Title 1, Elections
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-504 Documents are public records
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All certificates of designation, petitions, certificates of nomination, acceptances, declinations, and withdrawals are public records as soon as they are filed and are open to public inspection under proper regulation. When a copy of any document is presented at the time the orig…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-601 Designation of candidates for primary election - definition
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(1) (a) Assemblies of the major political parties may make assembly designations of candidates for nomination on the primary election ballot. Except as provided in subsection (1)(b) of this section, an assembly shall be held no later than seventy-three days preceding the primary …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-602 Delegates to party assemblies - definition
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(1) (a) (I) Except as provided in subsection (1)(a)(IV) of this section, county assemblies must be held no later than twenty-one days after precinct caucuses. The county central committee or executive committee shall fix the number of delegates from each precinct to participate i…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-603 Designation of major political party candidates by petition
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Candidates for major political party nominations for the offices specified in section 1-4-502 (1) that are to be made by primary election may be placed on the primary election ballot by petition, as provided in part 8 of this article. Source: L. 80: Entire article R&RE, p. 328, �…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-605 Order of names on primary ballot
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Candidates designated and certified by assembly for a particular office shall be placed on the primary election ballot in the order of the vote received at the assembly. The candidate receiving the highest vote shall be placed first in order on the ballot, followed by the candida…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-701 Party nominations to be made by convention
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(1) Any convention of delegates of a political party or any committee authorized by resolution of the convention may nominate candidates for vacancies to unexpired terms of representatives in congress and for presidential electors and also may select delegates to national politic…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-702 Nominations of candidates for general election by convention
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(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a political party may choose to change from the nomination of candidates by primary election to the nomination of candidates by assembly or convention for all offices including, but not limited to, united states senator, representat…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-801 Designation of party candidates by petition
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(1) Candidates for political party nominations to be made by primary election may be placed on the primary election ballot by petition. Every petition to nominate candidates for a primary election shall state the name of the office for which the person is a candidate and the cand…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-803 Petitions for nominating school district directors
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(1) (a) Any person who desires to be a candidate for the office of school director in a school district in which fewer than one thousand students are enrolled shall file a nomination petition signed by at least twenty-five eligible electors from throughout the school district, re…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-806 Preregistrants eligible to sign petitions
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A preregistrant who is eligible to vote in a primary election under section 1-2-101 (2)(c) is eligible to sign a petition under this part 8 to nominate a candidate for the primary election or for the next general election. Source: L. 2019: Entire section added, (HB 19-1278), ch. …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-901 Designation of petition
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(1) The petition for a candidate may consist of one or more sheets, to be fastened together in the form of one petition section, but each sheet shall contain the same heading and each petition section shall contain one sworn affidavit of the circulator. Except for the joint candi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-902 Form of petition
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(1) The signatures to a petition need not all be appended to one paper, but no petition is legal that does not contain the requisite number of names of eligible electors whose names do not appear on any other petition previously filed for the same office under this section. (2) A…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-903 Approval of petition
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No petition shall be circulated until it has been approved as meeting the requirements of this section as to form. The secretary of state or the official with whom the petitions are to be filed shall approve or disapprove a petition as to form by the close of the second business …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-904 Signatures on the petitions
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(1) Every petition shall be signed only by eligible electors. (2) (a) For petitions to nominate candidates from a major political party in a partisan election, each signer must be affiliated with the major political party named in the petition and shall state the following to the…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-905 Circulators - requirements - affidavits - notarization - training
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(1) A person shall not circulate a petition to nominate a candidate unless the person is a citizen of the United States and at least eighteen years of age. (2) (a) Each petition section must have attached a signed, notarized, and dated affidavit executed by the person who circula…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-905.5 Petition entities - requirements - violations - definitions
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(1) As used in this section: (a) Candidate has the same meaning as set forth in section 2 (2) of article XXVIII of the state constitution. (b) Candidate committee has the same meaning as set forth in section 2 (3) of article XXVIII of the state constitution. (c) Petition entity m…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-906 Candidate's acceptance
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Every nominating petition before it is filed shall have attached to it a notarized acceptance of the nomination of the candidate or notarized acceptances by both of the joint candidates. Each acceptance of nomination shall contain the full name of the candidate or joint candidate…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-907 Filing of petition
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The petition, when executed and acknowledged as prescribed in this part 9, shall be filed as follows: With the secretary of state if it is for an office that is voted on by the electors of the entire state or of a congressional district or for the offices of members of the genera…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-909 Protest of designations and nominations
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(1) A petition or certificate of designation or nomination that has been verified and appears to be sufficient under this code shall be deemed valid unless a petition for a review of the validity of the petition pursuant to section 1-1-113 is filed with the district court within …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-910 Protest to a recall petition. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 92: Entire part R&RE, p. 691, � 7, effective January 1, 1993. L. 94: Entire section amended, p. 1154, � 17, effective July 1. L. 95: Entire section repealed, p. 833, � 38, effective July 1.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-911 Review of a protest
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The party filing a protest has the burden of sustaining the protest by a preponderance of the evidence. The decision upon matters of substance is open to review, if prompt application is made, as provided in section 1-1-113. The remedy in all cases shall be summary, and the decis…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-912 Cure - rules
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(1) Repealed. (2) During the review of any candidate's petition that is required to be filed with the secretary of state's office, the secretary of state shall notify the candidate of any errors and insufficiencies regarding circulator affidavits. Upon the receipt of such a notif…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-913 Defacing of petitions. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 92: Entire part R&RE, p. 692, � 7, effective January 1, 1993. L. 95: Entire section repealed, p. 834, � 40, effective July 1.