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Poll: At least one or two labor questions might have passed

By Mike Saccone | Thursday, October 9, 2008, 05:14 PM

Business organizations and others probably are letting out a sigh or relief after seeing survey results Floyd Ciruli’s polling firm released today.

According to the poll, which surveyed 501 Colorado voters from Sept. 19 to Sept. 23, Amendment 53 and Amendment 56 were either above or near garnering at least 50 percent support.

Amendment 53 would have made corporate executives criminally liable for wrongdoing that went on in their companies. Amendment 56 would have required that businesses with at least 20 employees provide health insurance for their workers.

Both ballot questions, along with two others, were pulled in a deal hashed out last week between labor and business organizations.

The poll, which has a margin or error of 4.4 percentage points, shows the so-called “right to work” ballot question, Amendment 47, and its pro-business peers, Amendment 49 and Amendment 54, lacking at least 50 percent support.

*Voting photo from the Associated Press.

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