C.R.S. Section 1-2-222
Errors in recording of affiliation

(1)

If an elector goes to the elector’s legal voting place to vote at any primary election or to the office of the county clerk and recorder and contends that an error has been made in the recording of the elector’s affiliation in the statewide voter registration system or that the affiliation has been unlawfully changed or withdrawn, the election judges or the county clerk and recorder shall allow the elector to make and sign an affidavit, which shall be substantially in the form provided in subsection (4) of this section. Any election judge or the county clerk and recorder has authority to administer the oath and take the acknowledgment of the elector’s affidavit. When the affidavit is completed, the county clerk and recorder shall make the change as specified in the affidavit using the date provided by the elector on the affidavit as the new affiliation date.
(2)(Deleted by amendment, L. 99, p. 159, § 5, effective August 4, 1999.)(3) For the purposes of determining the eligibility of candidates for nomination in accordance with sections 1-4-601 (4)(a) and 1-4-801 (4), the eligibility of persons to vote at any precinct caucus, assembly, or convention in accordance with section 1-3-101, or the eligibility of persons to sign petitions in accordance with section 1-4-801 (2), the date of declaration of the party affiliation of the elector must be the date which the elector alleges by affidavit to be the correct date of affiliation.

(4)

Printed affidavit forms must be furnished to the election judges of the various election precincts. The affidavit form must be substantially as follows:
STATE OF COLORADO)
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ss.
County of ...........................................................)
I, ...................., believing an error has been made as to the recording of my party affiliation, or a change unlawfully made, or a withdrawal unlawfully made in the statewide voter registration system, do solemnly swear, or affirm, that the party affiliation as now shown in the statewide voter registration system is an error, or has been unlawfully changed, or has been unlawfully withdrawn and that my correct party affiliation should be .................... instead of .................... and request that the party affiliation be corrected in the statewide voter registration system. My correct affiliation was made on or before .................... (date).
Dated ....................
Signed ....................
Subscribed and sworn to before me this ........... day of ..............., 20....
..................................................................
Election Judge or County Clerk
County ......................................................

Source: Section 1-2-222 — Errors in recording of affiliation, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-01.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

1‑2‑101
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Rules for determining residence 1‑2‑103
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Additional qualifications 1‑2‑201
Registration required - deadlines - additional identifying information to be provided by first-time registrants 1‑2‑202
Registration by county clerk and recorder 1‑2‑202.5
Online voter registration - online changes in elector information 1‑2‑203
Registration on Indian reservations 1‑2‑204
Questions answered by elector - rules 1‑2‑205
Self-affirmation made by elector 1‑2‑210
Registration for congressional vacancy elections 1‑2‑210.5
Registration of and voting by persons in custody of division of youth services - definitions 1‑2‑213
Registration at driver’s license examination facilities 1‑2‑213.3
Transfer of new voter registration records from department of revenue 1‑2‑213.5
State institutions of higher education - electronic voter registration option - information to students 1‑2‑215
Certificate of registration 1‑2‑216
Change of address 1‑2‑217.7
Registration on or immediately prior to election day - locations - rules - legislative declaration 1‑2‑218
Change of name 1‑2‑218.5
Declaration of affiliation 1‑2‑219
Changing or withdrawing declaration of affiliation 1‑2‑222
Errors in recording of affiliation 1‑2‑223
Names transferred when precinct boundaries changed 1‑2‑227
Custody and preservation of records 1‑2‑228
Residence - false information - penalty 1‑2‑301
Centralized statewide registration system - secretary of state to maintain computerized statewide voter registration list - county computer records - agreement to match information - definition 1‑2‑302
Maintenance of computerized statewide voter registration list - confidentiality 1‑2‑302.5
Change of address search - rules 1‑2‑303
Multiple registration - most recent date of registration determines precinct in which allowed to vote 1‑2‑305
Postelection procedures - voting history - definitions 1‑2‑401
Legislative declaration 1‑2‑402
Registration by high school deputy registrars - rules 1‑2‑403
Training and registration materials for high school deputy registrars - processing applications 1‑2‑501
Form for mail and agency registration - procedures for registration by mail for first-time electors - additional identifying information to be provided by first-time registrants 1‑2‑502
Form for agency registration 1‑2‑502.5
Transfer of voter registration information to secretary of state 1‑2‑502.7
Voter registration agencies - reports - transfer of records for voter registration 1‑2‑503
Availability of forms 1‑2‑504
Voter registration agencies 1‑2‑505
Services at voter registration agencies - services to persons with disabilities 1‑2‑506
Prohibitions 1‑2‑507
Transmittal of voter registration applications - when 1‑2‑508
Receipt of voter registration applications - effective dates - legislative intent 1‑2‑509
Reviewing voter registration applications - notification 1‑2‑510
Public disclosure of voter registration activities 1‑2‑511
Prosecutions of violations 1‑2‑601
Withdrawal of registration 1‑2‑602
Deceased electors 1‑2‑603
Notification that elector has moved and registered in different county 1‑2‑604
Cancellation of electors with multiple registrations 1‑2‑605
Canceling registration - procedures 1‑2‑606
Cancellation by reason of criminal conviction in federal court 1‑2‑701
Registration of voter registration drive - training - rules 1‑2‑702
Conducting a voter registration drive 1‑2‑703
Violations - penalties
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Current through Fall 2024

§ 1-2-222’s source at colorado​.gov