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Colorado Statutes § 1-13-706 Delivering and receiving ballots at polls

⤴ Up to Article 13: Election Offenses

Statute Text

(1) No voter shall receive an official ballot from any person except one of the judges of election having charge of the ballots, nor shall any person other than such judge deliver an official ballot to such voter.
(2) No person except a judge of election shall receive from any voter a ballot prepared for voting.
(3) Any voter who does not vote the ballot received by him or her shall return his or her ballot to the judge from whom he or she received the same before leaving the polling location; except that nothing in this section prohibits an elector from obtaining an original or replacement ballot pursuant to section 1-5-102.9 (3)(j) .
(4) Each violation of the provisions of this section upon conviction shall be punished as provided in section 1-13-111 .

History

Amended by 2021 Ch. 462 , § 28 , eff. 3/1/2022 .

Amended by 2013 Ch. 185 , § 118 , eff. 5/10/2013 .

L. 80: Entire article R&RE, p. 433, § 1, effective 1/1/1981 . L. 2013: (3) amended, (HB 13-1303), ch. 747, p. 747, § 118, effective May 10.

Editor's Note

(1) This section is similar to former §§ 1-13-139 and 1-30-114(2) as they existed prior to 1980.
(2) Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.

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