Colorado § 1-6-103 - Recommendations by county chairperson.

§ 1-6-103. Recommendations by county chairperson.

(1) (a) No later than the first Tuesday of April in even-numbered years, the county chairperson of each major political party in the county shall certify to the county clerk and recorder the names and addresses of registered electors recommended to serve as election judges from the county.

(b) Repealed.

(2) The county chairperson, or, if there is no county chairperson, the committeepersons who submitted the list of registered electors in accordance with section 1-6-102 (2) shall designate the order of preference of the names of the registered electors recommended to serve as election judges. The county clerk and recorder shall select election judges in the county chairperson's, or, if there is no county chairperson, the committeeperson's, order of preference.

(3) In recommending registered electors as election judges, the county chairperson may select only names from the list submitted by the precinct committeepersons. However, the county chairperson may recommend additional registered electors to the county clerk and recorder if the precinct committeepersons do not provide enough names to the county chairperson.

(4) and (5) (Deleted by amendment, L. 98, p. 576, § 3, effective April 30, 1998.)

Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 724, § 8, effective January 1, 1993. L. 98: Entire section amended, p. 576, § 3, effective April 30. L. 2002: (1) amended, p. 134, § 6, effective March 27. L. 2024: (1)(a) and (2) amended, (SB 24-210), ch. 468, p. 3250, § 22, effective June 6.

Editor's note: (1) This section is similar to former § 1-5-107 as it existed prior to 1992.

(2) Subsection (1)(b)(II) provided for the repeal of subsection (1)(b), effective July 1, 2002. (See L. 2002, p. 134.)

ANNOTATION

Annotator's note. The following annotations include cases decided under former provisions similar to this section.

Section applies to municipal elections. The right of the elector to be safeguarded in the exercise of his franchise - a right conferred by the sovereign authority of the state - carries with it the corresponding duty, on the part of the state, to furnish all needed protection; this is of public concern, therefore, even municipal elections are within the provisions of this section requiring the county chairman to submit a list of names to serve as election judges. Mauff v. People, 52 Colo. 562, 123 P. 101 (1912) (decided under former law).

Requirement that persons serving as election judges must be affiliated with one of two major political parties does not violate right to freedom of speech and association or right to equal protection since the statute is rationally related to the legitimate ends of efficiently running an election by pairing Democrats and Republicans as election monitors to provide the appearance of propriety. MacGuire v. Houston, 717 P.2d 948 (Colo. 1986).

Applied in Nichol v. Bair, 626 P.2d 761 (Colo. App. 1981).