Opinion ID: 2744274
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Heading: The Secretary of State’s Regulatory Changes

Text: The Secretary of State bears responsibility for regulating election procedures for each Colorado county. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-1-110(1) (“The county clerk and recorder . . . shall . . . follow the rules and orders promulgated by the secretary of state pursuant to this code.”); see 8 Colo. Code Regs. § 1505-1:7.1 (requiring approval by the Secretary of State on all mail ballot plans). Citizen Center challenges the constitutionality of voting procedures in the 2012 election. R. vol. 1, at 41. But the Secretary of State has revised its election regulations. See 8 Colo. Code Regs. § 1505-1. The current regulations: (1) prohibit counties from printing ballots with unique numbers or barcodes, (2) require counties using rotating numbers to “print at least ten ballots of each ballot style for each number,” and (3) direct county clerks to “dissociate any batch number that could trace a ballot back to the specific voter who cast it from the counted ballots no later than 7 the final certification of the abstract of votes cast.” Id. §§ 1505-1:4.8.4(a), 1505-1:7.5.8.