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Colorado Personhood Coalition Sues To Get On Ballot | After failing to collect enough signatures to get a personhood measure on Colorado’s November ballot — which would have marked the state’s third vote on whether to amend its constitution to define a fertilized egg as a person, after defeating similar initiatives twice before — Colorado Personhood Coalition is suing in Denver District Court in a last-ditch effort to advance their anti-choice agenda. The group is challenging the secretary of state’s ruling that they fell about 3,800 signatures short of the amount needed to qualify for the ballot, alleging that the secretary of state invalidated too many signatures based on minor issues like address discrepancies. Nonetheless, even if the group wins their legal challenge, the ballot certification deadline for this year’s election has already passed, and their ballot initiative to outlaw contraception and invitro fertilization will have to wait for the 2014 general election.