First Time Voters who wish to register by mail should complete the Voter Registration and Mail-In Ballot Application.  Identification is required.  Colorado law requires identification at the polls and for first time voters who vote by Mail-In-Ballot.  Types of approved ID may be found on the Secretary of State’s website.   You may also speak to the Secretary of State Election Division representative at 303-894-2200 or you may contact your County Clerk and Recorder’s office for information.

 

Repeat Voters who which to use Vote By Mail permanently should complete the Mail-In-Ballot Application that must be received by the County Clerk’s Office by close of business on Tuesday, the seventh day proceeding Election Day.  Mail-In-Ballots may be obtained IN PERSON at the County Clerk’s Office until close of business on the Friday proceeding Election Day.

 

After the County Clerk and Recorder receives your completed applicaton or letter to receive a Permanent Mail-In-Ballot, your name will be placed on a list to receive a Mail-In-Ballot for each applicable election.

 

Removing your name from the Permanent Mail-In Ballot.  Once you name is placed on the list to receive a Permanent Mail-In-Ballot, you will remain on the list until one of the following:  

·        You send a letter, or fill out Mail-In Ballot Application and select the check box “Remove my name from the list.” Send the letter o r completed form to your County Clerk’s Election Office.

·        Your Mail-In-Ballot is returned to the County Clerk and Recorder as undeliverable.

·        Your voter registration record is marked “Inactive”.

 

Many bills passed by the state legislature effect the lives and working conditions of AFT Colorado members.  To see progress of legislation during the current session, we have included the legislative update.

 

As a national library of factual information, Project Vote Smart covers your candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings. What would you like to know? Follow this link to access this library of information and the tools to locate your elected officials.

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