The 2026-07-07 Colorado Secretary of State Title Board refresh marks six statewide initiatives as On ballot (2026): #85, #95, #108, #109, #110, and #175. Earlier 2026-06-20 and 2026-07-01 captures had centered the current-ballot frame on five measures; the July 7 refresh adds #175, State Revenue Supporting Road Transportation, to the active official-status set.
This page is a source-discovery summary. It does not evaluate the measures or
infer common campaign support or opposition. The mechanism table below is a
source-custody and relationship-strength map, not a unified campaign analysis.
The 2026-07-01 targeted backfill mirrors the Secretary of State filing PDFs for the original five-measure set. The 2026-07-07 targeted #175 capture preserves its original, amended, and final text PDFs plus the #174/#175 draft variation chart. The July 7 result-page refresh also records the Title Board rehearing dispositions for #109 and #110. The July 9 current-ballot source-completion package adds Legislative Council detail and analysis documents for the six on-ballot measures and the road-revenue family. A July 10 TRACER committee-detail capture directly identifies RESTORE OUR ROADS as supporting proposed Initiative #175; the retained transaction slice separately supports the committee's bounded receipt and expenditure rows. A July 11 source-completion pass adds the Elections Division initial-review notice, registration correspondence, paginated filing history, and the January-report amendment chronology. A July 12 recapture finds the public complaint surface unchanged and preserves a current bulk slice identical to the retained July 9 transaction capture.
| Initiative key | Number | Legislative Council title | Measure type | SOS caption |
|---|---|---|---|---|
CO_INIT_2025-2026_85 |
85 | Penalties for Fentanyl Crimes | statutory | Penalties for Fentanyl Crimes* |
CO_INIT_2025-2026_95 |
95 | Law Enforcement Reporting Requirements to Federal Authorities | constitutional | Law Enforcement Reporting Requirements to Federal Authorities* |
CO_INIT_2025-2026_108 |
108 | Penalties for Human Trafficking of a Minor | statutory | Penalties for Human Trafficking of a Minor* |
CO_INIT_2025-2026_109 |
109 | Male and Female Participation in School Sports | statutory | Male and Female Participation in School Sports* |
CO_INIT_2025-2026_110 |
110 | Prohibit Certain Surgeries on Minors | statutory | Prohibit Certain Surgeries on Minors* |
CO_INIT_2025-2026_175 |
175 | State Revenue Supporting Road Transportation | constitutional | State Revenue Supporting Road Transportation* |
The six measures do not support one campaign-infrastructure classification.
They currently resolve into three evidence-distinct source stacks, and the
documented reuse of Blitz Canvassing and Victor's Canvassing is a negative
control against using a shared vendor as a campaign identity marker.
| Measure | Source node / intermediary | Documented mechanism | Observable flow | Evidence strength | Main unresolved field |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
#85 |
Michael Fields / Suzanne Taheri representative block; Blitz and Victor petition-entity listings | Title Board representation and licensed petition circulation | Procedural representation and circulation capacity; no measure-specific money flow resolved | direct for official representative and petition-entity rows; Advance association is source-layered | Current committee identity, payer, contract, invoice, and payment allocation |
#95 |
Michael Fields / Suzanne Taheri representative block; Blitz and Victor petition-entity listings | Title Board representation and licensed petition circulation | Procedural representation and circulation capacity; no measure-specific money flow resolved | direct for official representative and petition-entity rows; Advance association remains reported/contextual | Current committee identity, payer, contract, invoice, and payment allocation |
#108 |
Protect Kids Colorado issue committee; Erin Lee / Michele Austin; Taylor Petition Management; Pure Laughter | Committee-purpose, representative, petition-entity, and petition-printing records | Campaign-finance capacity, circulation infrastructure, and committee-level petition-printing spending | direct for named records; allocation of bundled committee spending to one measure unresolved | Taylor payment route, per-measure cost allocation, donor/accounting boundary, contracts |
#109 |
same Protect Kids stack; additional rehearing/counsel-service record | Same mechanisms plus legal-process filing | Same bundled campaign/circulation flows plus a documented legal-process trail | direct for named records; no control or cross-lane legal-strategy inference | Per-measure allocation, counsel scope, appeal/docket record, contracts |
#110 |
same Protect Kids stack; additional rehearing/counsel-service record | Same mechanisms plus legal-process filing | Same bundled campaign/circulation flows plus a documented legal-process trail | direct for named records; no control or cross-lane legal-strategy inference | Per-measure allocation, counsel scope, appeal/docket record, contracts |
#175 |
RESTORE OUR ROADS; COLORADO CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION donor label; Blitz Canvassing |
Issue-committee purpose, reported contributions, and canvassing expenditures | $2,838,000 reported from the exact coalition donor label into the committee and $1,650,000 reported from the committee to Blitz for canvassing |
direct reported TRACER rows and committee purpose | Underlying coalition donors, contracts, work allocation, cure/final disposition |
The July 13 TRACER negative-control screen found no committee-name match for
Fentanyl, Law Enforcement, or Federal Authorities on the refreshed
2025-2026 bulk or current live name surfaces. That is a bounded source gap,
not proof that no committee or differently named payer exists.
