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Requires the Secretary of State (SOS) and county clerks to provide multilingual ballot access in counties where either 2,000 citizens or 2.5 percent of citizens ages 18 and up speak English less than very well. The SOS is required to establish a multilingual hotline. The SOS and county clerks in affected counties are required to provide minority language sample ballots.

Creates independent redistricting commissions to draw boundaries for county commissioner districts.  Only applies to a few counties.

Allow any registered elector (voter) to ask for a manual recount of an election, but require the elector to pay any costs of the recount.

Postponed indefinitely in House State Affairs on March 29, 2021.

Gives county clerks authorization and key suport to conduct instant-runnoff voting (single-winner ranked choice voting) elections in municipalities.

Requires documentary proof-of-citizenship provided to election administrators in order to to vote.  Requires that this proof be noted in the statewide voter database.

On March 29th, sponsor Rep Luck requested that the House State Affairs Cmte PI the bill, and the Cmte complied 9-2.

Audit a 20% sample of registered voters, unduplicated over 5 years, in each county.

PI'd in House State Affairs on a party line vote 7-4 on March 29, 2021.

Allows a person who is nominated as a candidate for elected office who is also nominated as a candidate for lieutenant governor to run for both offices. If the person wins the election for both offices, the person must resign from one of them, creating a vacancy to be filled in accordance with existing law on vacancies.

Creates an information technology and infrastructure
advisement committee on Colorado elections. The
committee's purpose is to evaluate and make recommendations to the
secretary of state on standards, security, reliability, and integrity of electronic voting systems.

The bill was postponed indefinitely 6-4 on March 29.

Annual reports each year, starting March 2022 and ending Sept 2025.

Creates an 18-month bipartisan election commission in the department of state, a 5-member panel whose main function is to make recommendations to the secretary of state and the general assembly concerning the manner in which a comprehensive audit of the state's election processes is to be conducted.

The bill was postponed indefinitely 6-4 on March 29, 2021.

The League of Women Voters is dedicated to Empowering Voters and Defending Democracy.  We devote considerable efforts to voter outreach and issue education. Voters, often pressed for time, deserve a balanced presentation of tax revenue measures, and their impact on themselves as well as society.  This bill improves upon what is now given in the ballot title language and in the “blue book” ballot information booklet in ways that should serve to increase voter understanding of the implications of their vote for or against ballot measures that change revenue.

PI'd in Senate State Affairs Committee on Feb 23, 2021.

Commencing with the 2022 general election, and subject to an
elector's choice to receive and cast all ballots by mail, the bill requires
that all registered electors cast their ballot in person for each general
election at a polling location within the county of the elector's residence.
The number and siting of polling locations within a county must be
designated by the county clerk and recorder.

Under the bill, voting in person is limited to a 7-day period
commencing 6 days before and culminating the day of the election.
During this one-week period, polling locations must remain open for
voting from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day during the week. A registered
elector may cast a ballot in person at any time during which polling
locations are open during the one-week period.
Each county clerk and recorder shall institute procedures by which
a registered elector may choose to vote by mail ballot by affirmatively
requesting that the elector would like to receive and cast a ballot by mail
for all forthcoming general elections.
The bill requires all ballots to be counted not later than the day of
the election. A ballot is not counted if it is received by a county clerk and
recorder after the polls have closed on election day. No preliminary
results of any race contested in the election may be disclosed by the
county clerk and recorder prior to the dissemination of the final results of
a race on or after election day.

Requires changes regarding witness signatures when the voter signs with a mark. The witness’s voter identification number must be written on the return envelope, the witness must be registered in the same county as the voter, and the county clerk is required to verify the witness’s signature.

ModificationTo Local Government Election Codes

Pertains to special districts

Passed out of Senate State Affairs with amendments (Yay!) on a 5-0 vote on March 23.

Passed through Senate Cmte on a 4-1 vote on March 18, 2021.  On April 9, 2021 Senate laid over SB177 to August 2021, effectively killing the bill.

This bill modifies election statutes to add foreign influenced corporations to the list of entities that cannot interfere in Colorado elections. Currently the list includes foreign governments and foreign corporations. Much of the bill is dedicated to defining a foreign influenced corporation based on a percentage of control by foreign owners.

The bill also expands the group of persons and entities currentlyprohibited from expending money on an independent expenditure inconnection with an election in the state to include a foreign-influencedSENATE SPONSORSHIPBridges,HOUSE SPONSORSHIPWoodrow,Shading denotes HOUSE amendment. Double underlining denotes SENATE amendment.Capital letters or bold & italic numbers indicate new material to be added to existing statute.Dashes through the words indicate deletions from existing statute.

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Heard in Senate State Affairs on April 6.  Passed to Senate floor on a party-line vote (3-2) with almost no discussion except for the witness testimony [6 Pro, 3 Con, 3 Amend].  The one amendment did not address LWV concerns.

Passed 2nd reading on April 9 with a voice vote and no amendments or discussion.  Passed 3rd reading on April 12 with 22 for, 13 against and 11 more people joining as co-sponsors.

Current law allows a voter with a disability to use an electronic voting device that produces a paper record to vote in a mail ballot election. If a voter receives a ballot through an electronic voting device via the disabled-voter law, the voter is required to print the ballot to return it to the applicable election official. The bill allows a voter to either print the ballot or return the ballot by electronic transmission if printing the ballot is not feasible.

Omnibus elections bill - including more digital upload of signatures, updated recall language, permanent allowance for electronic assemblies for political party meetings, no longer allowing presidential candidates to pay a fee (not collect signatures) to be on the CO ballot