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CO Code § 31-10-408 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 4 - Judges|§ 31-10-408. Compensation of Judges

 The judges of election at any municipal election shall receive in full compensation for their services as judges of election not less than five dollars and not more than the maximum amount allowed by statute for payment to the judges of the general election of the state of Colorado, as determined by the governing body of the municipality.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1046, § 1, effective July 1. L. 81: Entire section amended, p. 1501, § 13, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-408 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-10-409 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 4 - Judges|§ 31-10-409. Compensation for Delivery of Election Returns and Other Election Papers

 The judges of election in each precinct shall select one of their number to deliver the election returns, registration book or list, ballot boxes, if any, and other election papers and supplies to the office of the clerk or to such other place as the clerk may designate as the counting center. The judge so selected shall be paid not more than four dollars for the performance of such service.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1046, § 1, effective July 1. L. 79: Entire section amended, p. 1177, § 16, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-409 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-10-501 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 5 - Notice and Preparation for Elections|§ 31-10-501. Clerk to Give Notice

  The clerk, at least ten days before each municipal election, shall give written or printed notice of the election stating the date of the election and the hours during which the polls will be open, designating the polling place of each precinct, stating the qualifications of persons to vote in the election, naming the officers to be elected and the questions to be voted upon, and listing the names of those candidates whose nominations have been certified to him, which listing shall be as nearly as possible in the form in which such nominations shall appear upon the official ballot with reference to wards where applicable. A copy of such notice shall be posted until after the election in a conspicuous place in the office of the clerk.    In addition, the notice shall be published in at least one newspaper having general circulation in the municipality. If the clerk finds it impracticable to make the publication on the tenth day before the election day, he shall make the same on the earliest possible day before the tenth day. The publications in any weekly newspaper shall be in the next to last issue thereof before the day of election.    All polling places shall be designated by a sign conspicuously posted at least ten days before each municipal election. Such sign shall be substantially in the following form: “POLLING PLACE FOR PRECINCT NO. ...”. In addition, such sign shall state the date of the next election and the hours the polling place will be open.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1047, § 1, effective July 1. L. 81: Entire section amended, p. 1501, § 14, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-501 as it existed prior to 1975.   ANNOTATION   The purpose of requiring that legal notices be published in newspapers of general circulation is not to benefit the papers but to insure that the public is aware of matters of legal importance. Resident Participation of Denver, Inc. v. Love, 322 F. Supp. 1100 (D. Colo. 1971 ) (decided under law in effect prior to the 1975 repeal and reenactment).
CO Code § 31-10-501.5 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 5 - Notice and Preparation for Elections|§ 31-10-501.5. Ballot Issue Notice

  Any ballot issue notice, as defined in section 1-1-104 (2.5), C.R.S., relating to a municipal ballot issue, as defined in section 1-1-104 (2.3), C.R.S., shall be prepared and distributed in a manner consistent with part 9 of article 7 of title 1, C.R.S.    In addition to the requirements set forth in subsection (1) of this section, a municipality submitting a ballot issue concerning the creation of any debt or other financial obligation at an election in the municipality shall post notice in accordance with the requirements of section 1-7-908, C.R.S.     History. Source: L. 94: Entire section added, p. 1192, § 93, effective July 1. L. 2003: Entire section amended, p. 750, § 6, effective August 6.
CO Code § 31-10-502 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 5 - Notice and Preparation for Elections|§ 31-10-502. Establishing Precincts and Polling Places

     The governing body of each municipality shall divide the municipality into as many election precincts for municipal elections as it deems expedient for the convenience of electors of said municipality and shall designate the location and address for each precinct at which elections are to be held. Municipal election precincts shall consist of one or more whole general election precincts wherever practicable, and clerks and governing bodies shall cooperate with the county clerk and recorder and board of county commissioners of their county to accomplish this purpose. In municipalities having wards, no precinct or part thereof shall be located within more than one ward, and each ward shall contain at least one precinct. The precincts shall be numbered consecutively beginning with the number one. The precincts and polling places established pursuant to this section shall remain until changed by the governing body.       Repealed.         Changes in the boundaries of election precincts or wards and the creation of new election precincts shall be completed not less than ninety days prior to any municipal election, except in cases of precinct changes resulting from annexations.    All changes in precinct or ward boundaries and in municipal boundaries shall be reported by the clerk to the county clerk and recorder, and a corrected map shall be transmitted to the county clerk and recorder as soon as possible after such changes have been effected.       It is the duty of the governing body to change any polling place upon petition of a majority of the registered electors residing within the precinct.      History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1046, § 1, effective July 1. L. 79: (1)(b) and (1)(c) repealed, p. 1182, § 28, effective July 1. L. 81: (3) amended, p. 1502, § 15, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-502 as it existed prior to 1975.   ANNOTATION   Law reviews. For article, “Redistricting: A Municipal Perspective”, see 31 Colo. Law. 49 (Feb. 2002).
CO Code § 31-10-503 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 5 - Notice and Preparation for Elections|§ 31-10-503. Judges May Change Polling Places