The same screen directly shows why vendor recurrence cannot fill the gap. The
COLORADO VOTER TRUST INITIATIVE paid Blitz $500,000 for SIGNATURE COLLECTION, but its purpose field names Initiative #362, not #85 or #95.
The COLORADO CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP FUND paid Blitz $179,200 and Victor's
$185,500 in non-amended CANVASSING rows, but its purpose is State House
candidate elections, not a ballot measure. These are same vendor records
across distinct mechanisms, not evidence of a shared committee, sponsor, donor,
strategy, or coordinated campaign.
| Initiative | Legislative Council analysis documents captured | SOS result page captured |
|---|---|---|
| 85 | text of measure; review and comment memorandum; fiscal summary; fiscal impact statement | raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-06-20-current/sos_results/85Results.html |
| 95 | text of measure; fiscal summary; fiscal impact statement | raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-06-20-current/sos_results/95Results.html |
| 108 | text of measure; review and comment memorandum; fiscal summary; fiscal impact statement | raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-06-20-current/sos_results/108Results.html |
| 109 | text of measure; review and comment memorandum; fiscal summary; fiscal impact statement | raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-06-20-current/sos_results/109Results.html |
| 110 | text of measure; review and comment memorandum; fiscal summary; fiscal impact statement | raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-06-20-current/sos_results/110Results.html; refreshed result page at raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-07-07-current-ballot-sos-cycle-refresh/sos_results/110Results.html |
| 175 | SOS original, amended, final text, and #174/#175 draft variation chart captured; Legislative Council text of measure, review and comment memorandum, fiscal summary, and fiscal impact statement captured |
raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-07-07-current-ballot-sos-cycle-refresh/sos_results/175Results.html; refreshed result page at raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-07-09-current-ballot-source-completion/sos_results/175Results.html |
raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-06-20-current/sos_titleboard/index-0682bd15a76b.html and raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-07-07-current-ballot-sos-cycle-refresh/sos_titleboard/index.html, plus captured SOS result pages listed above.85, 95, 108, 109, and 110, with linked PDF documents preserved under raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-06-20-current/documents/; refreshed July 9 detail pages and linked documents for #85, #95, #108, #109, #110, and road-revenue variants #126, #162, #163, #174, and #175 are preserved under raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-07-09-current-ballot-source-completion/.raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-07-01-current-ballot-sos-filing-backfill/ preserves 17 official filing PDFs and extracted text sidecars for the original five-measure current set. raw/datasets/colorado-initiatives/runs/2026-07-07-current-ballot-sos-cycle-refresh/ preserves #175 official filing PDFs and text sidecars.10 TRACER detail page directly states that committee 20255051292, RESTORE OUR ROADS, exists to support proposed Initiative #175. The corrected July 9 bulk-export slice separately preserves contribution and expenditure rows. The July 11 capture preserves the agency's initial-review notice and the filing-amendment chronology. Together they establish the formal committee-to-measure relationship, reported transaction flows, an initial agency plausibility/curability decision, and a later amended filing, but not sponsorship, ultimate donor source, control, coordination, contract performance, signature validity, an accepted cure, final violation, or voter effect.structured/initiatives.jsonl, structured/documents.jsonl, structured/status_observations.jsonl, and structured/colorado_initiatives.sqlite support discovery and lookup only.The March 4, 2026 Elections Division notice changes the complaint evidence
boundary. It is not a final merits decision, but it is more than the
complainant's allegation: under the notice's initial-review standard, the
Division found the complaint timely, found one or more potential violations
identified, found sufficient allegations for a plausible factual and legal
basis, and determined that one or more alleged violations might be curable. It
gave RESTORE OUR ROADS through March 18 to cure, explain substantial
compliance, or dispute the allegations.
