§ 1-2-222 — Errors in recording of affiliation

Colorado § 1-2-222

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 01: Elections
• Art.: Qualifications and Registration of Electors

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(1) If an elector goes to the
elector's legal voting place to vote at any primary election or to the office of the
county clerk and recorder and contends that an error has been made in the
recording of the elector's affiliation in the statewide voter registration system or
that the affiliation has been unlawfully changed or withdrawn, the election judges
or the county clerk and recorder shall allow the elector to make and sign an
affidavit, which shall be substantially in the form provided in subsection (4) of this
section. Any election judge or the county clerk and recorder has authority to
administer the oath and take the acknowledgment of the elector's affidavit. When
the affidavit is completed, the county clerk and recorder shall make the change as
specified in the affidavit using the date provided by the elector on the affidavit as
the new affiliation date.

(2) (Deleted by amendment, L. 99, p. 159, � 5, effective August 4, 1999.)

(3) For the purposes of determining the eligibility of candidates for
nomination in accordance with sections 1-4-601 (4)(a) and 1-4-801 (4), the eligibility
of persons to vote at any precinct caucus, assembly, or convention in accordance
with section 1-3-101, or the eligibility of persons to sign petitions in accordance with
section 1-4-801 (2), the date of declaration of the party affiliation of the elector
must be the date which the elector alleges by affidavit to be the correct date of
affiliation.

(4) Printed affidavit forms must be furnished to the election judges of the
various election precincts. The affidavit form must be substantially as follows:

STATE OF COLORADO )

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County of ...........................................................)

I, ...................., believing an error has been made as to the recording of my party
affiliation, or a change unlawfully made, or a withdrawal unlawfully made in the
statewide voter registration system, do solemnly swear, or affirm, that the party
affiliation as now shown in the statewide voter registration system is an error, or
has been unlawfully changed, or has been unlawfully withdrawn and that my
correct party affiliation should be .................... instead of .................... and request that
the party affiliation be corrected in the statewide voter registration system. My
correct affiliation was made on or before .................... (date).

Dated ....................

Signed ....................

Subscribed and sworn to before me this ........... day of ..............., 20....

..................................................................

Election Judge or County Clerk

County ......................................................

Legislative History

Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 654, � 2, effective January 1, 1993. L. 93: (3) amended, p. 1765, � 1, effective June 6. L. 99: (1) and (2) amended, p. 159, � 5, effective August 4. L. 2016: (1) and (4) amended, (SB 16-142), ch. 173, p. 571, � 16, effective May 18. L. 2021: (1), (3), and (4) amended, (SB 21-250), ch. 282, p. 1634, � 9, effective June 21.