Title 1, Elections
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-304 Presidential electors
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(1) The presidential electors shall convene at the capital of the state, in the office of the governor at the capitol building, on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in the first December following their election at the hour of 12 noon and take the oath required by law …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-305 Compensation
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Every presidential elector of this state who attends and votes for those officers at the time and place appointed by law is entitled to receive the sum of five dollars per day for each day's attendance at the election and fifteen cents per mile for each mile traveled in going to …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-401 Time of congressional vacancy elections
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(1) Except as provided in section 1-4-401.5, when any vacancy occurs in the office of representative in congress from this state, the governor shall set a day to hold an election to fill the vacancy and cause notice of the election to be given as required in part 2 of article 5 o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-402 Nominations of political party candidates
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(1) (a) Any convention of delegates of a political party or any committee authorized by resolution of the convention shall nominate a candidate to fill a vacancy in the unexpired term of a representative in congress. A state central committee, its managing or executive committee …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-404 Nomination and acceptance of candidate
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Any person nominated in accordance with this article 4 shall file a written acceptance with the secretary of state by mail or hand delivery. The written acceptance must be postmarked or received by the secretary of state within four business days after the adjournment of the asse…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-501 Only eligible electors eligible for office
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(1) 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 designee or candidate for office unless that person fully meets the qualifications of…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-502 Methods of nomination for partisan candidates
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(1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (3) of this section, nominations for United States senator, representative in congress, governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, attorney general, member of the state board of educ…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-4-503 Method of nomination for nonpartisan candidates
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Nominations for all elected nonpartisan local government officials must be by petition for nomination as provided in part 8 of this article. Source: L. 92: Entire part R&RE, p. 678, � 5, effective January 1, 1993. L. 99: Entire section amended, p. 450, � 4, effective August 4. L.…
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.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-101 Establishing precincts and polling places for partisan elections
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(1) Subject to approval by the board of county commissioners, the county clerk and recorder of each county shall divide the county into as many election precincts for all general, primary, and congressional vacancy elections as is convenient for the eligible electors of the count…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-101.5 Precinct numbering
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(1) There is hereby created a precinct numbering system that shall be used by the county clerk and recorder of each county of the state in numbering election precincts established in accordance with section 1-5-101. The precinct numbering system created pursuant to this section s…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-103 Changes in boundaries - partisan elections
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(1) Changes in the boundaries of precincts or the creation of new precincts for partisan elections must be completed no later than twenty-nine days prior to the first Tuesday in March, except in cases of precinct changes resulting from changes in county boundaries. (2) Subject to…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-104 Changes in boundaries - nonpartisan elections
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(1) Changes in the boundaries of precincts or the creation of new precincts for nonpartisan elections shall be completed no later than twenty-five days prior to scheduled elections, except in cases of precinct changes resulting from changes in the jurisdiction's boundaries. (2) A…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-105 Restrictions
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(1) [Editor's note: For the applicability of this subsection (1) on or after January 1, 2026, see the editor's note following this section.] No election-related activity may be conducted within one hundred feet of any building in which a polling location or drop-off location is l…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-106 Polling location or drop-off location - designation by sign
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(1) (a) All polling locations must be designated by signs conspicuously posted pursuant to subsection (1)(b) of this section at least twenty days before each election and during the period polling locations are open. The sign shall be substantially in the following form: Polling …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-107 Polling places for disabled electors - repeal. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 702, � 8, effective January 1, 1993. L. 2004: (2) added by revision, pp. 1361, 1213, �� 30, 31, 108. Editor's note: Subsection (2) provided for the repeal of this section, effective January 1, 2006. (See L. 2004, pp. 1361, 1213.) 1-5-108. El…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-201 Notice of presidential primary election. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 702, � 8, effective January 1, 1993. L. 93: Entire section repealed, p. 1409, � 43, effective July 1.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-201.5 Legislative declaration - purpose
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The general assembly declares that the purpose of this part 2 is to provide adequate notice of elections at a reasonable cost to the taxpayers of the state and its political subdivisions. Source: L. 94: Entire section added, p. 1155, � 20, effective July 1. 1-5-202. Notice of pre…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-203 Certification of ballot
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(1) (a) Except as provided in subsection (1)(c) of this section, no later than sixty days before any primary election, and no later than fifty-seven days before any general or odd-year November election or congressional vacancy election, the secretary of state shall deliver by el…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-204 Call for nominations for nonpartisan elections. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 703, � 8, effective January 1, 1993. L. 93: Entire section amended, p. 1409, � 46, effective July 1. L. 94: Entire section amended, p. 1157, � 23, effective July 1. L. 96: Entire section repealed, p. 1742, � 32, effective July 1.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-205 Published and posted notice of election - content
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(1) The designated election official, or the coordinated election official if so provided by an intergovernmental agreement, no later than twenty days before each election, shall provide notice by publication of the election as described by section 1-1-104 (34), which notice must…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-206.5 Ballot issue notice. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 94: Entire section added, p. 1159, � 26, effective July 1. L. 96: Entire section repealed, p. 1775, � 84, effective July 1.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-206.7 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 this code or the state constitution if the designated electi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-207 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 as provided in the order. (2) For an organizational election, the notice by publication shall include the purposes of the election, the e…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-208 Election may be canceled - when
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(1) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2010, (HB 10-1116), ch. 194, p. 832, � 11, effective May 5, 2010.) (1.5) Except as provided in section 1-4-104.5, 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 o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-301 Registration record for partisan elections
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(1) Digital registration records shall be maintained in the centralized statewide registration system created pursuant to section 1-2-301. (2) The county clerk and recorder shall provide the voter registration and voting records information to election judges for use at voter ser…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-302 Computer lists may be used in lieu of original registration records
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For the purposes of all elections, the county clerk and recorder may substitute and supply computer lists of registered electors within the political subdivision for the original registration record. Following a primary, general, or congressional vacancy election, the county cler…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-303 Registration records for nonpartisan elections
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(1) No later than the fortieth day preceding the date of the scheduled nonpartisan election, the designated election official shall order the registration records. The designated election official may order a complete list of the registered electors as of the thirtieth day prior …