TRACER filing history marks the January 15, 2026 report for the October
through December 2025 period as amended. The amendment selector records the
amended version as filed March 16, two days before the cure deadline. The
current filing detail shows $300,100.00 in contributions and $419,098.81 in
expenditures. Retained bulk rows account for the expenditure total as the
original $24.30 bank-fee row plus March 16 amendment rows reporting
$400,000.00 to Blitz Canvassing for CANVASSING SERVICES
and $19,074.51 to Cottrell Printing for PRINTING SERVICES. The contribution
amendment offsets and replaces the same $300,000.00 coalition row with an
address correction and no net contribution change.
| Date | Source event | Supported treatment |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-15 | Original report filed | Direct filing history and bulk-row evidence; $300,100.00 contributions and only the $24.30 expenditure row were then reported. |
| 2026-02-20 | Complaint filed | Direct evidence of an allegation, not a finding. |
| 2026-03-04 | Initial-review notice issued | Direct agency evidence that the allegations cleared the stated initial plausibility review and might be curable; not a final violation finding. |
| 2026-03-16 | January report amended | Direct filing-history and bulk-row evidence for the added canvassing and printing expenditures and contribution-address correction. |
| 2026-03-18 | Cure deadline in notice | Direct deadline evidence; cure submission and agency treatment remain missing. |
| 2026-07-11 | Public complaint surface recaptured | Displays Open, no disposition date, and no visible cure response or final disposition; source state may be incomplete or stale. |
| 2026-07-12 | Public complaint and bulk records recaptured | Complaint HTML is byte-for-byte identical to July 11; only the complaint and initial-review notice remain attached. The current bulk slice is byte-for-byte identical to the retained corrected slice. |
The timing is a documented chronology, not proof of causation. The available
records do not establish that the amendment was filed because of the complaint,
that it was the committee's formal cure response, that the Division accepted
substantial compliance, that the Open label is current, or that a final
violation occurred.
The July 12 recapture narrows the retrieval result but does not resolve the
case. No respondent cure document or final disposition is posted on the public
complaint surface. The absence is a public-record gap, not evidence that no cure
submission or agency decision exists. A complete case-file records request is
the smallest remaining source target.
Rule 23.3 adds an important custody boundary. A final agency decision, motion
to dismiss, Secretary of State order, or Elections Division administrative
complaint has a public-availability route when provided to the respondent.
Some respondent or investigative submissions covered by Rule 23.3.3, however,
are not retained after the agency no longer needs them for review,
investigation, prosecution, or appeal. A records request should therefore seek
the retained file without assuming that the complete cure packet still exists.
The captured TRACER committee detail directly states the purpose of active,
statewide issue committee 20255051292, RESTORE OUR ROADS, is TO SUPPORT PROPOSED STATE INITIATIVE #175, "STATE REVENUE SUPPORTING ROAD TRANSPORTATION." It lists a December 1, 2025 registration date, Michael
Hancock as registered agent, and Gwen Benevento as designated filing agent.
The name Michael Hancock is not sufficient to identify the registered agent
as the former Denver mayor.
Row-level review of the corrected bulk slice exposes the main reported money
mechanism. Seven included contribution rows from the exact donor label
COLORADO CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION total $2,838,000 under the
helper's amendment-accounting rule. Five non-amended expenditure rows to
Blitz Canvassing, dated December 16, 2025 through May
1, 2026, total $1,650,000 and are labeled CANVASSING SERVICES.
Additional rows identify consulting, legal, fundraising, printing, lobbying,
communications, and accounting payees. These are direct reported transactions;
they do not disclose underlying coalition donors, contract terms, work
performance, coordination, control, or campaign effect.
| Source | Target | Mechanism | Flow | Evidence strength | Source basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
COLORADO CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION donor label |
RESTORE OUR ROADS |
seven included contribution rows | $2,838,000 reported into the issue committee |
direct evidence | corrected TRACER bulk CSV |
RESTORE OUR ROADS |
Initiative #175 |
committee-purpose statement | formal campaign support relationship | direct evidence | July 10 committee detail |
RESTORE OUR ROADS |
Blitz Canvassing | five CANVASSING SERVICES expenditure rows |
$1,650,000 reported to the vendor |
direct evidence | corrected TRACER bulk CSV |
| Gwen Benevento | RESTORE OUR ROADS |
designated filing-agent role | filing and compliance administration | direct evidence | July 10 committee detail |
TRACER also lists complaint ED2026-10, filed February 20, 2026, with
subject FAILURE TO REPORT AN EXPENDITURE OR CONTRIBUTION ALLEGED. The July
11 source-completion section above supersedes the earlier complaint-only
boundary by adding the initial-review notice and amendment chronology. Cure
submission, agency acceptance or rejection, final disposition, and the current
meaning of the displayed Open status remain unresolved.
