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Colorado · Through Colorado Revised Statutes 2026

C.R.S. § 31-10-1603: Multilingual ballot access - general provisions - clerks.

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  1. Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL
  2. Article 10 - Municipal Election Code
  3. Part 16 - MULTILINGUAL BALLOT ACCESS

(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.

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