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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 1 - Elections » Article 13 - Election Offenses » Part 7 - Offenses - Conduct of Elections

§ 1-13-701. Interference With Election Official

Any person who, at any election provided by law, interferes in any manner with any election official in the discharge of the election official’s duty or who induces any election official to violate or refuse to comply with the election official’s duty or any law regulating the same upon conviction shall be punished as provided […]

§ 1-13-702. Interfering With Watcher

Any person who intentionally interferes with any watcher while the watcher is discharging the watcher’s duties set forth in section 1-7-108 (3) upon conviction shall be punished as provided in section 1-13-111. Source: L. 80: Entire article R&RE, p. 433, § 1, effective January 1, 1981. L. 2003: Entire section amended, p. 1981, § 1, […]

§ 1-13-704. Unlawfully Refusing Ballot or Permitting to Vote

If at any election provided by law any judge of election willfully and maliciously refuses or neglects to receive the ballot of any registered elector who has taken or offered to take the oath prescribed by section 1-9-204 or knowingly and willfully permits any person to vote who is not entitled to vote at such […]

§ 1-13-704.5. Voting by Persons Not Entitled to Vote – Penalty

(1) Any person voting in any election provided by law knowing that he or she is not entitled to vote in such election commits a class 5 felony and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401, C.R.S. (2) This section shall be enforced without regard to race, religion, gender, ethnicity, or national origin. Source: […]

§ 1-13-705. Personating Elector

Any person who falsely personates any elector and votes at any election provided by law under the name of such elector commits a class 1 misdemeanor. Source: L. 80: Entire article R&RE, p. 433, § 1, effective January 1, 1981. L. 95: Entire section amended, p. 853, § 85, effective July 1. L. 2021: Entire […]

§ 1-13-706. Delivering and Receiving Ballots at Polls

(1) No voter shall receive an official ballot from any person except one of the judges of election having charge of the ballots, nor shall any person other than such judge deliver an official ballot to such voter. (2) No person except a judge of election shall receive from any voter a ballot prepared for […]

§ 1-13-707. Inducing Defective Ballot

Any person who causes any deceit to be practiced with intent to fraudulently induce a voter to deposit a defective ballot so as to have the ballot thrown out and not counted upon conviction shall be punished as provided in section 1-13-111. Source: L. 80: Entire article R&RE, p. 434, § 1, effective January 1, […]

§ 1-13-707.5. Tampering With Ballot Box

Any person who wilfully tampers with or who, except as provided by law, wilfully breaks open any ballot box, including a drop-off location receptacle, is guilty of a class 5 felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401, C.R.S. Source: L. 2014: Entire section added, (SB 14-161), ch. 160, p. […]

§ 1-13-708. Tampering With Voting Equipment

Any person who tampers with any electronic or electromechanical voting equipment before, during, or after any election provided by law with intent to change the tabulation of votes thereon to reflect other than an accurate accounting is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-501, […]

§ 1-13-709. Voting in Wrong Polling Location

Any person who, at any election provided by law, knowingly votes or offers to vote in any polling location in which he or she is not qualified to vote upon conviction shall be punished as provided in section 1-13-111. Source: L. 80: Entire article R&RE, p. 434, § 1, effective January 1, 1981. L. 95: […]

§ 1-13-709.5. Residence – False Information – Penalty

Any person who votes by knowingly giving false information regarding the elector’s place of present residence commits a class 5 felony and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401, C.R.S. Source: L. 96: Entire section added, p. 1764, § 51, effective July 1. L. 2002: Entire section amended, p. 1464, § 9, effective October […]

§ 1-13-709.6. Residence – Conspiring to Give False Information – Penalty

Any person who knowingly aids or abets an elector in planning or committing the offense of knowingly giving false information regarding the elector’s place of present residence described in section 1-13-709.5 commits a class 6 felony and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401, C.R.S. Source: L. 2014: Entire section added, (SB 14-161), ch. […]

§ 1-13-710. Voting Twice – Penalty

(1) (a) No voter shall, with the intent of voting more than once in an election: (I) Cast more than one ballot; (II) Offer to cast a ballot knowing that a ballot the voter previously returned was received; or (III) During a federal election, vote in this state and another state. (b) A voter who […]

§ 1-13-711. Interference With Voter While Voting

Any person who interferes with any voter who is inside the immediate voting area or is marking a ballot or operating a voting device or electronic voting device at any election provided by law upon conviction shall be punished as provided in section 1-13-111. Source: L. 80: Entire article R&RE, p. 434, § 1, effective […]

§ 1-13-712. Disclosing or Identifying Vote

(1) (a) No voter shall place any mark upon his or her ballot by means of which it can be identified as the one voted by him or her, and no other mark shall be placed on the ballot by any person to identify it after it has been prepared for voting. (b) Any voter […]

§ 1-13-713. Intimidation

It is unlawful for any person directly or indirectly, by himself or herself or by any other person in his or her behalf, to impede, prevent, or otherwise interfere with the free exercise of the elective franchise of any elector or to compel, induce, or prevail upon any elector either to give or refrain from […]

§ 1-13-714. Electioneering – Removing and Return of Ballot – Definition

(1) (a) No person shall do any electioneering on the day of any election, or during the time when voting is permitted for any election, within any polling location or in any public street or room or in any public manner within one hundred feet of any building in which a polling location is located, […]

§ 1-13-715. Liquor in or Near Voter Service and Polling Center

(1) It is unlawful for any election official or other person to introduce into any polling location, or to use therein, or to offer to another for use therein, at any time while any election is in progress or the result thereof is being ascertained by the counting of the ballots, any intoxicating malt, spirituous, […]