031_01.pdf-bold vote-summarize in 5-
Expands the existing election offense governing false statements, which currently proscribes certain conduct performed "knowingly", to prohibit any person from "recklessly" making, publishing, broadcasting, or circulating or causing to make, publish, broadcast, or circulate in any form of communication any false statement designed to affect the vote on any issue submitted to the electors at any election or relating to any candidate for election to public office.
...act, a person acts recklessly when he or she acts in conscious disregard of the truth or falsity of the statement made, published, broadcasted, or circulated.... Expands the existing election offense to include knowingly broadcasting or causing to broadcast false statements among the means of disseminating information that must be shown to prove the commission of a violation under the offense.
...designed to affect the vote on any issue submitted to the electors at any election or relating to any candidate for election to public office.
...ADVERTISEMENT, OR POSTER OR IN ANY OTHER COMMUNICATION ANY FALSE STATEMENT DESIGNED TO AFFECT THE vote ON ANY ISSUE SUBMITTED TO THE ELECTORS AT ANY ELECTION OR RELATING TO ANY CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION TO PUBLIC OFFICE.
043_01.pdf-bold vote-summarize in 5-
affiliation with a political party that is participating in a primary election and who desires to vote for candidates of that party at a primary election shall show identification, as defined in section 1-1-104 (19.5), and write his or her name and address on a form available at the polling place and give the form to one of the election judges, who shall clearly and audibly announce the name.
...1-1-104 (19.5), AND WRITE HIS OR HER NAME, ADDRESS, AND THE NAME OF THE POLITICAL PARTY FOR WHICH THE ELECTOR DESIRES TO CAST A BALLOT ON A FORM AVAILABLE AT THE POLLING PLACE AND GIVE THE FORM TO ONE OF THE ELECTION JUDGES, WHO SHALL CLEARLY AND AUDIBLY ANNOUNCE THE NAME.
...(1) The application for an absentee ballot shall be made in writing or by fax, using the application form furnished by the designated election official or in the form of a letter that includes the applicant's printed name, signature, residence address, mailing address if the applicant wishes to receive the absentee ballot by mail, and date of birth. If the application is made for a primary election ballot, the application shall name EITHER the political party with which the applicant is affiliated or wishes to affiliate OR THE POLITICAL PARTY FOR WHICH THE ELECTOR DESIRES TO CAST A BALLOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 1-7-201 (2.5).
...The prescribed form or personal letter for the change shall include the elector's printed name, address within the county, birth date, social security number, if the elector wishes to state it, and signature, the date, the elector's previous affiliation status, and the requested change in affiliation status.
084_01.pdf-bold vote-summarize in 5-
Makes the following technical modifications to voter identification requirements implementing the federal "Help America vote Act of 2002": Clarifies that the form of driver's license sufficient to demonstrate the elector's identification for voting purposes is a Colorado driver's license.
...Allows as an additional form of acceptable identification for voting purposes a valid student identification card containing a photograph of the elector issued by any public or private college, university, or postgraduate technical or professional school located within the state of Colorado. In connection with the information that must be provided by an elector to register to vote in person, specifies that the elector shall provide the last 4 digits of the elector's social security number, a valid driver's license number, or a valid state-issued identification card number, rather than the applicable license number and the last 4 digits of the elector's social security number as is now required.... In connection with requirements governing first-time voters casting a mail or absentee ballot after having registered by mail to vote, allows the elector to submit with his or her ballot either the identifying number assigned to the elector in connection with any of the various forms of identification allowable for voter identification purposes or a copy of such identification, instead of only the copy as is now required under existing law.
...IDENTIFYING NUMBER ASSIGNED TO THE ELECTOR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY OF THE VARIOUS FORMS OF IDENTIFICATION WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 1-1-104 (19.5).
153_01.pdf-bold vote-summarize in 5-
Defines "vote center" as a polling place at which any registered elector in the political subdivision holding the election may vote, regardless of the precinct in which the elector resides.
...As used in this code, unless the context otherwise requires: (49.7) "vote CENTER" MEANS A POLLING PLACE AT WHICH ANY REGISTERED ELECTOR IN THE POLITICAL SUBDIVISION HOLDING THE ELECTION MAY vote, REGARDLESS OF THE PRECINCT IN WHICH THE ELECTOR RESIDES.