  When it becomes impossible or inconvenient to hold an election at the place designated therefor, the judges of election, after notifying the clerk and after having assembled at or as near as practicable to such place and before receiving any vote, may move to the nearest convenient place for holding the election and at such newly designated place forthwith proceed with the election.    Upon moving to a new polling place, the judges shall display a proclamation of the change and shall station a police officer or some other proper person at the original polling place to notify all registered electors of the new location for holding the election.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1048, § 1, effective July 1. L. 81: (1) amended, p. 1502, § 16, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-503 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-10-504 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 5 - Notice and Preparation for Elections|§ 31-10-504. Number of Voting Booths or Voting Machines

  In municipalities which 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 voters to prepare their ballots screened from observation and shall be furnished with such supplies and conveniences as will enable the voter to prepare his ballot for voting.    In municipalities which use voting machines, the governing body shall supply each precinct with a sufficient number of voting machines.    In municipalities which use an electronic voting system, the governing body shall provide adequate materials and equipment for the orderly conduct of voting.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1048, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-504 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-10-505 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 5 - Notice and Preparation for Elections|§ 31-10-505. Arrangement of Voting Machines or Voting Booths and Ballot Boxes

 The voting machines or the voting booths and ballot box shall be situated in the polling place so as to be in plain view of the election officials and watchers. No person other than the election officials and those admitted for the purpose of voting shall be permitted within the immediate voting area, which shall be considered as within six feet of the voting machines or the voting booths and ballot box, except by authority of the judges of election, and then only when necessary to keep order and enforce the law.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1048, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-505 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-10-506 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 5 - Notice and Preparation for Elections|§ 31-10-506. Election Expenses to Be Paid by Municipality

 The cost of conducting a municipal election, including the cost of printing and supplies, shall be paid by the municipality in which such election is held.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1048, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-513 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-10-507 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 5 - Notice and Preparation for Elections|§ 31-10-507. Election May Be Canceled - When

 In any ordinance adopted by the governing body of the municipality requiring an affidavit of intent for write-in candidates as provided in section 31-10-306 , the governing body may also provide that, if the only matter before the voters is the election of persons to office and if, at the close of business on the sixty-fourth day before the election, there are not more candidates than offices to be filled at such election, including candidates filing affidavits of intent, the clerk, if instructed by resolution of the governing body either before or after such date, shall cancel the election and by resolution declare the candidates elected. If so provided by ordinance, upon such declaration the candidates shall be deemed elected. Notice of such cancellation shall be published, if possible, in order to inform the electors of the municipality, and notice of such cancellation shall be posted at each polling place and in not less than one other public place.   History. Source: L. 81: Entire section added, p. 1502, § 17, effective July 1. L. 91: Entire section amended, p. 755, § 26, effective April 4. L. 2016: Entire section amended, (SB 16-142), ch. 173, p. 591, § 77, effective May 18.
CO Code § 31-10-601 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 6 - Conduct of Elections|§ 31-10-601. Hours of Voting

 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 judges of election do not attend at the hour of 7 a.m., an alternate election judge shall be appointed as provided in section 31-10-405 . The polls shall be opened if a majority of judges are present, even though the alternate judge has not arrived. Every person, otherwise qualified to vote, who is standing in line waiting to vote at 7 p.m. shall be permitted to vote.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1048, § 1, effective July 1. L. 81: Entire section amended, p. 1502, § 18, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-601 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-10-602 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 6 - Conduct of Elections|§ 31-10-602. Watchers at Municipal Elections

 Each candidate for office, or interested party in case of an issue, at a municipal election is entitled to appoint some person to act in his behalf in every precinct in which he is a candidate or in which the issue is on the ballot. Such candidate or interested party shall certify the names of the persons so appointed to the clerk on forms provided by the clerk. In case a watcher must leave the polling place, he may designate an alternate to act in his behalf while he is absent, if such alternate is made known to the election judges by an affidavit of the person first named as a watcher.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1048, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-602 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-10-603 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 6 - Conduct of Elections|§ 31-10-603. Employee Entitled to Vote

