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A proposed 2010 ballot measure appears to roll back property tax actions passed after 1992, but legislators aren't sure because they say the language is confusing.

"Honestly, I don't what they're trying to do here," Rep. Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver, said after reading the proposal.

Sen. Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction and Senate minority leader, said: "I'm torn. I love tax cuts, but I have a longstanding policy against run-on sentences and non sequiturs in the Constitution."

Other lawmakers who reviewed it said the authors might be unwittingly giving undocumented immigrants the right to vote. That's because it allows Coloradans to vote on property tax issues in any district where they own taxable property.