Colorado Statutes § 1-7-501 Judges open ballot box firstVersion dated Oct. 30, 2024

This is an older version of § 1-7-501 Judges open ballot box first which we archived on October 30, 2024.

Statute Text

Immediately before proclamation is made of the opening of the polls, the election judges shall open the ballot box in the presence of those assembled and shall turn it upside down so as to empty it of anything that may be in it and then shall lock it securely. No ballot box shall be reopened until the time for counting the ballots or ballot cards therein.

History

L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 745, § 9, effective January 1, 1993.

Editor's Note

This section is similar to former § 1-7-501 as it existed prior to 1992.