2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 1 - ELECTIONS (§§ 1-1-101 — 1-46-106) › GENERAL, PRIMARY, RECALL, AND CONGRESSIONAL VACANCY ELECTIONS (§§ 1-1-101 — 1-17-101) › Article 5 - NOTICE OF AND PREPARATION FOR ELECTIONS (§§ 1-5-101 — 1-5-908) › Part 2 - CALL AND NOTICE (§§ 1-5-201 — 1-5-208) › Section 1-5-205 - Published and posted notice of election - content

(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 state, as applicable for the particular election for which notice is provided, the following:
(a)
The date of the election;
(b)
The hours during which the polling locations and, as appropriate, drop-off locations will be open;
(c)
The addresses of the polling locations;
(d)
The addresses of the drop-off locations;
(e)
Repealed.
(f) to (i)
(Deleted by amendment, L. 2002, p. 1627, § 5, effective June 7, 2002.)
(1.2)
(Deleted by amendment, L. 2002, p. 1627, § 5, effective June 7, 2002.)
(1.3)
A copy of the notice required by this section shall be posted at least ten days prior to the election and until two days after the election in a conspicuous place in the office of the designated election official or the clerk and recorder if the election is coordinated by the clerk and recorder. Sample ballots may be used as notices so long as the information required by this section is included with the sample ballot.
(1.4)
Publication of the notice required by subsection (1) of this section by the clerk and recorder for a coordinated election shall satisfy the publication requirement for all political subdivisions participating in the coordinated election.
(1.5)
(Deleted by amendment, L. 2002, p. 1627, § 5, effective June 7, 2002.)
(2)
At the time that notice by publication is made, the designated election official shall also mail a copy of the notice of the election to the county clerk and recorders of the counties in which the political subdivision is located if the clerk and recorder is not the coordinated election official.
(3)
When there is a vacancy for an unexpired term in any national or state office or a district office of state concern that is by law to be filled at any general or congressional vacancy election, the secretary of state, no later than fifty-five days prior to the election, shall give notice in writing by publishing a notice in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the state or in the congressional district in which the vacancy is to be filled. The notice shall specify the office in which the vacancy exists, the cause of the vacancy, the name of the officer in whose office it has occurred, and the time when the term of office will expire.
(4)
For a primary mail ballot election, in addition to the items described in subsection (1) of this section, the notice shall advise eligible electors who are not affiliated with a political party of the electors' ability to select and cast a ballot of one major political party in the primary election.
Amended by 2019 Ch. 326, § 31, eff. 8/2/2019.
Amended by 2016 Ch. 173, § 38, eff. 5/18/2016.
Amended by 2013 Ch. 185, § 36, eff. 5/10/2013.
L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 704, § 8, effective 1/1/1993. L. 93: Entire section amended, p. 1410, § 47, effective July 1. L. 94: Entire section amended, p. 1157, § 24, effective July 1. L. 96: IP(1), (1)(h), and (1)(i) amended and (1.2) added, p. 1743, § 33, effective July 1. L. 99: IP(1) and (1.5) amended, p. 773, § 43, effective May 20. L. 2000: (1)(g) amended, p. 299, § 7, effective August 2. L. 2002: Entire section amended, p. 1627, § 5, effective June 7. L. 2007: (1)(d) amended, p. 1778, § 13, effective June 1. L. 2013: IP(1), (1)(b), (1)(c), and (1)(d) amended, (HB 13-1303), ch. 709, p. 709, § 36, effective May 10. L. 2016: (1)(e) repealed and (4) added, (SB 16-142), ch. 579, p. 579, § 38, effective May 18. L. 2019: (4) amended, (HB 19-1278), ch. 3026, p. 3026, § 31, effective August 2.
This section is similar to former § 1-6-202(2) as it existed prior to 1992.
(1) For the correction of errors in publication, see § 1-5-412 . (2) In 2013, the introductory portion to subsection (1) and subsections (1)(b), (1)(c), and (1)(d) were amended by the "Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act". For the short title and the legislative declaration, see sections 1 and 2 of chapter 185, Session Laws of Colorado 2013. (3) For the short title ("Colorado Votes Act") in HB 19-1278, see section 1 of chapter 326, Session Laws of Colorado 2019.