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Title 1, Elections

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-1406 Recount
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If, upon the trial of any contested election under this article, the statement or counterstatement sets forth an error in canvass sufficient to change the result, the trial judge has the power to conduct a recount of the ballots cast or the votes tabulated on the voting machines …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-1407 Judgment
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The court shall pronounce judgment whether the contestee or any other person was duly elected. The person so declared elected is entitled to the office upon qualification. If the judgment is against the contestee and he or she has received his or her certificate, the judgment ann…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-1408 Ballot questions and ballot issues - how contested
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(1) The results of an election on any ballot question or ballot issue may be contested in the manner provided by this part 14. The grounds for such contest are those grounds set forth in section 1-13.5-1401 (1)(b), (1)(c), and (1)(d). The contestee is the appropriate election off…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-1501 Controversies

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(1) When any controversy arises between any official charged with any duty or function under this article and any candidate or other person, the district court, upon the filing of a verified petition by any such official or person setting forth in concise form the nature of the c…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-1601 Applicability of criminal penalties

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Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, except for parts 2 and 3 of article 13 of this title, election offenses and penalties described under article 13 of this title apply to elections conducted under this article. Source: L. 2014: Entire article added, (HB 14-1164…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-201 Registration required

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Except where a statute specifically provides otherwise, no person is permitted to vote at any local government election without first having registered to vote in Colorado in accordance with the "Uniform Election Code of 1992", articles 1 to 13 of this title. Source: L. 2014: Ent…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-202 Persons entitled to vote at special district elections

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No person is permitted to vote in any special district election unless that person is an eligible elector as defined in section 32-1-103 (5), C.R.S. Source: L. 2014: Entire article added, (HB 14-1164), ch. 2, p. 9, § 6, effective February 18.

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-203 Registration records for local government elections - costs

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(1) No later than the fortieth day preceding the date of a scheduled local government election, the designated election official shall order the registration records from the county clerk and recorder. The designated election official shall order either: (a) An initial list of th…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-204 Lists of property owners - costs

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(1) For elections where owning property in the local government is a requirement for voting in the election, no later than the fortieth day preceding the date of the election, the designated election official shall order the list of property owners from the county assessor. Excep…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-205 Delivery and custody of registration list and property owner list

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At such time as may be set by the designated election official, but at least one day prior to the election, one of the election judges from each precinct may appear in person at the office of the designated election official for the purpose of receiving the registration list and,…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-301 Eligibility for office - prohibitions - exceptions - challenges

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(1) (a) No person except an eligible elector who is at least eighteen years of age, unless another age is required by law, is eligible to hold any office in this state. No person is eligible to be a candidate for office unless that person fully meets the qualifications of that of…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-302 Nomination of local government candidates

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(1) Except as provided in section 1-13.5-303 or other applicable law, candidates for office of nonpartisan local governments must be nominated, without regard to affiliation, by petition on forms supplied by the designated election official. A petition of nomination may consist o…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-303 Candidates for special district or business improvement district director - self-nomination and acceptance form

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(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no earlier than January 1 and no later than the normal close of business on the sixty-seventh day before the date of a regular special district election, any person who desires to be a candidate for the office of a special distric…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-304 Withdrawal from nomination

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Any person who has been nominated and who has accepted a nomination, or filed a self-nomination form or letter, may cause his or her name to be withdrawn from such nomination at any time before the election by executing a written affidavit withdrawing from the nomination. The wit…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-305 Write-in candidate affidavit

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A write-in vote for any local government office is counted only if an affidavit of intent to be a write-in candidate is filed with the designated election official by the person whose name is written in not later than sixty-four days before the day of the election. The affidavit …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-306 Objections to nominations

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All self-nomination and acceptance forms or letters, petitions of nomination, and affidavits of intent to be a write-in candidate that are in apparent conformity, as determined by the designated election official, with section 1-13.5-302, 1-13.5-303, or 1-13.5-305, are valid unle…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-401 Appointment of election judges

