A last ditch effort from conservatives to block Amendment 87, the graduated income tax ballot measure before Colorado voters this year, was rejected Wednesday by a Denver judge.
A Republican activist filed a lawsuit against the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office in September, arguing that the initiative shouldn’t have been placed on the November ballot because dozens of paid signature gatherers for Amendment 87 didn’t follow the state’s registration rules.
The lawsuit said state elections officials should have invalidated any voter signatures collected by those improperly registered signature gatherers, which would have prevented Amendment 87 from having enough signatures to qualify for the ballot…