dont see any way of doing
that, and still complying with Constitutional requirements other than going
through all signatures submitted and figuring out the percentages from
each senate district. The costs for personnel to manually do this will be
substantial.

If our Initiative becomes law, the Secretary of State will have to

prepare a universal electronic signature page for each respective Initiative
submitted which should be minimal. And simple software will compare the
signature, address and number of signatures that the Secretary of State
already has in his data base. It should actually be able to account validity
of every signature as easily as it would be to verify a percentage as
required by the Constitution.

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Constitutional Amendments; fiscal
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 Need for Secretary of State personnel will be substantially reduced
to validate and count Initiative signatures.

CONCLUSION:

We believe there will be no negative financial impact over current

methods; and most probably will result in positive financial impacts over
current methods.

Submitted this 29th day of April, 2017,

/s/Peter Coulter /s/Robin Austin

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Constitutional Amendments; fiscal
impact statement of sponsors.