Colorado § 1-5-409 - Single cross mark for party slate not permitted.
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§ 1-5-409. Single cross mark for party slate not permitted.
Each office in every election shall be voted upon separately, and no emblem, device, or political party designation shall be used on the official ballot at any election by which an eligible elector may vote for more than one office by placing a single cross mark on the ballot or by writing in the name of any political party or political organization.
Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 714, § 8, effective January 1, 1993.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 1-6-406 as it existed prior to 1992.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. The following annotations include cases decided under former provisions similar to this section.
Prior to the enactment of this section, a cross marked in ink against a party emblem on a ballot indicated a vote for the entire set of candidates of that party, while a cross so marked opposite the name of an individual candidate indicated a vote for that individual. When a ballot was marked against a party emblem, thereby indicating a vote for the entire list of candidates of such party, and was also marked against one or more names of candidates in another list, the ballot was void as to any office so doubly marked. Heiskell v. Landrum, 23 Colo. 65, 46 P. 120 (1896).
And where the voter wrote, in the blank above the list of nominations, the name of a particular party, he indicated an intention to vote for all the candidates of that party named upon the ballot, unless, he manifested a different intention, i.e., by inserting an "X" opposite the name of an opposing candidate, or if there are two or more candidates for the same office, by drawing a line through the name of those, or the one, for whom he did not desire to vote. Bromley v. Hallock, 57 Colo. 148, 140 P. 186 (1914).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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