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DENVER - A lightning-rod proposal asking voters to deny most state services to undocumented immigrants is likely dead for this year under a Colorado Supreme Court ruling handed down Monday.
In a 4-2 ruling with one justice abstaining, the court said the proposed constitutional amendment cannot appear on the November ballot because it violates a requirement in the constitution that initiatives deal with only one subject.
Supporters cannot start over with a revised proposal because a key deadline has passed, but they said they will ask the court to reconsider.
Defend Colorado Now, the group behind the measure, had already gathered more than 30,000 of the required 68,000 voters' signatures required to qualify for the ballot and was on track to have about 100,000 by the August deadline, said the group.
