The Secretary of State鈥檚 office says the Personhood amendment will not be on the Colorado ballot this November because supporters failed to gather enough valid signatures.
is filing a legal appeal to try and overturn that decision. It takes roughly 86,000 valid signatures for an initiative to make the ballot and Personhood Colorado fell short by 3800 signatures.
Jennifer Mason, the communications director for the campaign, says the secretary of state鈥檚 office discounted some signatures that were valid.
鈥淢any were invalidated because the notary made a small error with the date and those are still valid signatures so full petitions were thrown out. According to Colorado law, we鈥檙e going to be challenging to have those included.鈥�
Coloradans have similar Personhood initiatives before. The would define personhood from the beginning of biological development. The state must certify the ballot next week.
The Colorado Secretary of State鈥檚 office said it followed the law.
