Colorado § 1-2-227 Custody and preservation of records

Colorado Statutes

§ 1-2-227 — Custody and preservation of records

Colorado § 1-2-227

Title 01Elections

Art.Qualifications and Registration of Electors

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-2-227 (2026).

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(1)(a) Registration records must be left in the custody of the county clerk and recorder, who is responsible for them. Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (1), the oaths or affirmations, applications for affidavit registration, federal postcard applications, applications for change of residence or change of name, and other papers provided for by this part 2 shall be preserved by the county clerk and recorder and shall not be destroyed until after the next general election. Such registration records, whether paper or digital, are public records subject to examination by any person, and such person has the right to make copies of the records during office hours.

(b)A county clerk and recorder may destroy paper voter registration records as soon as they have bee

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(1) (a) Registration records
must be left in the custody of the county clerk and recorder, who is responsible for
them. Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (1), the oaths or
affirmations, applications for affidavit registration, federal postcard applications,
applications for change of residence or change of name, and other papers provided
for by this part 2 shall be preserved by the county clerk and recorder and shall not
be destroyed until after the next general election. Such registration records,
whether paper or digital, are public records subject to examination by any person,
and such person has the right to make copies of the records during office hours.

(b) A county clerk and recorder may destroy paper voter registration records
as soon as they have been digitally recorded in the statewide voter registration
system.

(2) The voter information provided by a preregistrant who will not turn
eighteen years of age by the date of the next election shall be kept confidential in
the same manner as, and using the programs developed for, information that is kept
confidential pursuant to section 24-72-204 (3.5). Nothing in this subsection (2) shall
be construed to require any request, application, or fee for such confidentiality.
When the preregistrant will be eighteen years of age on the date of the next
election, such information is no longer confidential under this subsection (2).

Legislative History

Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 661, � 2, effective January 1, 1993. L. 2013: Entire section amended, (HB 13-1135), ch. 184, p. 679, � 8, effective August 7. L. 2016: (1) amended, (SB 16-142), ch. 173, p. 572, � 18, effective May 18. L. 2019: (2) amended, (HB 19-1278), ch. 326, p. 3007, � 8, effective August 2. L. 2023: (2) amended, (SB 23-276), ch. 399, p. 2375, � 6, effective June 6.