Any person who, by use of force or other means, unduly influences an elector to vote in any particular manner or to refrain from voting, or who falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any mail ballot before or after it has been cast, or who destroys, defaces, mutilates, or tampers with such a ballot upon conviction shall be punished as provided in section 1-13-111.
Source: L. 90: Entire section added, p. 318, § 2, effective January 1, 1991. L. 95: Entire section amended, p. 852, § 83, effective July 1. L. 2021: Entire section amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3123, § 7, effective March 1, 2022.
ANNOTATION
The general assembly did not intend to limit prosecution for offenses related to mail ballots to this section because there is no clear legislative intent to do so in the Colorado revised statutes or the act enacting this section. Therefore, the prosecution was able to charge the defendant with a mail ballot offense and with felony forgery under the general criminal code. People v. Curtis, 2021 COA 103, 498 P.3d 677 (decided under law in effect prior to the 2021 amendment).