Colorado § 31-10-1603 - Multilingual ballot access - general provisions - clerks.
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§ 31-10-1603. Multilingual ballot access - general provisions - clerks.
(1) If a municipality exists partially or wholly within a county covered by the multilingual ballot requirements of section 1-5-905 (1) and the municipality has a population of at least three thousand people, a clerk is required to provide multilingual ballot access in one of the following ways for any municipal election held on or after January 1, 2027:
(a) Ensuring that each ballot and sample ballot includes all ballot content in English and all ballot content fully translated into any minority language for which a minority language sample or in-person ballot is required pursuant to section 1-5-906 for the county in which the municipality partially or wholly exists; or
(b) Creating a minority language sample ballot pursuant to section 31-10-1604 and providing an in-person minority language ballot pursuant to section 31-10-1605.
(2) The clerk shall ensure that any translation provided as required by this part 16 is performed by one or more qualified translators.
Source: L. 2025: Entire part added, (SB 25-001), ch. 178, p. 761, § 14, effective August 6.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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