Counterpoint: Legislature should limit citizen ballot initiatives

On election day, Colorado citizens voted on three referenda, four constitutional amendments, and four more amendments to the Colorado Revised Statutes. Besides these State of Colorado questions, innumerable city, county, school-district and special district issues were presented to voters.

Hopefully you didn’t pick a voting line where the individual ahead of you was reading the ballot contents for the first time. If you did, the only saving grace was the 10-minute limit established by voting authorities. Perhaps next election we can vote on a citizen-initiated amendment to restrict voting time to only five minutes.

At this election, voters were asked to express…