CCRI Headed For The Ballot

The Ballot Title Board has approved the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative for the 2008 ballot, over the objections of opponents who claimed that the meaning of “preferential treatment” was unclear and that people could believe it is possible to give preferences to people of one race without discriminating against people of other races.

The Ballot Title Board disagreed that banning discrimination was different from banning preferential treatment, holding that CCRI’s operative language — “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin” — does not violate the state’s “single-subject” requirement.

Opponents, predictably, say they will appeal.

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