Concerned business organizations, like the Colorado Cattlemen's Association, began to organize when Governor Polis signed Executive Order 65, allowing signatures for ballot initiatives to be collected electronically. Polis' action unilaterally changed the state constitution, which stipulates that ballot enabling signatures must be signed in the presence of a witness, or rather the petition circulator.

In support of the order, many discounted the constitution as outdated and old school.  On the contrary, the drafters of this section of the constitution thought carefully about the process in order to ensure that measures reaching the ballot were properly presented and carried the burden of a process. This is evident by the required language parameters and having an in-person witness verifying signatures.  Without these careful processes, the consequences are at best misleading and at worst catastrophic for Coloradans.

The following organizations showed a broad and diverse platform in appealing the lower court's decision by way of an amicus brief that illustrated the constitutional misgivings of the Governor's order and the subsequent impacts that would result.  

Colorado's business community understands the weight of this issue as most ballot measures affect their constituents.  While ultimately successful at Colorado's highest court, a lower court didn't adequately consider the issue and misread the constitutional powers of the Administration in Colorado.   Governor Polis does not have the authority, under a pandemic or not, to unilaterally change the state's constitutional provisions.  One can only imagine the consequences of a simple email reply with misleading information being the bar to have a citizen (or someone posing as a Colorado citizen) be the litmus to put any measure on the ballot.  Colorado would have been ruined by such a misstep.