Colorado § 27-65-122 - Voting in public elections.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 27-65-122 — Voting in public elections., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 27-65-122. Voting in public elections.
Any person receiving evaluation, care, or treatment pursuant to this article 65 must be given the opportunity to exercise the person's right to register and to vote in primary and general elections. The agency or facility providing evaluation, care, or treatment shall assist the person, upon the person's request, to obtain voter registration forms and mail ballots and to comply with any other prerequisite for voting.
Source: L. 2022: Entire article amended with relocations, (HB 22-1256), ch. 451, p. 3197, § 1, effective August 10.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 27-65-120 as it existed prior to 2022.
ANNOTATION
Law reviews. For article, "Patients' Rights vs. Patients' Needs: The Right of the Mentally Ill to Refuse Treatment in Colorado", see 58 Den. L.J. 567 (1981).
Applied in Goedecke v. State Dept. of Insts., 198 Colo. 407, 603 P.2d 123 (1979) (decided prior to 2010 amendments to this article).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 27-65-122 ("Voting in public elections.") is part of the Colorado Revised Statutes, the codified statutory law of Colorado. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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