C.R.S. Section 1-2-227
Custody and preservation of records

(1)

Intentionally left blank —Ed.

(a)

Registration records must be left in the custody of the county clerk and recorder, who is responsible for them. Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (1), the oaths or affirmations, applications for affidavit registration, federal postcard applications, applications for change of residence or change of name, and other papers provided for by this part 2 shall be preserved by the county clerk and recorder and shall not be destroyed until after the next general election. Such registration records, whether paper or digital, are public records subject to examination by any person, and such person has the right to make copies of the records during office hours.

(b)

A county clerk and recorder may destroy paper voter registration records as soon as they have been digitally recorded in the statewide voter registration system.

(2)

The voter information provided by a preregistrant who will not turn eighteen years of age by the date of the next election shall be kept confidential in the same manner as, and using the programs developed for, information that is kept confidential pursuant to section 24-72-204 (3.5). Nothing in this subsection (2) shall be construed to require any request, application, or fee for such confidentiality. When the preregistrant will be eighteen years of age on the date of the next election, such information is no longer confidential under this subsection (2).

Source: Section 1-2-227 — Custody and preservation of records, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-01.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

1‑2‑101
Qualifications for registration - preregistration 1‑2‑102
Rules for determining residence 1‑2‑103
Military service - students - inmates - persons with behavioral or mental health disorders - confinement 1‑2‑104
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
Green check means up to date. Up to date

Current through Fall 2024

§ 1-2-227’s source at colorado​.gov