Coloradans will vote without knowing for sure who is behind four of the nine questions on the ballot. The two candidates to be Colorado's top election official have different ideas about what to do about the situation.
The people who put Amendments 60 and 61 and Propositions 101 and 102 on the ballot have never filed campaign-finance reports to show who paid for the petition signatures that qualified the measures for the ballot.
Buescher, a Democrat, is running for re-election against Republican Scott Gessler. His office oversees elections and campaign-finance reporting.
"I think there ought to be stronger penalties for repeated failure to file campaign-finance reports," Buescher said.
The current penalty is a $50 a day fine.
Gessler opposes the idea.
It would allow campaigns to run ads that say, "So-and-so is under investigation for campaign-finance violations. So what happens is the secretary of state's office becomes a political football," Gessler said.
The law says that any committee that spends $200 on a ballot initiative must report it to the secretary of state. But it is filled with loopholes. – More -
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