Colorado § 1-40-114 - Petitions - not election materials - no bilingual language requirement.
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§ 1-40-114. Petitions - not election materials - no bilingual language requirement.
The general assembly hereby determines that initiative petitions are not election materials or information covered by the federal "Voting Rights Act of 1965", and therefore are not required to be printed in any language other than English to be circulated in any county in Colorado.
Source: L. 93: Entire article amended with relocations, p. 685, § 1, effective May 4.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 1-40-107.5 (3) as it existed prior to 1993, and the former § 1-40-114 was relocated. For a detailed comparison, see the comparative tables located in the back of the index.
ANNOTATION
Law reviews. For comment, "Montero v. Meyer: Official English, Initiative Petitions and the Voting Rights Act", see 66 Den. U. L. Rev. 619 (1989). For comment, "Another View of Montero v. Meyer and the English-Only Movement: Giving Language Prejudice the Sanction of the Law", see 66 Den. U. L. Rev. 633 (1989).
Annotator's note. The following annotations include cases decided under former provisions similar to this section.
Minority language provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act not applicable to initiative petitions. With respect to initiative petitions, electoral process to which the minority language provisions of the Voting Rights Act would apply did not commence under state law until the measure was certified as qualified for placement on the ballot. Furthermore, the signing of petitions did not constitute "voting" under the act. Montero v. Meyer, 861 F.2d 603 (10th Cir. 1988) (1989) (decided prior to enactment of this section).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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