The July 9 source-completion package closes the narrow Legislative Council
reconciliation gap for #175 and the earlier road-revenue variants. It captures
Legislative Council detail pages for #126, #162, #163, #174, and #175;
all five carry the title State Revenue Supporting Road Transportation and
review_and_comment_hearing_held status in the parsed Legislative Council rows.
For #175, the retained Legislative Council documents include the text of
measure, review and comment memorandum, fiscal summary, and fiscal impact
statement.
The #175 fiscal impact statement shifts the next analytical table from a
campaign-first question to a public-revenue-flow question. Legislative Council
Staff estimates that the measure would obligate up to $1.02 billion in
FY 2026-27 and up to $2.09 billion in FY 2027-28 toward road
transportation, including General Fund, Highway Users Tax Fund, and other
transit-related cash-fund sources. It also estimates increased distributions to
county and municipal governments while noting that programs or agencies may see
reduced funding or need replacement funding if current uses do not align with
the measure.
The same July 9 follow-through preserved a corrected TRACER slice for
committee 20255051292, RESTORE OUR ROADS, with 31 contribution rows and
86 expenditure rows in 2026, accounting totals of $2,885,660.00 in
contributions and $1,870,571.13 in expenditures after excluding amended
original rows. This is direct TRACER evidence for the issue committee and its
bounded transaction slice. The July 10 committee-detail capture supersedes
the earlier identity gap by directly naming proposed Initiative #175 in the
committee-purpose field.
The July 7 SOS cycle refresh materially changes the current-ballot frame from
five official on-ballot measures to six. It directly marks #175, State Revenue Supporting Road Transportation, as On ballot (2026). The #175
result page states that the measure is a constitutional amendment and that the
55% approval requirement applies. The retained final text would add article X,
section 22, requiring state revenue collected to support road transportation
to be spent on road transportation, effective January 1, 2027.
The retained source cluster also shows that #175 should be handled as the
on-ballot endpoint of a road-transportation drafting lineage, not only as a
sixth current-ballot row. The July 7 structured SOS files list five initiatives
with the unofficial caption State Revenue Supporting Road Transportation:
#126, #162, #163, #174, and #175. Their current SOS statuses differ:
#126, #162, and #163 are Expired; #174 is Title set; #175 is On ballot (2026).
The preserved #174/#175 draft variation chart compares the road-revenue
versions across whether the proposal applies to enterprises, whether it has a
ten-year sunset, whether Highway Users Tax Fund allocation language applies,
whether federal money is included, and whether directly related design /
management / engineering costs and Colorado State Patrol costs are included.
Those rows support a provenance and policy-design comparison. They do not
identify campaign sponsors, donors, vendors, issue committees, petition payment
routes, coordination, control, or legal strategy.
The same refresh records the official Title Board rehearing disposition for the
Protect Kids measures: #109 was denied in its entirety at rehearing, while
#110 was granted only to the extent that the Board changed the title and
denied in all other aspects. This closes the result-page portion of the July 1
legal-process gap but not hearing-video, transcript, Supreme Court appeal,
campaign-finance, petition, or counsel-scope questions.
The backfill surfaced a route distinction that matters for future retrieval. The helper's computed 2025-2026index.html SOS cycle URL returned 404, while the exact filing PDF URLs already recorded in the June 20 documents.jsonl downloaded successfully. Treat a failed computed cycle-page route as a helper/source-route issue, not as evidence that current-cycle filing PDFs are missing.
The backfilled #109 and #110 rehearing motions add a legal-process layer to the Protect Kids stack. They directly support the existence of objector filings by Derek Haines and Rogena Sue Johnson, submission by Recht Kornfeld counsel, and certificate-of-service language naming Scott Gessler as counsel for the proponents. They do not prove the objections' merits, counsel scope, campaign control, coordination, sponsorship, or any link to school-board policy/litigation lanes.
#85, #95, #108, #109, and #110 were mirrored on 2026-07-01; #175 filing PDFs were mirrored on 2026-07-07. Remaining non-current-ballot SOS filing PDFs from the larger inventory may still be link-only unless separately backfilled.10 committee detail and retained transaction rows directly support a RESTORE OUR ROADS / #175 relationship, a donor-label receipt concentration, and named payee flows. The July 11 notice and filing records directly support an initial agency plausibility/curability decision and a March 16 amendment. Do not extend those records into an Advance / Protect Kids relationship, ultimate funding source, legal sponsorship, coordination, control, donor motive, contract performance, signature validity, accepted cure, final violation, complaint-to-amendment causation, voter intent, or implementation effect.