Colorado § 31-10-1604 - Minority language sample ballots - clerks - mail ballot elections.
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§ 31-10-1604. Minority language sample ballots - clerks - mail ballot elections.
(1) Unless a clerk provides multilingual ballot access pursuant to section 31-10-1603 (1)(a), the clerk of any municipality that satisfies the criteria specified in section 31-10-1603 (1) shall create a minority language sample ballot in any minority language for which a minority language sample ballot is required pursuant to section 1-5-906 for the county in which the municipality partially or wholly exists.
(2) The minority language sample ballot must include all of the same content that is on the English language ballot.
(3) The clerk shall make the minority language sample ballot available and accessible to electors on the municipality's website and at polling places municipality-wide, if used. For an election using mail ballots, the clerk shall notify all qualified electors in the municipality via the mail ballot packet and in each language in which a minority language sample ballot will be created that a minority language sample ballot is available.
Source: L. 2025: Entire part added, (SB 25-001), ch. 178, p. 762, § 14, effective August 6.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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