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Colorado Statutes § 1-7-504 Spoiled ballot or ballot cardVersion dated Oct. 30, 2024

Statute Text

In polling locations in which voting is on a ballot or ballot card, no person, except an election judge as authorized by the designated election official, shall remove a spoiled ballot or ballot card from the polling location before the close of the polls. Any eligible elector who spoils a ballot or ballot card may successively obtain others, one at a time, not exceeding three in all, upon returning each spoiled ballot or ballot card. The spoiled ballots or ballot cards thus returned shall be immediately canceled and shall be preserved and returned to the designated election official as provided in section 1-7-701 . Nothing in this section prohibits an elector from obtaining a replacement ballot pursuant to section 1-7.5-107 .

History

Amended by 2013 Ch. 185 , § 73 , eff. 5/10/2013 .

L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 746, § 9, effective January 1, 1993. L. 2013: Entire section amended, (HB 13-1303), ch. 185, p. 722, § 73, effective May 10.

Editor's Note

This section is similar to former § 1-7-504 as it existed prior to 1992.