...(4) Notwithstanding any other requirement under this section, subject to approval by the board of county commissioners, county clerk and recorders may combine precincts for any primary election or special legislative election.
...(1) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF SECTION 1-5-101, 1-5-102, OR 1-5-102.5, A DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL MAY COMBINE POLLING PLACES OR PRECINCTS OR ESTABLISH ONE OR MORE vote CENTERS FOR ANY ELECTION.
...COUNTY WITH A POPULATION OF TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND OR MORE ACTIVE REGISTERED ELECTORS, THERE SHALL BE AT LEAST ONE vote CENTER FOR EVERY TEN THOUSAND ACTIVE REGISTERED ELECTORS; EXCEPT THAT THE SECRETARY OF STATE MAY WAIVE THIS REQUIREMENT FOR A COUNTY BEFORE THE ELECTION AT THE REQUEST OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER.
1227_01.pdf-bold vote-summarize in 5-
As used in this code, unless the context otherwise requires: (50) "vote recorder" or "voting device" means any apparatus which THAT the elector uses to record votes by marking or punching a hole in a paper ballot or tabulating card and which THAT subsequently counts the votes by electronic tabulating equipment or records the votes electronically on a paper tape within the apparatus and simultaneously on a removable "prom" or other AN electronic tabulation device.
...In all elections held in this state, the votes may be cast, registered, recorded, and counted by means of a voting machine or by means of an electronic OR ELECTROMECHANICAL voting system consisting of a ballot which is marked by the elector and counted by electronic vote-counting equipment or counted by electronic voting equipment on which votes are recorded simultaneously on a paper tape and a removable "prom" or other electronic tabulating device or a vote recorder which the elector uses to record each vote on a ballot card and the electronic vote-counting equipment, as provided in this part 6.
...The provisions of this section shall be limited to actual physical contact with any voting machine or electronic voting equipment or device or any of its parts and shall not be construed as prohibiting an elected official from directing employees or other persons who are not elected officials to prepare, maintain, repair, or otherwise handle any voting machines or electronic voting equipment or devices.
...electronic AND ELECTROMECHANICAL voting systems for sale and use in the state of Colorado, if: (a) No THE independent testing authority will be recognized and granted the authority to qualify electronic voting systems for use in this state unless it has met all of the obligations and ongoing requirements necessary to gain certification as an independent testing authority from the national association of state election directors or other national authority recognized by the federal election ASSISTANCE commission.
...(1) (a) If at any election, any registered elector declares to the election judges that, by reason of blindness or other physical disability or inability to read or write, he or she is unable to prepare the ballot or operate the voting machine DEVICE OR ELECTRONIC VOTING DEVICE without assistance, the elector shall be entitled, upon making a request, to receive the assistance of any one of the election judges or, at the elector's option, any eligible elector selected by the disabled eligible elector.
1296_01.pdf-bold vote-summarize in 5-
Requires each voting system used in an election in the state to produce a permanent paper record of each vote.... States that the permanent paper record shall be the official record of the election for purposes of any recount.
...As used in this code, unless the context otherwise requires: (23.8) "PERMANENT PAPER RECORD" MEANS A PAPER BALLOT, A BALLOT OR BALLOT CARD USED WITH ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT OR A PUNCH CARD ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM, OR A PAPER RECORD PRODUCED BY ANY OTHER VOTING SYSTEM.
...(2) EACH ELIGIBLE ELECTOR MAY INSPECT, VERIFY, AND CORRECT THE PERMANENT PAPER RECORD OF THE ELIGIBLE ELECTOR'S vote AT THE TIME THE vote IS CAST.
(3) THE PERMANENT PAPER RECORD OF EACH ELIGIBLE ELECTOR'S vote SHALL BE PRESERVED AS AN ELECTION RECORD PURSUANT TO SECTION 1-7-802 AND SHALL CONSTITUTE THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE ELECTION FOR PURPOSES OF ANY RECOUNT.
1335_01.pdf-bold vote-summarize in 5-
SRJ010_01.pdf-bold vote-summarize in 5-