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(1) (a) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, at least fifteen days before each local government election, the governing body shall appoint the election judges. (b) Each election judge must be registered to vote in Colorado and at least eighteen years of age. Elec…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-402 Number of judges - appointment

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The governing body, or the designated election official if authorized pursuant to section 1-13.5-401 (2), shall appoint at least two election judges for each local government election. The appointing authority may also appoint any additional judges as deemed necessary, and may ap…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-403 Certificates of appointment

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Promptly after the appointment of the election judges, the designated election official shall issue certificates certifying the appointments. The designated election official shall mail one certificate to each person appointed. Source: L. 2014: Entire article added, (HB 14-1164),…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-404 Acceptance form - time to file

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With each certificate of appointment transmitted to the election judges, the designated election official shall enclose a form for acceptance of the appointment. Each individual appointed as an election judge may file his or her acceptance form in the office of the designated ele…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-405 Vacancies - emergency appointments

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Except when section 1-13.5-404 applies, if an individual appointed as an election judge refuses or fails to accept the appointment or is unable to serve, the individual or any other election judge must immediately notify the designated election official. The designated election o…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-406 Removal of judges

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The designated election official may summarily remove any election judge who neglects his or her duty, or commits, encourages, or connives at any fraud in connection therewith, or violates any election laws, or knowingly permits others to do so, or has been convicted of any felon…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-407 Oath of judges

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Before any votes are taken at any local government election, the election judges shall make a self-affirmation substantially in the following form: I, ...., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the United States and the state of Colorado; that I am a registered el…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-408 Training of judges

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The designated election official shall make available an instruction class concerning the tasks of an election judge not more than forty-five days prior to each election. A designated election official shall remove an election judge who fails or refuses to attend the instruction …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-409 Compensation of judges

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The election judges at any local government election shall receive reasonable compensation for their services as election judges on election day and additional reasonable compensation for attending an instruction class required in section 1-13.5-408, as determined by the governin…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-410 Compensation for delivery of election returns and other election papers

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The election judges in each polling place shall select one of their number to deliver the election returns, registration list, property owners list, ballot boxes, if any, and other election papers and supplies to the office of the designated election official or to such other pla…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-501 Call for nominations - definitions

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(1) Between seventy-five and one hundred days before a regular local government election, the designated election official shall provide public notice of a call for nominations for the election. The call must state the director offices to be voted upon at the election, where a se…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-502 Notice of election

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(1) The designated election official, at least twenty days before each local government election, shall give written notice of the election stating the date of the election and the location and hours during which the polls will be open; the date ballots have or may be mailed if t…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-503 Ballot issue notice

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(1) Any ballot issue notice relating to a local government ballot issue must be prepared and distributed in a manner consistent with part 9 of article 7 of this title. (2) In addition to the requirements set forth in subsection (1) of this section, a local government submitting a…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-504 Establishing precincts and polling places - applicability

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(1) This section applies to local government elections that are conducted by polling place. (2) The governing body of each local government, or designated election official if authorized by the governing body, shall divide the local government into as many election precincts for …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-504.5 Accessibility of polling places to persons with disabilities

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(1) Each polling place shall comply fully with the current "ADA standards for accessible design" set forth in 28 CFR 36 and promulgated in accordance with the federal "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990", as amended, 42 U.S.C. sec. 12101 et seq., and no barrier shall impede …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-505 Judges may change polling places

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(1) When it becomes impossible or inconvenient to hold an election at the place designated, the election judges, after notifying the designated election official and after having assembled at or as near as practicable to such place and before receiving any vote, may move to the n…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-506 Number of voting booths, voting machines, or voting systems

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(1) In local governments that use paper ballots, the governing body shall provide in each polling place a sufficient number of voting booths. Each voting booth shall be situated so as to permit an eligible elector to prepare his or her ballot screened from observation and shall b…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-507 Arrangement of voting machines or voting booths and ballot boxes

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The voting machines or the voting booths and ballot box must be situated in the polling place in plain view of the election officials and watchers. No person other than the election officials and those admitted for the purpose of voting are permitted within the immediate voting a…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-508 Election expenses to be paid by local government

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The cost of conducting a local government election, including the cost of printing and supplies, is to be paid by the local government for which the election is being held. Source: L. 2014: Entire article added, (HB 14-1164), ch. 2, p. 19, § 6, effective February 18.