  Any registered elector entitled to vote at any municipal election held within this state is entitled to absent himself from any service or employment in which he is then engaged or employed on the day of such election for a period of two hours between the time of opening and time of closing the polls. Any such absence shall not be sufficient reason for the discharge of any such person from such service or employment. Such elector, because of so absenting himself, shall not be liable to any penalty, nor shall any deduction be made from his usual salary or wages on account of such absence. Registered electors who are employed and paid by the hour shall receive their regular hourly wage for the period of such absence, not to exceed two hours. Application shall be made for such leave of absence prior to the day of election. The employer may specify the hours during which such employee may absent himself, but such hours shall be at the beginning or ending of the work shift if the employee so requests.    This section shall not apply to any person whose hours of employment on the day of the election are such that there are three or more hours between the time of opening and the time of closing of the polls during which he is not employed on the job.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1049, § 1, effective July 1. L. 79: (2) amended, p. 1185, § 1, effective April 25.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-603 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-10-604 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 6 - Conduct of Elections|§ 31-10-604. Judges Open Ballot Box First

 In precincts which use an electronic voting system or paper ballots, it is the duty of the judges of the election, immediately before the opening of the polls, to open the ballot box in the presence of the people there assembled and turn it upside down so as to empty it of everything that may be in it and then lock it securely. It shall not be reopened until the time for counting the ballots therein.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1049, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-604 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-10-605 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 6 - Conduct of Elections|§ 31-10-605. Judge to Keep Pollbook

 A judge of election 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 registered elector voting shall be entered in regular succession under the headings in the pollbook.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1049, § 1, effective July 1. L. 81: Entire section amended, p. 1502, § 19, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-605 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-10-607 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 6 - Conduct of Elections|§ 31-10-607. Manner of Voting in Precincts Which Use Paper Ballots

  In precincts which use paper ballots, upon receiving his ballot, the registered elector shall immediately retire alone to one of the voting booths provided and shall prepare his ballot by marking or stamping in ink or indelible pencil, in the appropriate margin or place, a cross mark (X) opposite the name of the candidate of his choice for each office to be filled; except that no cross mark (X) shall be required opposite the name of a write-in candidate. In case of a question submitted to a vote of the people, said elector shall mark or stamp, in the appropriate margin or place, a cross mark (X) opposite the answer which he desires to give. Before leaving the voting booth, said elector shall fold his ballot without displaying the marks thereon, so that the contents of the ballot are concealed and the stub can be removed without exposing any of the contents of the ballot, and he shall keep the same so folded until he has deposited his ballot in the ballot box.    Each registered elector who has prepared his ballot and is ready to cast his vote shall then leave the voting booth and approach the judge of election having charge of the ballot box. He shall give his name to that judge, who shall announce the name of such elector and the number upon the duplicate stub of his ballot, which number must correspond with the stub number previously placed on the registration book or registration list. If the stub number of the ballot corresponds and is identified by the initials of the judge of election placed thereupon, the judge of election shall then remove the duplicate stub from such ballot. Such ballot shall then be returned to the registered elector, who shall thereupon, in full view of the judges of election, cast his vote by depositing the ballot in the ballot box, with the official endorsement on said ballot uppermost.    Each registered elector shall mark and deposit his ballot without undue delay and shall leave the immediate voting area as soon as he has voted. No such elector shall occupy a voting booth already occupied by another, nor remain within the immediate voting area more than ten minutes, nor occupy a voting booth for more than five minutes if all such booths are in use and other voters are waiting to occupy the same. No registered elector whose name has been entered on the pollbook shall be allowed to reenter the immediate voting area during the election except a judge of election.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1050, § 1, effective July 1. L. 79: (2) amended, p. 1178, § 18, effective July 1. L. 81: (2) and (3) amended, p. 1503, § 21, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-607 as it existed prior to 1975.   ANNOTATION   The procedures governing detachable stubs on ballots have long been governed by statute, not article VII, § 8, of the state constitution.Jones v. Samora, 2014 CO 4M, 318 P.3d 462.
CO Code § 31-10-608 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 6 - Conduct of Elections|§ 31-10-608. Disabled Voter - Assistance

  If, at any regular or special election, any voter declares under oath to the judges of election of the precinct where he is entitled to vote that, by reason of blindness or other physical disability or inability to read or write, he is unable to prepare his ballot or operate the voting machine without assistance, he is entitled, upon his request, to receive the assistance of any one of the judges of election or, at his option, of any qualified elector of the precinct selected by the disabled voter. No person other than a judge of election in the precinct is permitted to enter the polling booth as an assistant to more than one voter.    A notation shall be made in the pollbook opposite the name of each voter thus assisted stating that the voter has been assisted.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1051, § 1, effective July 1. L. 81: (1) amended, p. 1504, § 22, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-608 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-10-609 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 10 - Municipal Election Code|Part 6 - Conduct of Elections|§ 31-10-609. Spoiled Ballots

 In precincts which 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 voter spoils a ballot, he may successively obtain others, one at a time, not exceeding three in all, upon returning each spoiled one. The spoiled ballots thus returned shall be immediately canceled and shall be preserved and returned to the clerk along with other election records and supplies.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1051, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-10-609 as it existed prior to 1975.