County ballot
Mesa County's local ballot, November 3, 2026
On the November 3, 2026 ballot
Local measures
5 local measures
- 2A, Town of Palisade: Palisade Town Sales Tax Increase for Streets, Parks and Emergency Services
- 2B, City of Grand Junction: Grand Junction 2B: Sales tax and borrowing for the Orchard Mesa pool
- 2C, Town of De Beque: De Beque 2C: A tax by the pound on medical marijuana
- 4A, Mesa County Valley School District 51: Mesa County Valley School District 51 Mill Levy Override
- 6A, Palisade Rural Fire Protection District: Palisade Rural Fire operating levy and revenue exemption
Statewide measures on every Colorado ballot
- Amendment 81 (Initiative 95): Requiring law enforcement to notify Homeland Security after criminal charges
- Amendment 82 (Initiative 177): A constitutional right to purchase and sell natural gas
- Amendment 83 (Initiative 302): Creating a constitutional right to hunt, fish and take fish and wildlife
- Amendment 84 (Initiative 362): Requiring a signature and an identification number on returned mail ballots
- Amendment 85 (Initiative 234): Requiring ballot questions to be written in plain language
- Amendment 86 (Initiative 256): Congressional redistricting and changes to final maps
- Amendment 87 (Initiative 195): Replacing Colorado's single income tax rate with six graduated rates
- Proposition NN: Keeping revenue that would otherwise fund TABOR refunds
- Proposition 132 (Initiative 85): Increasing criminal penalties for fentanyl and certain synthetic opioids
- Proposition 133 (Initiative 108): Life without parole for human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude
- Proposition 134 (Initiative 109): Designating school sports teams by biological sex
- Proposition 135 (Initiative 110): Prohibiting surgery on minors to alter biological sex characteristics
- Proposition 136 (Initiative 232): A 4.4 percent cap on the state income tax rate
- Proposition 137 (Initiative 308): Retaining sporting goods sales tax revenue for wildfire and conservation programs
Races
Judges on the ballot
- Judge Bruce R. Raaum: retention on the Mesa County Court
- Judge Craig Peter Henderson: retention in the Twenty-First Judicial District
- Judge Elizabeth L. Harris: retention on the Colorado Court of Appeals
- Judge Grant Sullivan: retention on the Colorado Court of Appeals
- Judge Gretchen B. Larson: retention in the Twenty-First Judicial District
- Judge Jennilynn E. Lawrence: retention in the Twenty-First Judicial District
- Judge Jeremy Chaffin: retention in the Twenty-First Judicial District
- Judge Karl L. Schock: retention on the Colorado Court of Appeals
- Judge Katharine E. Lum: retention on the Colorado Court of Appeals
- Judge Pax Moultrie: retention on the Colorado Court of Appeals
- Judge Rebecca Rankin Freyre: retention on the Colorado Court of Appeals
- Judge Scott Joseph Burrill: retention on the Mesa County Court
- Justice William W. Hood III: retention on the Colorado Supreme Court
County clerk
- Clerk and Recorder
- Bobbie Gross
- Phone
- (970) 244-1662
- [email protected]
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Key dates
- October 2 to October 9: county clerks mail ballots to active voters.
- October 12: drop boxes open.
- October 26: last suggested day to return a ballot by mail.
- From October 27: return your ballot to a drop box or vote center instead of mailing it.
- November 3, 2026, Election Day: ballots are due by 7:00 p.m.
Page updated September 29, 2026