Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-503

Current through Chapter 123 of the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 1-5-503 - Arrangement of voting equipment or voting booths and ballot boxes

The voting equipment or voting booths and the ballot box shall be situated in the polling location so as to be in plain view of the election officials and watchers. No person other than the election officials and those admitted for the purpose of voting are permitted within the immediate voting area, which is considered as within six feet of the voting equipment or voting booths and the ballot box, except by authority of the election judges or the designated election official, and then only when necessary to keep order and enforce the law.

C.R.S. § 1-5-503

Amended by 2013 Ch. 185,§ 45, eff. 5/10/2013.

L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 717, § 8, effective January 1, 1993. L. 2004: Entire section amended, p. 1344, § 8, effective May 28. L. 2013: Entire section amended, (HB 13-1303), ch. 185, p. 712, § 45, effective May 10.

This section is similar to former § 1-6-503 as it existed prior to 1992.

(1) For the legislative declaration contained in the 2004 act amending this section, see section 1 of chapter 334, Session Laws of Colorado 2004. (2) In 2013, this section was amended by the "Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act". For the short title and the legislative declaration, see sections 1 and 2 of chapter 185, Session Laws of Colorado 2013.