In case you think Colorado governor Polis' emailed petition system is ANYTHING like the online petition system that Arizona has and which Boulder since 2018 has in its Charter but hasn't yet implemented, here is the difference:

Here is Arizona's petition interface, which doubles to allow $5 campaign contributions: apps.azsos.gov/equal. (Hint: it identifies you by driver's license, last 4 digits of SSN, Etc, just like 40 State's online voter registration systems, including Colorado's. Takes less than 30 seconds.)

The new Colorado rules: https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/rule_making/files/2020/20200530ElectionsNoticeTempAdopSBSJ.pdf

Boulder's City Attorney summarizes it here:

Proponents must submit and have approved by the Secretary of State a form for mail or email signatures.

Proponents may circulate both in person and remotely.

Email or mail signatures must be “wet.”

Email or mail signatures must be witnessed by a registered voter who is not the collector.

The witness may either do so in person or remotely through an audio visual system that allows the witness to see the person signing.

If the witness acts remotely, the signer must send by mail or electronic means the signed petition to the witness who must then affix a wet signature and return it to the signer.

The witness must sign an affidavit stating that the signature is of the person identified, that the person signing is a registered voter and the witness saw the signer sign.

The proponent must designate a collector and a transcriber.

The collector is responsible for sending and receiving remotely signed petitions.

The collector must sign an affidavit.

The collector affidavit must be sent to a notary to notarize.

The transcriber is responsible for transcribing the information on the remote petitions onto petition forms.

The transcriber must bundle the transcribed petitions with the original signature pages for submission to the Secretary of State.

The transcriber must sign a transcriber affidavit for each section.

The proponent must indicate which sections were circulated in person and which were circulated by mail or email.

Petitions and any cure must be submitted no later than August 3, 2020.

Any section that does not comply with the rules can be rejected.

Faulty affidavits can be cured.

The Secretary of State will compare signatures to those in the voter database.

But that's too easy for the folks, including oil and gas and big business in general who are suing the governor to stop making it even conceivable to do a ballot initiative or referendum this year on the state level.

This opposition by the money people should help us understand why City of Boulder staff, State staff and others have obstructed real online petitioning for so long. For details see:

Tinyurl.com/petitionstory