Colorado § 1-7-301 - Judges open ballot box first.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 1-7-301 — Judges open ballot box first., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 1-7-301. Judges open ballot box first.
Immediately before proclamation is made of the opening of the polls, the election judges shall open the ballot box in the presence of those assembled and shall turn it upside down so as to empty it of anything that may be in it and then shall lock it securely. No ballot box shall be reopened until the time for counting the ballots therein.
Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 739, § 9, effective January 1, 1993.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 1-7-301 as it existed prior to 1992.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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