Colorado Statutes § 1-7.5-113.5 Voting at county jails or detention centers - definitionVersion dated Oct. 30, 2024
This is an older version of § 1-7.5-113.5 Voting at county jails or detention centers - definition which we archived on October 30, 2024.
Statute Text
(1)
Each county clerk and recorder shall make efforts to coordinate with the county sheriff or the county sheriff's designee at each county jail or detention center to facilitate voting for all confined eligible electors.
(2)
The election plan required by section
1-7.5-105
must include the following information:
(a)
How the county clerk and recorder will provide each county jail or detention center with voter information materials consistent with the materials provided to nonconfined eligible electors, including at a minimum a list of acceptable forms of identification under section
1-1-104
(19.5) and the information required by sections
1-40-124.5
and
1-40-125
;
(b)
The process by which the county clerk and the sheriff or the sheriff's designee will facilitate voter registration and delivery and retrieval of mail ballots for confined eligible electors;
(c)
In counties that have issued electronic tablets to or made electronic tablets available to confined eligible electors, the process by which the county clerk and recorder and the sheriff or the sheriff's designee will facilitate voter registration, ballot delivery, and ballot return using electronic tablets issued to confined eligible electors. The election plan must include the process for how confined eligible electors will be provided access to register and vote without charge and in a confidential manner; and
(d)
The number of confined eligible voters who registered to vote in the prior year and the number of confined eligible voters who voted in the last November election.
History
Amended by 2023 Ch. 399 , § 36 , eff. 6/6/2023 .
Added by 2021 Ch. 282 , § 40 , eff. 6/21/2021 .
Editor's Note
Section 85 of chapter 282 (SB 21-250), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act adding this section applies to elections conducted on or after June 21, 2021.