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-509 Failure to receive mailed notice

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Any election for which a notice was mailed shall not be invalidated on the grounds that an eligible elector did not receive the ballot issue notice, mailed information, or mailed notification of the election required by law or the state constitution if the designated election off…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-510 Court-ordered elections

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(1) When an election is ordered by the court for a special district, the court shall authorize the designated election official to give notice, and take such other actions, as provided in the order. (2) For an organizational election, the notice by publication must include the pu…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-511 Certification of ballot

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(1) No later than sixty days before any election, the designated election official of each local government that intends to conduct an election shall certify the order of the ballot and ballot content. The order of the ballot and ballot content must include the name and office of…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-512 Correction of errors

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The designated election official shall, on his or her own motion, correct without delay any error in publication of sample or official ballots that he or she discovers or that is brought to his or her attention and that can be corrected without interfering with the timely distrib…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-513 Election may be canceled - when - definition

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(1) If the only matter before the electors in a nonpartisan election is the election of persons to office and if, at the close of business on the sixty-third day before the election or at any time thereafter, there are not more candidates than offices to be filled at the election…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-601 Hours of voting

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At all elections held under this article, the polls shall be opened at 7 a.m. and remain open until 7 p.m. of the same day. If a full set of election judges is not present at the hour of 7 a.m., an alternate election judge shall be appointed by the designated election official or…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-602 Watchers - definition

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(1) (a) (I) Each candidate for office, or interested party in case of a ballot issue or ballot question, at a local government election is entitled to appoint an eligible elector to act on his or her behalf in every polling place in which he or she is a candidate or in which the …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-603 Judges open ballot box first

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In polling places that use an electronic voting system or paper ballots, the election judges, immediately before the opening of the polls, shall open the ballot box in the presence of the people assembled in the polling place, turn it upside down so as to empty it of all of its c…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-604 Judge to keep pollbook

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An election judge shall keep a pollbook, which shall contain one column headed "names of voters" and one column headed "number on ballot". The name and number on the ballot of each eligible elector voting must be entered in regular succession under the headings in the pollbook. S…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-605 Preparing to vote

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(1) Any eligible elector desiring to vote shall write his or her name and address on a form available at the polling place and shall give the form to one of the election judges, who shall thereupon announce the same clearly and audibly. If the elector is unable to write, he or sh…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-606 Manner of voting in precincts using paper ballots

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(1) In precincts that use paper ballots, upon receiving his or her ballot, an eligible elector shall immediately retire alone to one of the voting booths provided and shall prepare the ballot by marking or stamping in ink or indelible pencil, in the appropriate margin or place, a…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-607 Eligible elector requiring assistance

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(1) Notwithstanding any provision of section 1-13.5-606 to the contrary, if, at any election, an eligible elector declares under oath to the election judges of the polling place that, by reason of visual impairment or other physical disability or inability to read or write, the e…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-608 Spoiled ballots

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In polling places that use an electronic voting system or paper ballots, no person shall take or remove any ballot from the polling place before the close of the polls. If any elector spoils a ballot, he or she may successively obtain others, one at a time, not exceeding three in…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-609 Counting paper ballots

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(1) As soon as the polls at any election are finally closed, the election judges shall immediately open the ballot box and proceed to count the votes cast, and, before the election judges adjourn, the counting thereof shall continue until finished. The election judges shall first…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13.5-610 Counting by counting judges

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(1) In precincts with counting judges, the receiving judges as directed by the designated election official shall deliver to the counting judges the ballot box containing cast ballots and the receiving judges shall then use another ballot box furnished for voting. The receiving j…