Proponents of the "Right to Health Care Choice" plan to drop off petitions at the Colorado secretary of state's office today. The initiative would attempt to withdraw Colorado from the new federal health care legislation that requires each person to have health insurance. It will likely take the secretary of state about a month to count and verify signatures.
Should the measure qualify for the ballot, Colorado will become the fifth state to vote on the issue this year. Missouri voters will consider it in next week's primary election, and voters in Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma will see it on their November ballots. Colorado's would be the first initiative to make the ballot on this topic though -- all four of the others were referred to the ballot by legislatures.
CORRECTION: Florida's health care measure, Amendment 9, was blocked from the ballot last week by a Leon Circuit County judge on the grounds that its title and summary were misleading.
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